实战口语情景对话 第174期:远足 Hiking

 Todd: Every year my company gives me three weeks holiday, in summer, in August, and usually I go home and I see my family, but two years ago, before I went home, I took a hiking trip in Japan and I went hiking across the "Minami Alps", uh, "Minami" means "south" so they're the Southern Alps in Japan. It was a really good hike. The hike took me five days. Before I went on the hike I needed to buy some gear¹ so I bought a tent, a backpack, some hiking boots, and a good map of the area I was going to traverse². When I did the hike it was really, really hard. I was not prepared for how difficult it was going to be. Each day I had to hike about 12 hours, and the hardest part about each hike was having to carry lots and lots of water because you're walking all day, you have to drink lots of water or else you'll get dehydrated. The mountains were really steep, but once I got over the first mountain, it was just beautiful, really, really beautiful, and I met lots of really nice hikers, especially elderly hikers on the trail and I just had a great time. I just remember the beautiful views from the peaks and at night I could see the stars really clearly, probably more clearly than I ever had before. It was a really really good trip. 托德：每年公司都会给我三周的假期，时间基本是在夏季8月份的时候，我通常会回家看家人，而两年前，我在回家前，去日本远足了，我徒步穿越了南阿尔卑斯山，嗯，“Minami”是“南方的意思”，所以就是日本的南阿尔卑斯山。那真是一次非常棒的徒步旅行。这次旅程用时五天。在远足之前我要买一些装备，所以我买了一个帐篷，一个背包，几双远足靴，一张我准备穿越的地区的地图。当我开始远足时，我觉得这真的是非常非常艰难。我并没有为可能遇到的困难做好准备。每天我都要徒步12个小时，最艰难的地方就是每次徒步旅行都必须要带大量的水，因为你要走一天，你必须要补充足量的水分，否则你就会脱水。那些山非常陡，但是当我越过第一座山的时候，那简直太美妙了，真的非常非常美妙，我在途中遇到了许多很好的远足者，特别是一些尝试远足的老年人，那真是美好的经历。我记得顶峰上美丽的风景，晚上我可以看见星星，看得非常清楚，可能比我之前看过星星的都要清楚。那真是一次非常愉快的旅行。

重点讲解：

1. be not prepared for/to do sth.

没有准备好；

eg. I'm not prepared to give an opinion.

我没准备要发表意见。

eg. I was not prepared for all the problems it caused.

我对这事引起的诸多麻烦毫无准备。

2. or else

否则，要不然；

eg. Hurry up or else you'll be late.

快，否则你就要来不及了。

eg. Stop smoking now, or else your health will be ruined.

别再抽烟了，否则你会毁了自己的健康。

1 gear   

n.齿轮，传动装置，设备，衣服；vt.使适应

参考例句：

• We have to gear our lives to the new changes.我们必须使自己的生活适应新的变化。
• The teeth of the wheel gear into each other.齿轮互相啮合。

2 traverse   

n.横贯，横木；v.横过，铭刻

参考例句：

• We traverse the desert by truck.我们乘卡车横穿沙漠。
• I have no intention to traverse that ground in my present lecture.在这次演讲中我不打算详细讨论这一点。