英语听力：探索发现 2012-04-22 荒野求生:冰岛—5

 A snow hole like this will keep you out of the wind. The next thing I need do is to dig a bit of a pit down. And the reason I do that is that cold air sinks. So I don’t want this cold air around me. So I want it to go down into what they call a cold well down here. 

 

What I want to do now is just block up a bit of this entrance here. It’s tempting¹ to seal the entrance completely to keep the wind out. But that can be lethal². Ok, what I’ve done here is just put some of the blocks over the top. And this will consolidate³ down, left a bit of a ventilation hole. I can put my hand out here. And it’s blowing hard. It’s snowing. I need to give it a light covering. But I need to make sure to keep putting my hands through, keep that ventilation hole. Otherwise, you can suffocate⁴ in these things.

 

Staying hydrated helps keep your body warm. It’s tempting to eat the snow. But that would just cool my core body temperature down even more. So what you need to do is melt the snow with your body heat. As soon as you see a break in the weather, you need to get off the glacier⁵ fast. You don’t want to be caught in another storm up here.

 

It’s definitely less windy than it was yesterday. It’s still pretty windy. But actually, I see the sun over there which is a good sign. You’ll need to find your way and you can use the sun. But in Iceland, the sun doesn’t rise in the east and set in the west. It’s more like southeast and southwest. So that’s southeast now. The sun’s just come out. It means southwest is over there. Glaciers⁶ are full of these ice gullies. And they can be dangerous. All of this snow here, uh, this is what’s called rotten snow, which means it’s fallen, it’s thawed⁷ and then it’s refrozen. So you get this like crust. It’s really good for walking on. I can just dig my feet in, and get really good holds in it. But the danger on glaciers are crevasses⁸.

1 tempting   

a.诱人的, 吸引人的

参考例句：

• It is tempting to idealize the past. 人都爱把过去的日子说得那么美好。
• It was a tempting offer. 这是个诱人的提议。

2 lethal   

adj.致死的；毁灭性的

参考例句：

• A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
• She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。

3 consolidate   

v.使加固，使加强；(把...)联为一体，合并

参考例句：

• The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
• The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。

4 suffocate   

vt.使窒息，使缺氧，阻碍；vi.窒息，窒息而亡，阻碍发展

参考例句：

• If you shut all the windows,I will suffocate.如果你把窗户全部关起来，我就会闷死。
• The stale air made us suffocate.浑浊的空气使我们感到窒息。

5 glacier   

n.冰川，冰河

参考例句：

• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
• The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。

6 glaciers   

冰河，冰川( glacier的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills. 冰川把丘陵地带冲出一条条山谷。
• It has ice and snow glaciers, rainforests and beautiful mountains. 既有冰川，又有雨林和秀丽的山峰。 来自英语晨读30分（高一）

7 thawed   

解冻

参考例句：

• The little girl's smile thawed the angry old man. 小姑娘的微笑使发怒的老头缓和下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He thawed after sitting at a fire for a while. 在火堆旁坐了一会儿，他觉得暖和起来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 crevasses   

n.破口，崩溃处，裂缝( crevasse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Splays are commonly formed by currents from crevasses in levees. 嗽叭形堆积通常由堤防决口的洪流所形成。 来自辞典例句
• The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses. 冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。 来自辞典例句