一、翻译以下与森林有关的词汇。
文本词汇
trail n. __________________
sunset n. __________________
backcountry n. __________________
path n. __________________
ridge n. __________________
crow n. __________________
shortcut n. __________________
valley n. __________________
canyon n. __________________
chute n. __________________
waterfall n. __________________
crevice n. __________________
ravine n. __________________
laurel n. __________________
boulder n. __________________
helicopter n. __________________
terrain n. __________________
thicket n. __________________
hunt v. __________________
haul v. __________________
peek v. __________________
hike n. & v. __________________
meander v. __________________
trek n. & v. __________________
prickly adj. __________________
sprout v. __________________
descend v. __________________
bushwhack v. __________________
hover v. __________________
vertical adj. __________________
the frigid forest __________________
the snow-dusted mountains __________________
sub-zero temperatures __________________
hop down the hill __________________
拓展词汇
盆地 __________________
小溪 __________________
悬崖 __________________
丛林 __________________
浓雾 __________________
了解地形 __________________
一堆岩石 __________________
几英里外 __________________
二、翻译以下描写森林场景的句子。
文本句子 以适当的形式填空,然后翻译句子。
1. Before long, the canyon __________________ (变窄) to a rock chute.
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2. He looked to his right and saw a 20-foot wall of nearly vertical rock __________________ (缺乏) outcroppings and crevices substantial enough __________________ (帮助) in climbing.
译文:_________________________
3. Eventually, the sun __________________ (滑落) below the mountain ridge behind him and the forest turned __________________ (漆黑的).
译文:_________________________
4. Just after 7, the sky lightened and the thicket around him began __________________ (重新出现).
译文:_________________________
拓展句子 英汉互译。
1. 熊湖只有大约100码长,被树木环绕。【关键词提示:hem sb./sth. in】
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2. 在她期待是湖的地方,她看到的只有陡峭的林坡,远处是一座白雪皑皑的山峰。她开始在茂密的树林中往回走。【关键词提示:snowcapped】
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3. 她偶然发现了一棵看上去很熟悉的绿色灌木,上面长满了粉红色的浆果。【关键词提示:stud;berry】
译文:_________________________
4. The day was warm and bright, the sky brilliant blue. St. Helens (圣海伦斯山) rose up over them, its perfect triangle peak sparkling with snow.【关键词提示:perfect (十足的,完全的)】
译文:_________________________
5. The road was lined with trees, a forever stretch of forest and rolling hills …【关键词提示:forever (无尽头)】
译文:_________________________
6. The mountain’s lower slopes were blanketed with green trees. The top was covered with snow. Its perfect triangle peak sparkled in the sun.
译文:_________________________
三、翻译主人公森林迷路时的“万千思绪”,并指出反映了主人公什么样的情感或心理状态。
文本句子
1. He tried to go to bed but couldn’t quiet his head. He hated that search crews were wasting resources and losing sleep because he’d taken one too many shortcuts.
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2. That morning, McDonnell woke before dawn and went back to replaying his wrong turns and imagining his wife’s despair. He never once worried he wouldn’t find his way back. He worried only about what was waiting for him when he got there.
译文:_________________________
拓展句子
1. With a new panic, she began to descend.
译文:_________________________
2. It took her an hour to get there, but she was upbeat.
译文:_________________________
3. Still, she took a moment to admire it. The waterfalls, the ancient forest—they reminded her why she loved coming to this spot in the first place.
译文:_________________________
4. How stupid that their last exchange had been so nasty. It was Sunday evening now; she was supposed to be at her students’ birthday party.
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5. As she lay awake, visions of her childhood came to mind. Random scenes—church on a Sunday morning with her family, trotting around the running track as a high school athlete.
译文:_________________________
四、以适当的形式填空,然后翻译以下森林迷路后林中活动的句子。
1. After about 15 minutes, McDonnell came to a spot __________________ he could more clearly see the landscape around him.
译文:_________________________
2. Within another 15 minutes, McDonnell __________________ (emerge) from the thicket, __________________ (prowl) around for deer marks, and then began a slow ascent to the ridgeline.
译文:_________________________
3. __________________ (drag) herself along in an awkward crab-walk, she __________________ (find) the creek __________________ quarter mile away.
译文:_________________________
4. All day long she __________________ (pick) her way carefully down the gorge, __________________ (cling) to the slopes __________________ the edge of the creek.
译文:_________________________
5. She moved __________________ (methodical), __________________ (plot) every step, ____________________________________ (cross) and recrossing the stream __________________ (avoid) obstacles, and __________________ (balance) on __________________ (fall) logs or clinging to tree roots.
译文:_________________________
五、翻译以下表示陷入困境的句子。
1. 她来到小溪上方一个露出地面的岩层处,停了下来。似乎没有好路可走了。向前太陡,向后太陡,向左太陡。如果她能穿过小溪的话,她可以沿着对岸往下走——但需要跳到12英尺深的水里。【关键词提示:outcropping (露出地面的岩层); forward; steep; backward; proceed】
译文:_________________________
2. He looked behind him: The ravine he’d followed down the mountain looked steeper and longer than he’d thought it was.
译文:_________________________
3. Making matters worse, he had begun sliding downhill along the wet jungle floor. At last, he came to rest in a tiny depression on the hillside where he could grasp a tree root.
译文:_________________________
4. She dug her fingernails into the soil and waited for the help that she hoped was on the way. She was trying to scream for help, but each time it came out like a whimper. Any movement made her feel as if she might fall down the steep incline to whatever dangers lay below.
译文:_________________________
六、翻译以下表示救援活动的句子
1. Shenandoah County Sheriff Department captain Wesley Dellinger sprang into action when he got the call about a missing elderly man: not quite six feet tall, 200 pounds, lost in the national forest.
译文:_________________________
2. The dog teams had been on McDonnell’s scent for more than an hour, and Dellinger and his deputy agreed that the search area had shrunk enough to send up the drone.
译文:_________________________
3. Now as the light from the chopper danced closer, McDonnell struggled to rouse his achy joints and get to his feet. He managed to lift his orange hunter’s hat to the sky and began waving. “I’m here!” he yelled. “I’m right here!”
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4. For several seconds, the chopper hovered directly above him.
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5. The following morning, as the silhouette of the mountains emerged, Dellinger had a new two-pronged search effort ready to go. Teams of rescuers with bloodhounds, primed with McDonnell’s scent, started in on the trail McDonnell had hiked.
译文:_________________________
6. At the same time, in the woods below, one of the tracking teams was working its way through the laurel thicket and came upon a spot where some branches had been tamped down into a sort of mattress.
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7. Now that he had the drone up, Devaney could see the forest clear as a crow.
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