【英语时差8,16】世界最高峰（上）

Pop Quiz: What’s the highest mountain? Answer? It depends. Oh, okay, the answer on Earth is Mount Everest — standing¹ an amazing five-and-a-half miles high. Pretty impressive — unless you live on Mars, where there is a mountain called Olympic Mons that stands fifteen miles high. So why is Olympic Mons so much bigger than Everest? Another way to ask this question is: Why aren’t there any mountains on Earth fifteen miles high like Olympic Mons? How about thirty miles high? Or a thousand?

1 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。