英语听力：探索发现 2012-04-27 荒野求生:冰岛—7

 I’m in Iceland, tackling the dangers you’d come across if you got stranded¹ here. But a deep glacial river is blocking my route. My only option is to jump. Ok.

 

Freezing water can send my body into shock. I’m also rapidly losing heat and that’s making me weaker by the second. Now I’ve got to get into hot geothermal pools to get my body temperature back to normal. 

 

And that is just biting cold. God. My hands and all my legs just feel numb². Anyway. And I just know I’ve just got to keep every limb moving until I reach those pools. Uh, my hat. The air is literally³ refrigerating my body. In extreme cold, my body acts to protect the brain and heart by draining blood away from my hands and feet and that makes running even harder. 

 

There’s a hot pool. And look at this, you can actually see that. It’s bubbling. That is a boiling temperature. And there’s no way I’m getting into that. I’m feeling my arms and legs beginning to shut down. I need to think quickly now. You see this stream? It’s just running out of that hot mud pool. And all I’m doing here is damming up this little stream and then hopefully create a bit of a pool for me to get in.

 

1 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

2 numb   

adj.麻木的，失去感觉的；v.使麻木

参考例句：

• His fingers were numb with cold.他的手冻得发麻。
• Numb with cold,we urged the weary horses forward.我们冻得发僵，催着疲惫的马继续往前走。

3 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。