Lesson 42 caveman 　　第42課 (遠(yuǎn)古)洞穴人 　　modern caveman 　　現(xiàn)代穴居人 　　The bones of caveman were discovered in this verycave. 　　原始穴居人的骨頭就是在這個(gè)山洞里發(fā)現(xiàn)的。 　　Boxing can only be discussed in the context of acaveman's sport. 　　拳擊只能在原始人的運(yùn)動(dòng)這個(gè)意義上加以討論。 　　pot-holing 　　洞穴探險(xiǎn)，洞穴探險(xiǎn)運(yùn)動(dòng) 　　Cave exploration,or pot-holing,as it has come to be known,is a relatively new sport. 　　洞穴勘察——或洞穴勘探是一項(xiàng)比較新的體育運(yùn)動(dòng)。 　　He recently took an interest in pot-holing. 　　他近對(duì)洞穴探險(xiǎn)發(fā)生了興趣。 　　If you have any difficulty,go to my friends in the pot-holing club. 　　假如你遇到困難，可以去找我那些洞穴探險(xiǎn)俱樂部的朋友。 　　solitude 　　孤獨(dú)，寂寞 　　Perhaps it is the desire for solitude or the chance of making an unexpected discovery 　　也許人們是被獨(dú)處的渴望或者獲得意外發(fā)現(xiàn)的機(jī)會(huì) 　　that lures people down to the depths of the earth. 　　誘惑使著來到地底深處的。 　　I often have the curious feeling of solitude and multitudel. 　　我常常有一種古怪的又冷清又熱鬧的感覺。 　　The solitude of the sea made him keenly sensitive to every sight.sound and touch. 　　寂寥的大海使他對(duì)每種景致、聲音觸覺都異常敏感。 　　lure 　　引誘，誘惑 　　Perter was lured into playing billiards with a fellow soldier. 　　彼得被一個(gè)戰(zhàn)友引誘著玩起了臺(tái)球。 　　The thief lured him to the doorway and his accomplice hit him on the head. 　　小偷把他引到了門洞里，他的同伙在他的頭上重重一擊。 　　pot-holer 　　洞穴探險(xiǎn)者 　　It is impossible to give a satifactory explanation for a pot-holer's motives. 　　要想對(duì)洞穴探險(xiǎn)者的動(dòng)機(jī)做出滿意的解釋是不可能的。 　　Do you happen to know any first-class pot-holers? 　　你認(rèn)不認(rèn)識(shí)第一流的洞穴探險(xiǎn)者? 　　Curiosity alone cannot make a pot-holer. 　　僅有好奇心是不能成就一個(gè)洞穴探險(xiǎn)者的。 　　ramber 　　漫步者;散步者 　　Exploring really deep caves is not a task for the sunday afternoon rambler. 　　探索很深的洞穴可不是禮拜天下午隨興漫步的人能夠勝任的。 　　Few people can afford to be ramblers. 　　很少有人做得起漫游者。 　　Yoyo loves ramblers,himself being one of the chiefest. 　　悠悠喜歡優(yōu)游自在的人，他自已就是個(gè)中的中堅(jiān)。 　　undertaking 　　任務(wù)，工作 　　Such undertakings require the precise planning and foresight of military operations. 　　這種活動(dòng)需要軍事行動(dòng)的周密部署和預(yù)見能力。 　　Myrtle is not one to waste time in any undertaking. 　　默特爾是一個(gè)不會(huì)任何工作浪費(fèi)時(shí)間的人。 　　This is a difficult but glorious undertaking. 　　這是一項(xiàng)光榮艱巨的任務(wù)。 　　foresight 　　預(yù)見;深謀遠(yuǎn)慮 　　Fortunately we had the foresight to bring some canned food. 　　幸好，我們有先見之明，帶了幾個(gè)缺罐頭。 　　Bright is always boasting about his foresight.There he goes again! 　　布賴特老是吹噓他的先見之明，喏，那不是又來了! 　　foretell 　　預(yù)言 　　Precautions of this sort are necessary, 　　這樣的準(zhǔn)備是必要的， 　　for it is impossible to foretell the exact nature of the difficulties which will confront the pot-holer. 　　