英语听力：2012-01-08 穿越阿尔匹斯山 Alps-13

 If he gets one, my plan is to chase him off the kill and take the meat myself. But he’s heard me. There will be no rabbit for dinner tonight, and I didn’t catch any trout¹ either. But if you are luckier than me, my advice is just get stuck in. There’s nowhere I can make a fire on this and cook it, but these trout are just fine to eat raw if I get my finger in his gills here and bite into this. As soon as I bite into it, it’s gonna break its spinal² cord and will kill it. 

 

I’m heading back to the tree line so I can show the best spot to build a shelter and get a fire going. This is old man’s beard, a climbing plant which attaches itself to trees. And this makes great tinder for fire and I want to be collecting some of this. And what it does, since it’s so dry and brittle³, it catches spark very easily. So take some of that, keep that for later, dry it off in my pocket. And yet, look, here you go. This stuff is cool. It’s called sphagnum, sahagnum is what this is. And it’s like … it can act as an antiseptic. If you get a cut, you wipe the wound in it, and it will clean it. Now you’d want to find the right place to build your shelter. What makes the real difference when you are making shelter in these valleys is you try and pick these south-facing slopes. And because they see more of the sun, it means the trees and the rocks have retained 

1 trout   

n.鳟鱼；鲑鱼(属)

参考例句：

• Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.成千上万的鲑鱼和鳟鱼的鱼苗因污染而死亡。
• We hooked a trout and had it for breakfast.我们钓了一条鳟鱼，早饭时吃了。

2 spinal   

adj.针的，尖刺的，尖刺状突起的；adj.脊骨的，脊髓的

参考例句：

• After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天，就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
• Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。

3 brittle   

adj.易碎的；脆弱的；冷淡的；(声音)尖利的

参考例句：

• The pond was covered in a brittle layer of ice.池塘覆盖了一层易碎的冰。
• She gave a brittle laugh.她冷淡地笑了笑。