4 Explorer Andrew Skurka Takes Hiking to a New Level 杰出的徒步旅行家安德鲁 ·斯库尔卡

仔细听

Andrew Skurka is an athlete，outdoorsman and writer.But when he goes for a walk outside，it is not your average trip.Mr.Skurka is known for going on hiking trips that last for thousands of kilometers.He walked more than eleven thousand kilometers alone through the western United States in two thousand seven.The next year，he hiked more than eight hundred kilometers to cross Iceland alone.

安德鲁·斯库尔卡是位运动员、户外活动爱好者兼作家。但是提起他去户外走走这件事，跟一般人通常意义上的旅行并不是一回事。斯库尔卡先生因持续数千公里的徒步旅行而知名。2007年他步行11000多公里独自穿越美国西部。第二年，他独自徒步800多公里穿越冰岛。

听力破解：outdoorsman中字母t的音失去爆破，发音为[′audɔ：zmən]。词汇宝典：hiking的意思是“徒步旅行”，其动词形式是hike，意为“远足；徒步旅行”；hiker是名词，指“徒步旅行者”。

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The twenty-nine-year-old has become known among explorers as a very skillful extreme hiker.He is also known for carefully preparing and researching every detail of his trips.A story on his most recent trip was published in this month's“National Geographic ”magazine.

这位29岁的男子作为一名徒步高手，已经在探险者的圈子中声名鹊起。他也因行前对一切细节的精心准备和详尽研究而著名。本月的《国家地理杂志》上发表了一篇关于他最近一次旅行的文章。

听力破解：recent trip中recent的尾音[t]失去爆破。

词汇宝典：expert，proficient，skillful，skilled这些形容词都有“熟练的”之意。expert特指有某项专长，有某方面经验；proficient多指擅长于某事，侧重技艺或科学方面；skillful指在工作或操作中表现得灵巧、熟练；skilled通常指已掌握某行业的专业技能或手段，或已有从事某一专门工作的本领或技术。

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Andrew Skurka spent about six months hiking，skiing and rafting through Alaska and Canada's Yukon Territory.The more than seven thousand kilometer trip lasted from March fourteenth until September first of last year.

安德鲁·斯库尔卡花了大约6个月的时间用徒步行走、滑雪和乘筏漂流的方式穿越了阿拉斯加和加拿大育空地区。这趟7000多公里的徒步旅程从去年的3月14日持续到9月1日。

听力破解：thousand的尾音[d]和kilometer的首音[k]是双爆破，前者要失去爆破，后者要完全爆破。

仔细听

It was not an easy trip.Snow covering much of the area was beginning to melt.So it could not support his weight on skis.And it was difficult to walk through the knee-deep snow.Mr.Skurka was not traveling along established paths.He was finding his own way through the complete wilderness of Alaskan“backcountry”.

这不是一次简单的旅行。覆盖该地区很多地方的积雪正在开始融化。因此无法承受他在滑雪板上的重量。步行穿过齐膝的积雪是十分困难的。斯库尔卡先生没有沿着既定的路线行进。他在阿拉斯加偏远地区的荒野中开辟了一条自己的路线。

听力破解：difficult to中第一个t的发音要失去爆破。

词汇宝典：ski在这里做名词，表示“滑雪橇，滑雪板”，它还可以做动词，表示“滑雪，在……上滑雪”，skiing意为“滑雪运动”。

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He said the most difficult period of the trip was crossing the Yukon Arctic and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

“And I went six hundred and fifty seven miles，or roughly I guess it's about eleven hundred kilometers and twenty four days without seeing another human being and without crossing a road.And it certainly didn't help that during that section I got clobbered by bugs and I was caught by two different floods.”

他说旅行中最困难的部分是穿越育空极地和阿拉斯加的北极国家野生动物保护区。

“我走了657英里，或者粗略地猜测了下大约1100公里，我24天没见过人烟、没穿过一条马路了。更雪上加霜的是，我还饱受昆虫袭扰，还遭遇了2次洪水。”

听力破解：most的尾音[t]和difficult的首音[d]形成双爆破，前者失去爆破；got 的尾音[t]和 clobbered 首音[k]为双爆破，前者失去爆破。

学着说一说

1.his own way自己的路；自己的方法

▶one's own way 表示“自己的路，自己的方法”，常见的用法是和介词in搭配组成in one's own way结构，表示“自行其是，以自己的方式”，如：

He wants to live in his own way.他想以自己的方式生活。

▶in one's way 字面意思是“在……的路上”，即“挡某人的路，挡道，

妨碍某人”，如：He stands in my way.他挡了我的道。

2.got clobbered by被……击败

▶clobber是“使惨败，击倒”的意思，常用被动形式be/get+clobbered by，意为“被……打败”，如：

Our team got clobbered by them.我们队被他们打得惨败。

▶在俚语里，clobber 可以用 hit替换，如：

If you do this again，I will hit/clobber you！

你再这样做我就狠狠揍你！

▶在口语中，clobber有时候也做名词，表示“衣服或随身物品”，如：

You should see the clobber he takes when he goes hiking.

你真该看看他远足时带的衣物！