美国国家公共电台 NPR--Yellowstone's North entrance reopens ahead of schedule

Yellowstone's North entrance reopens ahead of schedule

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While most of Yellowstone National Park re-opened quickly after devastating² floods in June, one major gateway³ town has remained cut off from the park. until this weekend.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Gardiner, Mont., depends on summer tourism. It is near Yellowstone National Park, but unprecedented⁴ flooding in June closed the road that connects the town to the park. Over the weekend, a newly paved road opened again, which could be a lifeline. Here's Yellowstone Public Radio's Olivia Weitz.

OLIVIA WEITZ, BYLINE⁵: As we drive up the newly paved road just outside Gardiner, you look down on the river canyon⁶, and it's there you see the old damaged road fading away. Look above, and the snow-capped hills come into view. We stopped by the side of this new road with Yellowstone Superintendent⁷ Cam Sholly. He says, before they paved it, this was a 10-foot-wide dirt path from the 1870s.

CAM SHOLLY: Are people going to want to drive it? Absolutely. I mean, I think it's a gorgeous road. You know, people need to be careful. It's safe, but it's steep and it's curvy, just like a lot of mountainous passes and roads.

WEITZ: The park was hoping to open the road in the middle of October, to catch the last couple of weekends of tourists, but Sholly says putting in guardrails and widening the path took a little longer.

SHOLLY: A little bit of a delay - but the reality is, when you're dealing⁸ with something that's so dynamic, to be able to do it in four months plus two weeks is, I think, really incredible.

WEITZ: We drove back to Gardiner, and it's there that I met Karoline Sleichter.

KAROLINE SLEICHTER: And so now I'm just removing all my utensils⁹...

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SLEICHTER: ...That hang on the wall all summer.

WEITZ: She's closing down her food truck for the season. This was her first year in business. She actually opened in May, just before the flooding. Locals and park employees kept the food truck going. During that time, Karoline could look out the back of her food truck and see the road taking shape. But with the lack of tourists, she even closed for a week in early October.

SLEICHTER: Whenever you think it can't get slower, it does (laughter). And it would be like that every day. I'd be like, oh, this ain't bad. Then, the next day, it'd be slower. The next day, it'd be slower.

WEITZ: The main tourism season is now over, but this new route will stay open for any winter visitors planning on cross-country skiing or taking in the local wildlife. That's keeping Superintendent Cam Sholly optimistic.

SHOLLY: We'll look forward to a good winter season and having 2,000 to 3,000 cars come down this road every single day next summer.

WEITZ: And for Karoline, now that her food truck is closed for the time being, she'll actually be spending a lot of the winter on this new road. Her other job is driving a coach in Yellowstone National Park, carrying luggage and mail. For NPR News, I'm Olivia Weitz in Gardiner, Mont.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

3 gateway   

n.大门口，出入口，途径，方法

参考例句：

• Hard work is the gateway to success.努力工作是通往成功之路。
• A man collected tolls at the gateway.一个人在大门口收通行费。

4 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 canyon   

n.峡谷，溪谷

参考例句：

• The Grand Canyon in the USA is 1900 metres deep.美国的大峡谷1900米深。
• The canyon is famous for producing echoes.这个峡谷以回声而闻名。

7 superintendent   

n.监督人，主管，总监；(英国)警务长

参考例句：

• He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
• He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。

8 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

9 utensils   

器具，用具，器皿( utensil的名词复数 )； 器物

参考例句：

• Formerly most of our household utensils were made of brass. 以前我们家庭用的器皿多数是用黄铜做的。
• Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。