英语访谈对话 131 Climbing Fuji

 　　Todd: OK, Steven, what do you want to talk about?

　　Steven: Hiking!

　　Todd: Hiking! Are you a big mountain man?

　　Steven: Yeah, yeah, I really love getting out into the mountains.

　　Todd: What mountains have you climbed?

　　Steven: Well, recently, I climbed Mt. Fuji.

　　Todd: Wow, how long did it take you to get to the top?

　　Steven: Well, I actually climbed Mt. Fuji on four different occasions.

　　Todd: Wow, really!

　　Steven: Yeah, so it was different times each trek¹.

　　Todd: OK, did you go in summer or in spring?

　　Steven: No, actually, the first time I went in, to climb Fuji was in the winter.

　　Todd: Wow, man that must have been cold.

　　Steven: Yeah, well, it wasn't too bad. We had warm clothes and, you know, we were constantly walking, so our body temperature was quite high.

　　Todd: Didn't you slip on the ice? Wasn't the ice really slippery?

　　Steven: Well, we had crampons and ice axes with us.

　　Todd: Really, I'm sorry, you had "crampons"?

　　Steven: Yeah, they're like spikes² that go on your feet, yeah, basically ice shoes, yeah, so you can actually walk on the ice with these shoes without slipping, no problem.

　　Todd: Really! What was it like on the top?

　　Steven: Well, on that particular occasion we didn't get to the top because it was too late in the day. We would have arrived at the top just as the just was setting and it would have been very dangerous I think coming back down, so.

　　Todd: Because it would have been dark?

　　Steven: Yeah, yeah.

　　Todd: OK. Wow, well, really impressive.

　　Steven: Yeah, I really loved it.

1 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

2 spikes   

n.穗( spike的名词复数 )；跑鞋；（防滑）鞋钉；尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 )；偷偷地给某人的饮料加入（更多）酒精（ 或药物）；把尖状物钉入；打乱某人的计划

参考例句：

• a row of iron spikes on a wall 墙头的一排尖铁
• There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping. 监狱墙头装有一排尖钉，以防犯人逃跑。 来自《简明英汉词典》