泛读3Unit5翻译

It's Tough at the Top

Mount Everest has long been a great

attraction to millions of people throughout the

课文一

艰难登顶

world. Many people have risked and lost their

珠穆朗玛峰对于全世界数百万人来

lives in the course of expedition. Modern

说，

长期以来有着巨大的吸引力。< /p>

在征服

explorers,

however,

are

becoming

more

fascinated

珠穆朗玛峰的过程中，许多人冒了巨大的

by

the

ultimate

fate

of

earlier

doomed

explorers.

危险，而且失去了生命。然而，现代探险

者对早年遭到厄运的攀登者的最终命运，

reportedly replied when asked why he wanted to

表现出越来越浓厚的兴趣。

climb

Mount

Everest.

The

only

man

to

take

part

in

all three of the British pioneering expeditions

据说

,

当乔治·马罗礼被问及他为何

in

the

1920s,

Mallory

was

driven

by

a

fascination

要攀登珠峰时，他这样回答，“因为有珠

to

reach

the

summit

of

the

mountain

with

which

he

峰”。

他是唯一参加二十世纪二十年代英

had

formed a

strong personal

bond with.

国组织的

所有三次征服珠峰活动的探险

hell-like mountain, cold and treacherous,

家。他对珠峰怀有 强烈的情感，一直神往

once wrote in a letter home from Everest Base

登上山顶。“它是一座魔鬼般的大山，冷

Camp.

risks

of

getting

caught

are

too

great;

峻而且反复无常，”他在珠峰大本营给家

the margin of strength when men are at great

人写信时有一次这样写道。“冒的险实在

heights

is

too

small.

Perhaps

it

is

mere

folly

to

太大；人们攀登峰顶时可使的力量又是这

go up again. But how can I be out of the hunt?

么小。也许只是发疯了才再次攀登。可是

In 1920 when Francis Younghusband, the

President of the Royal Geographical Society

我怎能摆脱这种诱惑呢?”

(RGS), first put forward the idea of supporting

an

expedition

to

Everest,

the

mountain

was

still

a mystery. At 8 848 meters Everest was almost 1

500 meters higher than anyone had previously

1920

年皇家地理学会主席弗兰西

climbed.

There

was

even

doubt

as

to

whether

it

was

斯·扬哈斯本首次提出支持珠峰探险的想

possible

to

breathe

at

such

altitude.

At

the

time

法时，人们对这座山

还一无所知。高达

no one had been within 65 kilometers of the

8848

米的珠峰比当时人类攀登过的最高

mountain,

which

could

only

be

approached

through

峰还高出

1500< /p>

米。

人们甚至怀疑，

在这样

the unknown kingdoms of Nepal or China's Tibet.

的高度有没有可能呼吸。那时，还没有人

With the North and South Poles already

到过珠峰

周围

65

公里的范围，只能从人

discovered, Younghusband had his sights set on

们不太熟悉的尼泊尔王国或中国的西藏走

the

pole

setting

up

the

joint

RGS/Alpine

近这座高山。

Club, Mount Everest Committee.

accomplishment of such a feat will elevate the

human spirit and will give man, especially us

geographers, a feeling that we are acquiring a

true mastery of our surroundings. This is the

incalculable good which the ascent of Mount

Everest will confer,

High Hopes

随着人们发现了北极与南极，扬哈斯

< br>本把他的目光投向“第三极”，设立联合

皇家地理学会

/

登山俱乐部下属的珠穆朗

玛峰委员会。“这次壮举的完成将振奋 人

类精神，也让人类，尤其是我们地理学家

George

Mallory

and

Andrew

Irvine

had

set

out

感到，我们正在成为我们这个环境真正的

from

Camp

VI

on

8

June

1924,

attempting

to

become

主人。

登上珠穆朗玛峰所产生的

效益是难

the

first

men

to

set

foot

on

the

summit.

They

never

以估量的，”扬哈斯本说道。

returned.

Today,

with

more

than

550

mountaineers

厚望

from

20

countries

having

reached

the

summit,

the

mystery has shifted away from Everest the

mountain,

towards

Mallory

the

man.

In

March

1999,

乔治·马罗礼与安德鲁·欧文于

75 years after Mallory's death on the mountain,

1924

年

6

月

8

日从六号营地出发，

试图成

the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition set

为首次登上珠峰的人。可他们再也没有回

out for Everest, not because it was there, but

来。

时至今日，

已有

20

个国家五百五十多

because

he

was.

Leader

of

the

1999

expedition

Eric

名登山运动员登顶成功。谜团也就从珠峰

Simonson and his team were hoping to discover

这座 山转向马罗礼这个人了。

1999

年

3

月，

whether or not the two men achieved their goal

在马罗礼罹难后的第

75

年，

马罗里—欧文

before they died.

