国家地理:加里曼丹岛的地底洞天(10)
日期:2019-07-15 15:13

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中英文本

Two weeks later, when I joined him in Mulu, that faith had been tempered. The expedition was divided into three main teams. Two of them searched for new passages in a remote area of the rainforest while the third, called the "connection team," pored over maps, looking for spots where different cave systems might be linked.
两周后,当我来到姆鲁跟他们一起探险时,艾维斯的自信大打折扣。大家分成三队,两队在雨林偏远处寻找新的通道,第三支队伍是“连接队”,负责仔细查看地图,并寻找可能连接不同洞穴系统的地点。
So far, Eavis said, the pace of discovery had been slow and the holy grail of connections -- the one Frank and Cookie would later probe for -- had eluded them. Eavis acknowledged disappointment, but his teams still had found more than seven miles of fresh passage, and more lay ahead.
艾维斯表示,到目前为止,探索的步伐十分缓慢,寻找连接处(也就是弗兰克和库奇后来去寻找的那个连接处)这一伟大目标也很难实现。虽然艾维斯对此很失望,但他的团队还是找到了超过七英里长的新通道,并且前方还会有更多的通道。

加里曼丹岛的地底洞天

The morning after my arrival I joined Eavis and a small crew headed for a cave called Gua Nasib Bagus -- the Good Luck Cave -- which holds the otherworldly Sarawak Chamber. Eavis, with other British explorers, had discovered the cave and the chamber in 1981, by following a river into the side of a mountain.
在我到达的那个早晨,我和艾维斯,还有一支小队去了一个名叫幸运洞的洞穴,里面有超自然的砂拉越洞穴。1981年,艾维斯和其他英国探险者顺着流进侧山的河流,发现了幸运洞和砂拉越洞穴。
After climbing, pulling, and crawling upstream for hours, the cavers arrived at a still, calm place where the river vanished into the earth. The men unfurled measuring tapes and began surveying into the gloom, expecting to reach the rear wall soon.
在向上攀爬拉拽了几小时后,探险者们到达了一个宁静祥和的地方,在那里,河流流进了土壤。队员们拉出卷尺,开始在昏暗中勘察,希望尽快抵达后墙。

重点讲解


1.be divided into 被分成
From now on, my life will be divided into two parts, with the line drawn by that train.
从今以后,我的一生将被划分成两个部分,这列火车的行程划出了其中的分界线。

2.pore over 集中精神地阅读
He and his team of colleagues, including a German theoretical physicist, pore over vast quantities of data gleaned from soldiers spread across the country.
他和他的队伍,包括一名德理论物理学家,仔细钻研了传遍整个国家、来自士兵们的大量情报。

3.probe for 探索
The question of cultural safety is to probe for the destiny and situation of one country in world cultural relation.
文化安全问题探索的是一个国家的文化在世界文化关系中的命运和处境。

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