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Book 1 Unit 3 FASCINATING PARKS
Reading and Thinking
Sarek National Park
---Europe’s Hidden National Treasures
01
课文译文
What comes to your mind when you see the picture and topic of this unit?
A national park is not a playground. It’s a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature’s own terms.
--- Michael Frome
Period 1 Reading and Thinking
Experience a national park
Read for the subheadings
A Land of Mountains and Ice
Man at Peace with Nature
A Land of Adventure
A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
I wake up to the sound of the wind buffeting the cloth of my tent.
风噼里啪啦地拍打着我的帐篷的布,我在这声响中醒来。
1. A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
Even though the sun is brightly shining, telling whether it is morning or night is impossible.
尽管外面艳阳高照,我也分不清是早上还是夜晚。
1. A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
I’m above the Arctic Circle, where in summer the sun never sets.
我身处北极圈之内,这里的夏天没有日落。
1. A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
Checking my watch, I see that it is 7:30 a.m.
我看了下手表,现在是上午7点30分。
1. A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
I leave my tent and walk over to the mountain edge. Spreading out before me, branches of the Rapa River flow through the valley below.
我迈出帐篷,走向山边,展现在我眼前的是拉帕河的支流在下边的山谷中逶迤而过。
1. A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
I’m in the remote far north of Sweden in Sarek National Park, a place with no roads or towns.
1. A Summer Where the Sun Never Sleeps
我身处瑞典北端偏远的萨勒克国家公园,一个既没有公路也没有城镇的地方。
Sarek’s mountains used to be covered by vast sheets of ice.
萨勒克的山脉过去被大片冰层覆盖。
2. A Land of Mountains and Ice
Around 9,000 years ago, this ice melted, leaving behind about 100 glaciers.
大约九千年前,冰层消融,留下了约一百座冰川。
2. A Land of Mountains and Ice
Soon after, reindeer began to arrive. Following the reindeer were the Sami people, who made this territory their home.
不久之后,驯鹿开始出现。跟着驯鹿之后来的是萨米人,他们在这片土地上安家落户。
2. A Land of Mountains and Ice
Getting here is quite difficult, so apart from the Sami very few people have ever seen Sarek.
这里交通极为不便,因