研究探险队向珠峰进发，不是因为珠峰在

They had only a few clues to go on. In 1933

那里，而是因为他在那里。

1999

年探险队

< br>an

ice

axe,

thought

to

be

Irvine's,

had

been

found

长埃里克·西门松及其队员希望发现这两

on the route, and in 1975, the body of a climber

人死之前是否成功登顶。

was discovered nearby by a Chinese climber who

described it as being an

account of the vintage clothes the body still

他 们只有几条探寻的线索。

1933

年，

wore. However, the identity of the dead climber

在登山线路上找到被认为是欧文使用的一

has never been confirmed. Simonson's team

把冰斧。

1975

年，一名中国登山运动员在

expe cted to relocate the body during their high

附近发现一具登山者的尸体，将其描述为

level search. They anticipated it to be Irvine,

“一位年长的英国死者”，因为尸体穿的

the inexperienced Oxford graduate who had

是老式衣服。然而，这位死去的登山者的

possibly fallen, dropping his ice axe

on

the icy

身份从未得到确认。西门松的探险队期望

slabs

of

Everest's

North

Face.

Mallory's

fate

was

在高地再

< br>次找到那具尸体。

他们认为会是

unknown.

Searching amongst the snow gullies and

欧文，这位经验不足的牛津毕业生可能是

从悬崖上坠落的，将冰斧掉在珠峰北坡的

scouring

ledges

at

8

320

meters,

Simonson's

team

冰层上。马罗礼的下落则不清楚。

discovered a body, the skin bleached porcelain

white

by

the

sun.

It

was

lying

face

down,

head

and

arms frozen into the earth. Only the collars of

the tattered clothes were intact and on one was

uncovered a manufacturer's label, still legible

在

8320

米的雪沟与冰棱间搜寻时，

西

despite

years

of

vicious

assaults

by

ice

and

wind.

门松小组人员发现了一具尸体，太阳把他

Beneath

this

was

another

label,

which

they

could

的皮肤

晒成瓷白色。

尸体的脸部朝下，

头

all easily read. In simple carefully stitched

与双臂与地面冻成一块。破碎不堪的衣服

letters

was

written:

G

Mallory.

Mallory's

name

on

只有领子完好无损。其中一个领子上发现

the clothes so surprised the search party their

制造厂商的标签。虽经数十年的风霜冰雪

first thought was to wonder why Irvine had been

严酷吹打，标签上的字仍清晰可辨。在这

wearing his climbing partner's shirt. The

块标签下还有另一块标签，队员们很容易

discovery of Mallory's body prompted admiration

辨 出上面的字。

简单而细心缝制的字母为：

of expedition search member, Jake Norton.

G. Mallory

。衣服上的马罗礼的名字令搜

climber,

to

know

what

Mallory

did

was

phenomenal.

He was a powerful tough guy, who fought till the

寻小组感到十分惊讶，他们的第一个反应

end,

就是猜测欧文为何穿着他登山伙伴的衬

During the early decades of the twentieth

衫？发现了马罗礼尸体后，探险队员杰

century,

it

was

this

strength,

tenacity

and

love

克·诺顿对其产生了无比的敬意。“作为

of adventure which had established Mallory as a

一名登山者，了解马罗礼所做的事情意义

leading

figure

in

the

close-knit

climbing

world.

重大。他是一位意志极为坚强的人，战斗

He was an obvious choice for the Mount Everest

到最后一息，”诺顿跟记者这样说道。

Committee as part of the first reconnaissance

expedition in 1921. For Mallory this was the

opportunity

of

a

lifetime.

It

was

a

challenge,

but

二十世纪前几十年时间里，力量、坚

that only increased its appeal, for as he once

韧不拔与富于冒险的精神使马罗礼在组织

said:

To

refuse

the

adventure

is

to

run

the

risk

严密的登山界成为一名出类

拔萃的人。

of drying up like a pea in its shell.

By 1924, after two exhausting and

unsuccessful attempts to the mountain on

expeditions in 1921 and 1922, his early

1921

年他被珠穆朗玛峰委员会一眼相中，

成为第一个珠峰探险队的成员。对于马罗< /p>

礼来说，这是一生一次的机会。这次攀登

珠峰是一次挑战，但挑战 更提高了它的吸

enthusiasm

began

to

wane.

He

was

now

38

years

old.

引力，因为正如马罗礼曾经说过的那样，

A family man with three children, he had just

“拒绝这次冒险机会等于让自已庸庸碌碌

begun a teaching job at Cambridge. Yet, he

地渡过一生。”

couldn't resist one final attempt to complete a

task

he

had

started.

Meeting

Irvine,

recommended

by

Noel

Odell,

the

expedition's

geologist,

buoyed

到了