英语听力：探索发现 2012-03-14 荒野求生 澳洲金伯利—6

 As the afternoon and the clouds start to roll in, the sun’s heat is beginning to cool off a little. Hear that? It’s thunder. It’s amazing, you know. Sun. I tell you it’s gonna be rain within a few hours. It’s all moving this way. 

 

Out here in the wet season, the intense humidity and the tropical cyclones¹ can lead to sudden thunderstorms. If you want to have a campfire for the night, you’ve got to collect some tinder now while it’s dry. A lot of the bushes round here are these kapok² bushes. Look and tell that just from these leaves. They are soft. They are furry³. And they are kind of shaped like a maple⁴ leaf as well. But what I’m after is the seed pods that gown on them.

 

Here you go. Look. Pull this down. You see these ones here? Pull this off. And just inside is like this cotton wool. But this stuff is great for tinder for making a fire. So I can just collect a few of these and that will really help me. The kapok shells not only protect the seeds but also help keep that cotton-world tinder dry. The north of Australia is one of the most lightning-prone areas on earth. Some storms have produced over 1,500 lightning flashes in just a few hours. You can see those dark clouds and over here the blue stuff that has just moved. And that’s all heading my way. 

 

If the weather closes in like this, you’ll need some sort of shelter. 

 

You know I need to get off this rock now and make camp. 

 

With storms come rain. And in the Kimberley almost three foot of rain has be known to fall in only nine hours. And that could lead to treacherous⁵ flash floods. I can feel that wind blowing straight towards me. And yeah, there’s really a sudden pour now.

1 cyclones   

n.气旋( cyclone的名词复数 )；旋风；飓风；暴风

参考例句：

• The pricipal objective in designing cyclones is to create a vortex. 设计旋风除尘器的主要目的在于造成涡旋运动。 来自辞典例句
• Middle-latitude cyclones originate at the popar front. 中纬度地区的气旋发源于极锋。 来自辞典例句

2 kapok   

n.木棉

参考例句：

• As all we know,kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou.众所周知，木棉是广州市的市花。
• Kapok becomes red when spring comes.春天来了，木棉红了。

3 furry   

adj.毛皮的；似毛皮的；毛皮制的

参考例句：

• This furry material will make a warm coat for the winter.这件毛皮料在冬天会是一件保暖的大衣。
• Mugsy is a big furry brown dog,who wiggles when she is happy.马格斯是一只棕色大长毛狗，当她高兴得时候她会摇尾巴。

4 maple   

n.槭树，枫树，槭木

参考例句：

• Maple sugar is made from the sap of maple trees.枫糖是由枫树的树液制成的。
• The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。

5 treacherous   

adj.不可靠的，有暗藏的危险的；adj.背叛的，背信弃义的

参考例句：

• The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.路面的积水对驾车者构成危险。
• The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.在冻雪上行走有潜在危险。