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英语必修三
Unit 5
Canada
课文翻译
作者：未知
来源：尚学苑
2014-09-20
A TRIP ON
Li Daiyu and
her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to
visit their cousins in Montreal
on the
Atlantic coast. Rather than take the aeroplane all
the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver
and then take the train west to east
across Canada. The thought that they could cross
the whole
continent was exciting.
Their
friend,
Danny
Lin,
was
waiting
at
the
airport.
He
was
going
to
take
them
and
their
baggage to catch
about their
trip.
’
ll pass mountains
and thousands of lakes and forests, as
well as wide rivers and large cities. Some people
have the
idea that you can cross Canada
in less than five days, but they forget the fact
that Canada is 5,500
kilometres from
coast to coast. Here in V
ancouver,
youre in Canadas warmest part. People say it is
Canadas most beautiful city, surrounded
by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Skiing in the
Rocky
Mountains and sailing in the
harbour make Vancouver one of Canadas most popular
cities to live
in. Its population is
increasing rapidly. The coast north of Vancouver
has some of the oldest and
most
beautiful
forests
in
the
world.
It
is
so
wet
there
that
the
trees
are
extremely
tall,
some
measuring over 90
metres.
That afternoon aboard the
train, the cousins settled down in their seats.
Earlier that day, when
they crossed the
Rocky Mountains, they managed to catch sight of
some mountain goats and even
a
grizzly
bear
and
an
eagle.
Their
next
stop
was
Calgary,
which
is
famous
for
the
Calgary
Stampede.
Cowboys
from
all
over
the
world
come
to
compete
in
the
Stampede.
Many
of
them
have a gift for riding wild horses and
can win thousands of dollars in prizes.
After two days travel, the girls began
to realize that Canada is quite empty. At school,
they
had
learned
that
most
Canadians
live
within
a
few
hundred
kilometres
of
the
USA
border,
and
Canadas population is only slightly
over thirty million, but now they were amazed to
see such an
empty
country.
They
went
through
a
wheat-growing
province
and
saw
farms
that
covered
thousands of acres.
After dinner, they were back in an urban area, the
busy port city of Thunder
Bay at the
top of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised
at the fact that ocean ships can sail up
the Great Lakes. Because of the Great
Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water
than any
other country in the world. In
fact, it has one-third of the worlds total fresh
water,and much of it is
in the Great
Lakes.
That night as they slept,
the train rushed across the top of Lake Superior,
through the great
forests and southward
towards Toronto.
真北方<
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之旅
李黛玉
和她的表妹刘倩要去加拿大大西洋海岸的蒙特利尔市看望他们的表兄妹。
他们不
想一路乘飞机，
而决定先飞到温哥华，
再从西海
岸乘火车横穿加拿大到达东海岸。
要横穿整
个大陆的想法很是令
人兴奋。
朋友林丹妮，在机场等候她们。他
要带着她们和行李去火车站乘坐横穿加拿大的
真北
方
号列车。在去火车站的路上，林丹妮聊起了她们的
旅程，
你们沿途将会看见美丽壮阔的
风
景。
一路向东行，
你们会经过一座座山脉，
上千个湖泊，森林还有宽阔的河流和许多大城
市。有人想在不到五天的时间里穿越加
拿大，他们忘记了加拿大从东海岸到西海岸有
5500
千米。这
儿，温哥华，是加拿大最美丽的城市，被大山和太平洋环抱。落基山脉可以滑雪，
海港供
你们扬帆，
这些使得温哥华是加拿大最受欢迎的居住城市之一。
这个城市的人口增长
很快。
在温哥华北面的海岸上保存着世界上
最古老，最美丽的森林。那儿的湿度很大，
所以
树都长得特别高
，一些高达
90
多米。
那天下午表姐妹俩才登上火车落了
座。
那天早些时候，
当他们穿越落基山脉时，
< br>他们设
法看见了野山羊，
甚至还看见了一只大灰熊和一只
鹰。
她们的下一站是卡尔加里，
这个城市
因
大西部赛马会
而闻名。
来自世界各地的牛仔们来参加赛马会比赛。
他们在
许多人都有骑
野马的才能，他们能赢得几千美元的奖金。
两天后，
他们开始意识到加拿大人烟稀少。
他们在学校学过，
大多数加拿大人居住在靠
近美国几百千米以内
的边境地带，
加拿大的人口也只有三千万多一点。
但是现在看到
这么空
旷的国家，
她们很惊讶。
她们穿
过一个种植小麦的省份，
他们看到了面积有数千平方千米的
农场
。晚饭后，他们又回到城市，位于五大湖区最北端的繁忙的港口城市，桑德湾。巨大的
海
轮，可以开到五大湖，让表姐妹俩感到吃惊。他们知道，因为五大湖，加拿大的淡水比世
界上任何其他国家都要多。
事实上，
加拿大拥有全世界三分之一
的淡水量，
其中大部分都储
蓄在五大湖泊里。
< br>
那天夜里她们睡着了，火车越过苏必利尔湖北部，穿过大森林
，朝南向多伦多飞驰着。
‖
FROM TORONTO TO
MONTREAL
The
next
morning
the
bushes
and
maple
trees
outside
their
windows
were
red,
gold
and
orange, and there was
frost on the ground, confirming that fall had
arrived in Canada.
Around
noon
they
arrived
in
Toronto,
the
biggest
and
most
wealthy
city
in
Canada.
They
were
not leaving for Montreal until later, so they went
on a tour of the city. They went up the tall
CN Tower and looked across the lake. In
the distance, they could see the misty cloud that
rose
from
the
great
Niagara
Falls,
which
is
on
the
south
side
of
the
lake.
The
water
flows
into
the
Niagara River and over the falls on its
way to the sea.
They
saw
the
covered
stadium,
home
of
several
famous
basketball
teams.
As
they
walked
north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu
said,
here. I should phone her from a
telephone booth.
They met Lin
Fei around dusk in downtown Chinatown, one of the
three in Toronto. Over
dinner at a
restaurant called The Pink Pearl, the cousins
chatted with Lin Fei, who had moved to
Canada many years earlier.