英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非之德拉肯斯堡山脉 The Drakensberg—8

 It was a very thought of wandering these mountains that first attracted Brian. He's remained a firm fan even since. He's even written a book about the hotel's history and his experience here.-It's so different from anything else you can find anywhere else-- a diversity of nature, its uniqueness.

-What about the weather?

-The weather is beautiful, horrible, generally as unpredictable as a woman's character.

-Impossible. Have you even been caught out?

-I've caught several times. Yes, been caught several times...

-Badly? 

-Badly, yes. Unexpectedly and badly. It was a mega-storm, which r* on for three, four hours. There's a huge clap of thunder and a flash of lightning. And I looked ahead. I found that the porter who was carrying out pack, and I mean striking by lightening. He means strike by that bolt of lightning. He's been thrown to the ground and he was paralized from the throat almost.

-Did he live?

-He survived and was on his feet again in about three or four months. This is actually s* about the pack from thirty years ago.

-This one.

-This is the one, and I've actually got the spot at the pack, with the lightning spot.

-Oh, my Lord!

-It came through the pack, and even struke the bleak¹ can inside here. Lift Indian ** on that tomb.

-So your poor guy. It was carrying this...

-So you can imagine if the dent² to the pack has some impact on him. It was really a shocking storm, which killed other people in this valley as well.

 

1 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。

2 dent   

n.凹痕，凹坑；初步进展

参考例句：

• I don't know how it came about but I've got a dent in the rear of my car.我不知道是怎么回事，但我的汽车后部有了一个凹痕。
• That dent is not big enough to be worth hammering out.那个凹陷不大，用不着把它锤平。