自然風景

1、0第二章第二章自然風景自然風景LearningObjectives第一部分TextAGeneralintroductionofChinaChinaislocatedintheeastoftheAsiancontinentonthewesternsheofthePacificOcean.Withalmassof9，600，000sq.km.，Chinaisthethirdlargestcountryinthewld，nextonlytoR

2、ussiaCanada，slightlybiggerthanAmerica.ThetopographyinChinadescendstowardsealevelfromwesttoeastgivesrisetoavarietyoflfms.Geographically，ChinaslopesupwardfromtheeasternseaboardtothehighplateausmountainsofTibetQinghaiinthef

3、arwest，wheretheaverageelevationis4，500meters，mountainpeaksof6，0007，000metersarecommon.Mt.EverestintheHimalayanmountainrangelyingonthesoutheastedgeofChinaat8848metersabovesealevelisthewld’shighestpeak.TheYangtzeYellowRive

4、rs6300kilometers5464kilometerslongrespectivelyarethemostimptantriversinChinatheJinghangCanalwhichstretchesf1794kilometersisoneofthelongestartificialcanalsinthewld.QinghaiLakehasanareaof4583squarekilometersisthelargestinl

5、saltwaterlakeinChinawhilePoyangLakehasanareaof3583squarekilometersisChina’slargestfreshwaterlake.Chinahasover1500largerives，withatotallengthofmethan400，000kilometers.Theyhavecreatedvastfertileplainsfagriculture，allowingi

6、ndustrycommercetoflourish.However，occasionally，theyhavebroughtdisasters.TheChangjiangRiver，theYangtzeRiver，6，300kilometerslong，isChinaslongest，thethirdlongestinthewld，nextonlytotheNileinAfricatheAmazoninSouthAmerica.TheC

7、hangjiangRivervalley，with24.67millionhectaresofcultivatedl，hasalwaysbeenanimptantagriculturalbaseinChina.TheHuangheRiveristhesecondlongestriverinChina，iginatingatthenthernfootoftheSoyaHarMountainsinQinghaiProvince.Thedle

8、lowerreachesoftheHuangheRiverarecalledbyanthropologistsarchaeologists“thecradleofChinesecivilization.“ManycitiesintheregionsuchasLuoyang，KaifengAnyanginHenanProvince，XianXianyanginShaanxiProvincewerecapitalsofChinasgreat

9、dynastiesButinspiteofallitsdistinguishedhisty，theHuanghewasaregionplaguedwithmisery.Befe1949，theriverwasknownas“Chinassrow.“OneofChinasmajproblemswithherriversistheyarenotwelldistributed.About90percentofthemareintheSouth

10、，manyareasintheNthsufferfromseverewatershtage，atleastfpartofeachyear.TheriversnthoftheHuaiheRivertheQinlingMountainRangehavealargeflowinsummer，buteitherdryupfreezeinwinter.2About37milliongallonsofwaterplungenearly200feet

11、overthefalleveryminute.NiagaraFallsisaspectaclethatsasentrancingasitispowerfulitattracts12millionvisitseveryyear.NiagaraFallsisnotthelargestfallinthewldbutit’scertainlyoneofthemostdramaticoneofthemostvisited.TodayNiagara

12、FallsisdubbedtheHoneymooncapitalofthewld.Over15，000couplescomehereeveryyear.Theydoweddingsatthebotanicalgardens.Theyalsodothemon“themaidofthemist“thatgoesrightupunderthefalls.usuallythebridethegroomgetabsolutelysoakingwe

13、t.Thiscustomgoesbacktoearlyyearswhenthehoneymoonsstarted，basicallyinthe1920s，evenearlier.AdaptedfrommaterialsbyContinentBridgeCultureMediaGroup第二部分常見句型，詞匯及范例講解：Part1自然風光的翻譯Part2常見詞匯自然地理名詞海拔atanaltitudeof___abovesealevel，

14、elevation經(jīng)度longitude高低緯度地區(qū)highlowlatitudeswarmlatitudes(熱帶地區(qū))緯度latitude熱帶tropical亞熱帶Subtropical雨季therainyseason赤道equat自然現(xiàn)象anaturalphenomenon南北極southnthpole年降雨量theannualrainfallTheaverageannualprecipitation平均溫度themeantemp

15、eraturetheaveragetemperature山水山峰peak山麓atthefootofthemountain山中避暑勝地mountainrest怪石fantasticallyshapedrocksrockswithgrotesqueshapes日出uniquesunrise懸崖precipitouscliffgrotesquecliffs懸崖峭壁危巖crags峽谷幽谷glengge流水小溪gurglingbrooksstre