口译与听力分析.ppt

口译与听力 15? ? Tourism Exercises E-C ? ? Put the following sentences into Chinese.1. Tropical plants, sandy desert, waterfallls, craters and caves make the 780-square-kilometer Hawaiian National Park a tourist attraction. 热带植物、沙漠、瀑布、火山口、山洞使780平方公里的夏威夷国家公园成为一个旅游圣地。 2. In those sections of the state which lie above the Arctic Circle, Alaska still is a land of icebergs and polar bears. Ice mass lie buried in the earth, which is permaneytly frozen to a depth of ninety or more meters. 阿拉斯加州位于北极圈，其北部地区现在仍然是冰山和北极熊盘踞之地，大冰块掩藏在下面，常年冰冻，其厚度达90余米。 3. Together with the Missouri, its chief western branch, the Mississippi flows some 6,400 kilomers from its northern sources in the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico, which makes it one of the worlds longest waterways.密西西比河与其主要分支密苏里河一起，从其主要发源地洛矶山脉起，流程约6，400公里，注入墨西哥湾，是世界上最长的水上航道之一。 4. In 1872, Yellowstone became the??worlds first national park. It is a wonderful land which has intrigued the minds of men and moved them, inspired them. 1872年黄石成为世界上第一个国家公园。这里是一片神奇的土地，它激发了人们的情感，鼓舞着他们，鞭策着他们。5. The Great Lakes are the largest group of lakes in the world, covering 95,170 square miles in surface, draining an area of 295,200 square miles and flowing to the sea at a rate of 240,000 cubic feet per second - more than the Seine, Thames and Danube combined. 北美洲五大湖是世界上最大的湖泊群，占地面积9.517万平方英里，流域面积29.52万平方英里，以每秒24万立方英尺的流速流入大海－比塞纳河、泰晤士河、多瑙河加起来的流速还要快。 6. Perhaps no scene can equal the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. There, for a million and a half years, the great river has been gouging through the mountain rocks. 也许没有任何风景要与科罗拉多大峡谷相媲美，150万年来，这条大河一直从那里穿岩而过。7. Modern exploration of the upper part of the Nile began in about 1837 when Mohammed Ali, the Turkish ruler of Egypt, ordered a search to be made for the rivers source. 对尼罗河上游的现代探险大约开始于1837年，当时在埃及的土耳其统治者穆罕默德阿里发布命令探索尼罗河的发源地。 8. A half million visitors go to Death Valley each year, to look at its magnificently varied scenery and to recapture the flavor of those days of privation and hardsh