因?yàn)闊o法預(yù)見洞穴探險(xiǎn)者將會(huì)遇到什么性質(zhì)的困難。 　　The religious leader foretold the arrival of an age of peace. 　　這位宗教領(lǐng)袖預(yù)言一個(gè)和平時(shí)代將會(huì)到來。 　　Is life still worth living if everything can be foretold? 　　假如每件事情都能被預(yù)見的話，人生還有什么意思呢? 　　Grenoble 　　格里諾布爾 　　The deepest known cave in the world is the Gouffre Berger near Grenoble. 　　已知的深的洞穴是格里諾布爾附近的高弗伯杰洞。 　　chasm 　　斷層，裂口，陷坑 　　This immense chasm has been formed by an underground stream 　　這個(gè)幽深的洞穴起初是巖石上的一道罅隙，被地下泉水不斷沖刷 　　which has tunneled a course through a flaw in the rocks. 　　直至趟成了一條通道，這才逐漸形成的。 　　A great chasm appeared on the ground after the earthquake. 　　地震后，地上出現(xiàn)了一條在裂縫。 　　The couple failed to bridge the chasm between them. 　　這對(duì)夫婦未能跨越他們之 間的鴻溝。 　　flaw 　　裂縫，缺陷，瑕疵 　　There was a flaw in his argument. 　　他的論點(diǎn)有個(gè)漏洞。 　　This type of success was almost without flaw,as he saw it. 　　在他看來，這種成功簡(jiǎn)直是無懈可擊的。 　　distinguished 　　杰出的，的 　　The cave might never have been discovered 　　若不是法國(guó)洞穴探險(xiǎn)家伯杰 　　had not the entrance been spotted by the distinguished French potholer,Berger. 　　由于偶然的機(jī)會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)了洞口的話，這個(gè)洞也許永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)為人所知。 　　These distinguished individuals came and went,singly as a rule. 　　這些名人照例是獨(dú)來獨(dú)往。 　　Everest 　　珠穆朗瑪峰 　　Since its discovery,it has become a sort of pot-holer's Everest . 　　自從這個(gè)洞被發(fā)現(xiàn)后，它就成了洞穴探險(xiǎn)者的珠穆朗瑪峰。 　　Qomolangma,whose European name is Everest,is the highest point on the earth. 　　珠穆朗瑪峰，歐洲人稱它埃佛勒斯峰，是地球的高點(diǎn)。 　　Qomolangma,(Everest) was first conquered in 1953. 　　1953年人類首次登上了珠穆朗瑪峰 。 　　wade 　　涉水 　　They had to edge their way along this, 　　他們不得不側(cè)著身子往前走， 　　sometimes wading across the shallow streams,or swimming across deep pools. 　　有進(jìn)繞過淺溪，有時(shí)游過深潭。 　　I'm not going to wade in such weather. 　　這種天氣我可不愿意趟水。 　　The dusk fell before we waded ashore. 　　我們涉水上岸之前天色就已經(jīng)暗了。 　　waterfall 　　瀑布 　　Suddenly they came to a waterfall which dropped into an underground lake at the bottom of thecave. 　　突然，他們來到一道瀑布前注入洞穴一處地下湖里。 　　Niagara Falls is a huge waterfall that lies on the Niagara River. 　　尼亞加拉大瀑布是尼亞加拉河上的一條大瀑布。 　　gear 　　一套用具 　　They plunged into the lake,and after loading their gear on an inflatable rubber dinghy, 　　他們跳進(jìn)湖里，把各種器具裝上一只充氣橡皮艇， 　　let the current carry them to the other side. 　　聽任水流將他們往對(duì)岸。 　　The camers kept all their gear in footlockers. 　　野營(yíng)的人把所有的用品都放在床腳箱里。 　　They loaded their gear into the van. 　　他們把工具裝進(jìn)運(yùn)貨車。 　　inflatable 　　可充氣的 　　inflatable raft 　　充氣救生筏 　　inflatable life-jacket 　　充氣救生衣 　　ruuble 　　碎瓦，瓦塊 　　At the end of the lake,they came to huge piles of rubble 　　在湖的盡頭， 　　which had been washed up by the water. 　　