英语听力：探索发现 2012-05-11 荒野求生:冰岛—13

 Now I’m on the lookout¹ for fuel for a nice warm fire. There’re loads of these birch trees around here, and these are what I’m looking for. I can tell they’re birch just because of the way they’re silver-limbed. This time of year in the winter, all the leaves have fallen off. But it’s the leaves underneath² them that I’m after. And these are gonna make good tinder for my fire. 

 

I’m going to need loads of wood to keep me warm. I’m just building up like a wall of rocks around it, as well, just to protect it, and then keep building it up. I can just feel really nice warmth in my hands. It's nice. So far, I've shown you how to cope with everything Iceland might throw you. But its deadly lava³ tunnels might be one thing too many. This has just got an awful lot harder.

 

Last night, I laid traps for ptarmigan, a type of grouse⁴ found in Iceland, and I'm hoping I get lucky. So, I want to build this up and then go and check my traps. No, nothing. Nothing in this. You know, it's no great surprise. My past experience says, realistically, to get things in snares⁵, I need to set a really good number of these. But so much of survival is just about keep trying and having the energy to make this sort of things even when you're tired and you don't really feel like it. If you'd managed to trap a ptarmigan, this is what you’d do with it. I don’t need to pluck this, there's a faster way. I just cut the head and wings off and peel the skin at the breast back. All the skin will come off. And then just get my hands in and pull all of its guts⁶ all the way down the back. And peel all of this back. I can't wait to eat this.

1 lookout   

n.注意，前途，瞭望台

参考例句：

• You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
• It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来，公司的前景可就不妙了。

2 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

3 lava   

n.熔岩，火山岩

参考例句：

• The lava flowed down the sides of the volcano.熔岩沿火山坡面涌流而下。
• His anger spilled out like lava.他的愤怒像火山爆发似的迸发出来。

4 grouse   

n.松鸡；v.牢骚，诉苦

参考例句：

• They're shooting grouse up on the moors.他们在荒野射猎松鸡。
• If you don't agree with me,please forget my grouse.如果你的看法不同，请不必介意我的牢骚之言。

5 snares   

n.陷阱( snare的名词复数 )；圈套；诱人遭受失败（丢脸、损失等）的东西；诱惑物v.用罗网捕捉，诱陷，陷害( snare的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He shoots rabbits and he sets snares for them. 他射杀兔子，也安放陷阱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I am myself fallen unawares into the snares of death. 我自己不知不觉跌进了死神的陷阱。 来自辞典例句

6 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》