英语听力：2012-01-04 穿越阿尔匹斯山 Alps-11

 And you can see when I’m actually walking on here, this is all the pine and the earth is actually on top of the snow. And this stuff I’m hitting would just be like concrete. Splintering all these trees and ripping them apart. And basically, this is all that’s left of an entire pine forest. Amazing. But an avalanche¹ may give you the chance to find something to eat. If you do come across a dead animal, like a shamwar, a mountain goat, make sure you take a close look. 

 

You can just see all the guts² of it that’s here. This is all rotting away, but under this stuff there are some maggots feeding off this. And even though I don’t want to be going near the flesh of this, these maggots are living and these are good protein. And really good energy, massive calories. And the way to eat these is you bite off the head because that’s a really disgusting bit. In fact, I think the whole maggot is really disgusting. But then you just eat the body. But I want to be taking a bit of these now, a few for bait, and a few for food. 

 

Now I’m gonna use my maggots as bait to find something more substantial to eat. The only question is what to do with them. 

 

I’m in the French Alps. I’ve got some maggots which you can also use as bait for food. So now a chance to use those frozen lakes to your advantage, for where there’s a lake, there’s often fish. 

 

I’m definitely on a frozen lake and you can just tell as it’s wet, very slushy. And you can see it’s just a few digs down, and I’m into water here. And this is probably ice. It’s only probably three or four inches thick. And I’ve got to be really careful on the stuff, but with a little bit of effort, I should be able to dig a decent enough hole here. Get through to the slush, and then through a few inches of ice. And the idea of what I want to do is to put out a night line with some hook, and with a bit of my para cord, and try and catch a couple of fish. That’s the plan.

1 avalanche   

n.雪崩，大量涌来

参考例句：

• They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。
• Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。

2 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》