【英语趣味课堂】荒野求生-Surving the Wild

Sorie: OK, so Mark, you were telling us that you were in the wilderness¹ for three days with no food. Can you tell us how you felt, what your emotions were?

 

Mark: The first day was really interesting. We set off in the morning to find our spot, and we'd been out into the space the previous day to kind of locate a suitable spot, and to make sure we were in a space where there was no other people cause there was eleven people doing the quest, so we didn't want them … we wanted to make sure we didn't bump into these people when we were on this quest so anyway, I chose my spot and we had the previous day taken our supply of water to last three days. That was the only thing we had, and I walked out from the communal² camp, and I left the forest, and it was kind of like big open space, quite mountainous and I saw my spot where I'd chosen and I thought, no I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to stay there for three days, and I kind of felt myself pulled to a different place.

 

Sorie: And what was this place like?

 

Mark: It was kind of on a slope, but I started walking up this slope, quite a steep bank, towards these set of trees, and when I got there, I found like a flat, flattish space, and I thought "Hmm, maybe I can put my tent here" and I decided³ I wanted to stay but it wasn't quite flat enough and it was pretty small in the flat space on the side of this mountainous slope so … I don't know what I got. I got some stick or some stones … NO, I had a little trawl cause I and taken a trawl which you take so you can use the toilet, kind of ecologically. So I used my trawl and made it flatter and then I put my tent up on that little flat spot and it was east facing, but it was like across the valley so it was going to take quite awhile for the sun to rise in the morning. That was my only worry.

 

Sorie: What about the nights?

 

Mark: It was freezing.

 

Sorie: Freezing at night and you were cold. Did you make a fire?

 

Mark: I couldn't make fire because there was a fire ban cause it was mid-summer, which we were very lucky in the vision quest because there was an evacuation order on the very last day and had it happened before we would have evacuated⁴ prematurely⁵ from the quest.

 

Sorie: Very scary.

 

Mark: So no fire, no fire unfortunately.

 

重点词汇：

 

Learn Vocabulary from the Lesson!

set off

 

We set off in the morning to find our spot.

 

When you set off, you begin your trip. Notice the following:

 

We set off for the mountain very early.

We didn't set off until noon.

communal

 

I walked out from the communal camp.

 

Communal means shared by everyone in a group. Notice the following:

 

There is a communal kitchen in the dorm.

The lobby is a communal area.

bump into

 

We wanted to make sure we didn't bump into them.

 

When you bump into someone one, you encounter them by chance. Notice the following:

 

I bumped into my teacher at the mall.

You'll never guess who I bumped into today.

freezing

 

It was freezing.

 

When something is very cold, we say it is freezing. Notice the following:

 

This room is freezing. 

Your hands are freezing!

evacuation

 

There was an evacuation order.

 

When there is an evacuation, everyone must leave an area. Notice the following:

 

Because of the fire, there was an evacuation.

After the game, everyone evacuated the stadium.

 

1 wilderness   

n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

2 communal   

adj.公有的，公共的，公社的，公社制的

参考例句：

• There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.在楼梯平台上有一处公共卫生间供4套公寓使用。
• The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

5 prematurely   

adv.过早地，贸然地

参考例句：

• She was born prematurely with poorly developed lungs. 她早产，肺部未发育健全。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His hair was prematurely white, but his busy eyebrows were still jet-black. 他的头发已经白了，不过两道浓眉还是乌黑乌黑的。 来自辞典例句