英语听力：2012-01-15 穿越阿尔匹斯山 Alps-16

 And that will effectively be the shoe. I take these ones off. And that’s my frame now here. And what I need to do is put a couple of a crossbeams in and then just interweave it with my parachute rigging¹ lines. And then attach my boot to it. And that will be ready to go. It’s gonna make huge difference. It’s not the prettiest job. It’s covered now in blood. But it’s gonna do. 

 

Snow shoes will spread the weight of your body across a larger area of snow, giving you a much better chance of staying on top of the crust and not sinking in. Alright. This snowshoe is almost finished now. I’ve finished the cross bracing². I’ve reinforced it with another bit of sapling around the outside. And what I need now is just to measure up where my feet are gonna go. One there, and that one back here. These are threaded on. Tie my boot in and then Robert’s your father’s brother or Bob’s your uncle. And this is gonna make snow travel a lot easier for me. 

 

Now to try them out. And the snow shoes are working. Even though it’s still tiring, it’s definitely less tiring than the thigh-deep snow I was trying to deal with before. It just means I’m staying on the surface of the snow. I know as soon as I’ve taken them off as I’ve tried a couple of times, I’d sink straight back down again. 

 

This is a grueling journey—cold and often wet. But if I have learned one thing, then it’s this, these mountains may look beautiful and be the perfect place for a holiday, but they can be treacherous and they demand the utmost …

1 rigging   

n.索具，绳索；装备；传动装置v.装配；给（船、桅杆）装配帆及索具(rig的现在分词)

参考例句：

• The ship is considerably damaged in her rigging. 这条船的帆缆受到严重毁损。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• A severe hurricane has done much damage to her rigging of the ship. 猛烈的飓风使这条船的帆缆严重破损。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 bracing   

adj.令人振奋的

参考例句：

• The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
• The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。