他們見到大堆大堆被湖水沖上岸的碎石。 　　The little statue was made of rubble. 　　這座小塑像是用碎石拼合起來的。 　　The city had been turned into rubble in the raid. 　　整座城市被炸成瓦礫。 　　insistent 　　連續(xù)的，不斷的 　　In this part of the cave,they could hear an insistent booming sound 　　在這兒，他們可以聽見一種連續(xù)不斷的轟鳴聲。 　　which they found was caused by a small waterspout 　　后來他們發(fā)現(xiàn)這是山洞頂部一個(gè)小孔里 　　shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave. 　　噴出來的水柱跌落到水潭中發(fā)出的聲音。 　　The inssistent flowing of the fountain seemed to be the symbol of the passing of time. 　　噴泉不停地流著，仿佛是時(shí)光流逝的象征。 　　The baby's insistent cries almost broke his heart. 　　孩子不停的哭叫，差點(diǎn)沒有把他心疼死。 　　boom 　　轟響 　　The thunder boomed. 　　雷聲隆隆隆。 　　waterspout 　　強(qiáng)大的水柱 　　The word"waterspout' often refers to the tornado that occurs over a water surface. 　　這個(gè)詞是通常用來指從海上刮過的龍卷風(fēng)。 　　A colorful waterspout shot from the mouth of the elcetronic dragon and the children clapped. 　　一道五顏六色的水柱從電龍嘴里噴出來，孩子們鼓起掌來。 　　cleft 　　裂隙，開口 　　Squeezing through a cleft in the rocks, 　　洞穴探險(xiǎn)者從巖石縫里擠過去， 　　the pot-holers arrived at an enormoous cavern,the size of a huge concert hall. 　　來到一個(gè)巨大的洞里，其大小和一個(gè)音樂廳差不多。 　　In the cleft of a great oak-tree he saw the piece of white gold that he was seeking. 　　在一棵老橡樹的裂縫里，他看到了他在尋找的那塊白金。 　　cavern 　　大洞穴 　　We stood in the cavern and shined a flashlinght on its high ceiling. 　　我們站在大山洞里，用手電照在高高的頂上。 　　stalagmite 　　石筍 　　After switching on powerful arc lights, 　　他們打開強(qiáng)力弧光燈， 　　they saw great stalagmites-some of them over forty feet high- 　　看見一棵棵巨大的石筍， 　　rising up like tree-trunks to meet the stalactites suspended from the roof. 　　與洞庭頂懸掛的鐘乳石相接。 　　A stalagmite appears like an inverted stalactite,rising from the floor of a carvern. 　　石筍像倒生的鐘乳石，從巖洞底部向上長(zhǎng)。 　　stalactite 　　鐘乳石 　　Not every stalatite has a complementary stalagmite. 　　不是每根鐘乳石都有互生的石筍。 　　limestone 　　石灰石 　　Round about,piles of limestone glistened in all the colors of the rainbow. 　　周圍是一堆堆石灰石，象彩虹一樣閃閃發(fā)光。 　　There are four principal types of limestones. 　　石灰石有四種主要類型。 　　glisten 　　閃爍 　　After a moment she looked up with a slow smile,her eyes glistening with tears. 　　過了一會(huì)兒她抬起頭來慢慢一笑，眼里閃著淚光。 　　eerie 　　引起恐懼的，可怕的 　　In the eerie silence of the cavern,the only sound that could be heard 　　洞里有一種可怕的寂靜， 　　was made by water whcih dripped continuously from the high dome above them. 　　惟一可以聽見的聲響是高高的圓頂上不間斷的滴水聲。 　　That old house is an eerie place even in the day. 　　那棟老屋即使在白天也有一種神秘可怖的氣氛。 　　dome 　　穹窿，圓頂 　　The dome on the concert hall is painted golden. 　　音樂廳的圓頂漆成金色。