【英语趣味课堂】印度恒河-The Ganges River

Todd: Nitya, now in India, the Ganges river is very famous. Why is the river so famous in India?

 

Nitya: I guess most reason because, the Ganges River's origin is from Himalayas and it's considered very pure because it's basically by the melting of the ice by the Himalayas, and it's, the whole 12 months and 24 hours flowing river, I mean, it's, there's no time in the whole year that it dries up and people say the Ganges River dries up, it's like throughout the year, the river is there, and water is there, the water level is maintained and it's considered wholly because of the religious reasons I guess because they say in Himalayas, there was a Shiva there and this Ganges river origins from his head, (Oh, I see) Yeah, so this is...

 

Todd: And Shiva is a very famous God.

 

Nitya: Yeah, exactly.

 

Todd: In Hinduism.

 

Nitya: Yeah, religion, yeah.

 

Todd: So, you said that the river comes from glaciers¹ or from ice from the Himalayas, so is the river super clean?

 

Nitya: Super clean I guess, when it starts from there but by the time it reaches the land, I don't think it's super clean.

 

Todd: Does the river have a problem with pollution?

 

Nitya: I guess so, because it's, it's usually, like, like all the cities which are on the bank of this rivers, I guess this problem is all over not only in Ganges River because there no infrastructure² about this cleaning environment so much, still not in action. There are so many schemes from the government, but the actions are not taken.

 

Todd: Well, that's the same everywhere in the world.

 

Nitya: Yeah, but it's a little too much in India because, first thing, there are still a lot of standard problems which are to be solved in India, rather than these things, there are people still dying out of hunger, so a country who has, which has still people who don't get one meal a day, I think they got to look at that first, and then look at anything else, so people have very different way of opinions on these issues (right) so, yeah

 

Todd: Well, actually, just recently in America, with the hurricane that we had, it was the same thing. It was very eye-opening about many people that are in poverty.

Nitya: Exactly.

 

Todd: Yeah, now back to the river, people bathe in the river, is that correct?

 

Nitya: Yeah, Yep.

 

Todd: Now is it wholly or is it just a routine thing?

1 glaciers   

冰河，冰川( glacier的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills. 冰川把丘陵地带冲出一条条山谷。
• It has ice and snow glaciers, rainforests and beautiful mountains. 既有冰川，又有雨林和秀丽的山峰。 来自英语晨读30分（高一）

2 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。