人教版必修三Unit5逐句翻译

2021年1月26日发(作者：缩印)
必修三
Unit 5 A TRIP ON
“真北方”之旅

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal on the Atlantic coast.
李黛予和
她的表妹刘倩要去加拿大大西洋海岸的蒙特利尔市 看望他们的表兄妹。
Rather
than
take
the
aeroplane
all
the
way,
they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train west to east across Canada.
他们不想一路乘飞机，而决 定先飞
到温哥华，再从西海岸乘火车横穿加拿大到达东海岸。

The
thought
that
they
could
cross
the
whole
continent
was
exciting.
要横贯整个大陆的想法很是令人兴奋。


Their friend, Danny Lin, was waiting at the airport.
朋友林丹妮，
在机场等候她们。

He was going to take them and their
baggage to catch
他要带着她们和行李去火车站乘坐横越加拿大的“真北方”
号列车。
On the way to the station, he chatted about their trip.
在去火车站的路上，
林丹妮聊起了她们的旅程：

going
to
see
some
great
scenery.
“你们沿途将会看见美丽壮阔的风景。
Going
eastward,
you'll
pass
mountains
and
thousands of lakes and forests, as well as wide rivers and large cities.
一路向东行，
你们会经过一 座座山脉，
上千个湖泊，
森林，还有宽阔的河流和许多大城市。

Some people have the idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days, but
they forget the fact that Canada is 5,500 kilometres from coast to coast.
有人想在不到五天的时间里穿越加拿大，他们
忘了加拿大从东海岸到西海岸有< br>5500
公里。
Here in Vancouver, you're in Canada's warmest part.
这儿，温哥华，
是加
拿大最温暖的地方。
People say it is Canada's most beautiful city, surrounded by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
人们说
温哥华是加拿大最美丽的城市，被大山和太平洋环抱。
Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and sailing in the harbour make
Vancouver one of Canada's most popular cities to live in.
落基山脉可以滑雪，海港供你扬帆，这些使得温哥华成为加< br>拿大最受欢迎的居住城市之一。
Its
population
is
increasing
rapidly.
这个城市的人口增长很快。
The
coast
north
of
Vancouver has some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world.
在温哥华北面的海岸上保存着世界上最古老，
最美丽的森林。

It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 metres.
那儿的湿度很大，
所以树都 长得特别高，一些高达
90
多米。
”







That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their seats.
那天下午表姐妹俩才登上火车落了座。

Earlier that day, when they crossed the Rocky Mountains, they managed tocatch sight of some mountain goats and even a
grizzly bear and an eagle.
火车先是穿越落基 山脉，
她们总算看到了野山羊，
甚至还看见了一只大灰熊和一只鹰。
Their
next stop was Calgary, which is famous for the Calgary Stampede.
她们的下一站是卡尔加里，这个城市因“大西部赛马
会”
而闻名。

Cowboys from all over the world come to compete in the Stampede.
来自世界各地的牛仔们来参加赛马会
比赛。
Many of them have a gift forriding wild horses and can win thousands of dollars in prizes.
他们中许多人都有骑野
马的才能，他们能赢得几千美元的奖金。








After two days' travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty.
两天后，他们开始意识到加拿大人
烟稀少。
At school, they had learned
that
most Canadians live within a few hundred kilometres of the USA border, and
Canada's population is only slightly over thirty million, but now they were amazed to seesuch an empty country.
他们在学校学过，大多数加拿大人居住在靠近美国几百千米以内的边境地带，加拿大的人口也只有三千万多一点儿。但 是现
在看到这么空旷的国家，她们很惊讶。
They
went
through
a
wheat-growing
province
and
saw
farms
that
covered
thousands of acres.
火车穿过一个种植小麦的省份，他们看到了面积有数千平方英亩的农场。
After dinner, they were
back in an urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top ofthe Great Lakes.
晚饭后，他们又回到城市，位于五
大湖区最北端的繁忙的港口城市桑德湾。

The girls were surprised atthe fact that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes.
海轮可以开到五大湖，让表姐妹俩感到吃惊。

Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water
than any other country in the world.
他们知道，
因为五大湖，
加拿大的淡水比世界上任何其他国家都要多。

In fact, it
has one-third of the world's total fresh water, and much of it is in the Great Lakes.
事实上，加拿大拥有全世界三分之一
的淡水量，其中大部分都蓄在五大湖泊里。








That nightas they slept, the train rushed across the top of Lake Superior, through the great forests and southward
towards Toronto.
那天夜里她们睡着了，火车越过苏必利尔湖北部，穿过大森林，朝南向多伦多飞驰着。