In Yellowstone, Don't Step in the Boiling Water

AS IT IS 2016-06-17 In Yellowstone, Don't Step in the Boiling Water

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This year is the 100th anniversary¹ of the U.S. National Park Service.

Millions of people from across the United States and around the world will spend part of this summer visiting one or more of America’s national parks.

One place to enjoy the great outdoors is Yellowstone National Park, in northwestern Wyoming and parts of two other states: Idaho and Montana.

Yellowstone is the country’s first national park. It is also one of the most-visited and most-recognized wilderness² areas.

Yellowstone has found itself in the news a lot this year -- and not just because of the 100th anniversary.

The park has seen several incidents and accidents involving humans. Many of the events have been reported on social media.

Last month, a visitor to Yellowstone put a baby bison in his car because he thought it looked cold. Park officials later asked wildlife experts to kill the baby bison. They said its mother and other bison rejected the animal because of human contact.

Then, on June 7, a 23-year-old visitor fell into an acidic hot spring after leaving a marked walkway.

This week, another Yellowstone tourist made the park a trending topic on social media. The National Park Service said it fined a Chinese man $1,000 for leaving a boardwalk path in Yellowstone’s Mammoth³ Hot Springs area. A park service press release⁴ says the man admitted to trying to collect water in a bottle from the hot springs.

“Yellowstone” trended Thursday on Facebook.

People on social media reacted to yet another incident at the park. Many cheered park rangers⁵ for making the tourist pay for breaking rules.

One Twitter user⁶ wrote, “Sounds like Yellowstone visitors are pretty unruly. If anything, this Chinese tourist was lucky to be unhurt.”

News reports say that the Chinese man also admitted to not reading park safety information before his visit.

Yellowstone does provide visitor information in many languages, including Mandarin⁷ and Cantonese.

The National Park Service urges all visitors to “leave no trace⁸” in the protected nature. That includes not leaving the trails and walkways.

And that’s What’s Trending Today.

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trace - n. something (such as a mark or an object) which shows that someone or something was in a particular place

1 anniversary   

n.周年(纪念日)

参考例句：

• They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
• Today is my parents'30th wedding anniversary.今天是我父母结婚30周年纪念日。

2 wilderness   

n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

3 mammoth   

n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的

参考例句：

• You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
• Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。

4 release   

vt.发布，发表，发行；释放，放开

参考例句：

• After my examination I had a feeling of release.考完试后我有如释重负之感。
• This medicine will give you release from pain.这药吃后会解除你的疼痛。

5 rangers   

护林者( ranger的名词复数 )； 突击队员

参考例句：

• Do you know where the Rangers Stadium is? 你知道Rangers体育场在哪吗？ 来自超越目标英语 第3册
• Now I'm a Rangers' fan, so I like to be near the stadium. 现在我是Rangers的爱好者，所以我想离体育场近一点。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

6 user   

n.用户，使用者

参考例句：

• The company is the biggest user of oil.该公司是最大的石油用户。
• The umbrella keeps the rains off the user.雨伞使撑伞人免受雨淋。

7 Mandarin   

n.中国官话，国语，满清官吏；adj.华丽辞藻的

参考例句：

• Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
• Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。

8 trace   

n.痕迹，踪迹，微量；vt.追踪，找出根源，描绘；vi.追踪

参考例句：

• There isn't a trace of a smile on her face.她脸上没有一丝笑容。
• We have lost all trace of him.我们找不到他的踪迹。