英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Ganges 恒河—5

 From their origins of melting glacier¹ in the high Himalayas, thewaters of Ganges descend² more than 12,000 feet, carving³ their way throughprecipitous gorges⁴. There is half a mile drop. Although the Ganges is steepedin history and religious tradition, in modern India it's not just seen assomething to be worshiped. Very nice to meet you, looking you will be *. Welcome to D, land of thelords. Thank you. D is a Ganges river guide, 40 years ago few Indians couldafford to go on holiday, now there are around 250 million middle class Indians,on their holidays they are finding new ways of celebrating and enjoying theriver. look in the water, rafting on the Ganges, it's very calm here, I expectit isn't all like that. The first rapids on this stretch of the river wasrelatively gentle, it's nicknamed good morning.

1 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。

2 descend   

vt./vi.传下来，下来，下降

参考例句：

• I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
• We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。

3 carving   

n.雕刻品，雕花

参考例句：

• All the furniture in the room had much carving.房间里所有的家具上都有许多雕刻。
• He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.他在老家学会了木雕手艺。

4 gorges   

n.山峡，峡谷( gorge的名词复数 )；咽喉v.（用食物把自己）塞饱，填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 )；作呕

参考例句：

• The explorers were confronted with gorges(that were)almost impassable and rivers(that were)often unfordable. 探险人员面临着几乎是无路可通的峡谷和常常是无法渡过的河流。 来自辞典例句
• We visited the Yangtse Gorges last summer. 去年夏天我们游历了长江三峡。 来自辞典例句