时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年8月


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马拉松游泳运动员钱伯斯完成七大洋挑战 曾险些丧命


play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:10repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser 1 to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. SUBTITLE 2: Kim Chambers 3 is one of the best marathon swimmers in the world.


She is the sixth person to complete the Oceans Seven, the ultimate open water swimming challenge, and the first woman to swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge.


KIM CHAMBERS, MARATHON SWIMMER: The Oceans Seven is the open water swimming equivalent to the seven summits of mountaineering. Each of them have to be completed following traditional marathon swimming rules, which means no wetsuit ever, such as a regular swim suit, cap and goggles 4, you're allowed ear plugs.


And what's really important with all of these swims is that you cannot have any physical contact with anybody. You're just out there at the mercy of Mother Nature. You're the only human in the water, and they all come with different risks, sharks, jellyfish, strong currents.


The North Channel almost killed me. I ended up in a respiratory ward 5 and a cardiac ward from jellyfish toxicity 6.


Most people who were stung in their first hour don't complete this one. I got stung in the first hour. It was dark, so I couldn't see. It was like swimming through landmines 7 of jellyfish and I can remember it really, really hurt.


I knew that if I was really honest with my crew with how I was feeling, they would pull me, and I was having real difficulty breathing.


All you have to do to make that pain go away is touch the boat, and it's right there. And you do flip 8 with that idea, but you can also see land.


My body started to deteriorate 9. I got really, really cold and I actually do not remember touching 10 Scotland. I don't remember finishing my Oceans Seven.


People wondered if I would ever swim again. But all I wanted to do was go back out there. There is this real treasure that's found at that edge where you're most uncomfortable, where you are most fearful. And that's when I feel most alive.


It's just about doing something that scares you, whatever that is, because I guarantee when you put yourself, and your mind and your body to that goal and you achieve it, you can always draw back on there and say, you know what? I did that. And I did it for me, nobody else.



1 browser
n.浏览者
  • View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
  • I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
2 subtitle
n.副题(书本中的),说明对白的字幕
  • His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
  • Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉!我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。
3 chambers
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅
  • The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间:Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
4 goggles
n.护目镜
  • Skiers wear goggles to protect their eyes from the sun.滑雪者都戴上护目镜使眼睛不受阳光伤害。
  • My swimming goggles keep steaming up so I can't see.我的护目镜一直有水雾,所以我看不见。
5 ward
n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开
  • The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
  • During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时,我要点根火把,抵挡蚊虫。
6 toxicity
n.毒性,毒力
  • The hoarse grunt or squeal is characteristic of toxicity.嘶哑的哼声和叫声是中毒的特征。
  • Dieldrin is related to aldrin,and its toxicity to earthworms is similar.狄氏剂与艾氏剂有关,对蚯蚓的毒性是相似的。
7 landmines
潜在的冲突; 地雷,投伞水雷( landmine的名词复数 )
  • The treaty bans the use production and trade of landmines. 该条约规定,禁止使用地雷相关产品及贸易。
  • One of the weapon's of special concern was landmines. 在引起人们特别关注的武器中就有地雷。
8 flip
vt.快速翻动;轻抛;轻拍;n.轻抛;adj.轻浮的
  • I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书,看来似乎很有趣。
  • Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
9 deteriorate
v.变坏;恶化;退化
  • Do you think relations between China and Japan will continue to deteriorate?你认为中日关系会继续恶化吗?
  • He held that this would only cause the situation to deteriorate further.他认为,这只会使局势更加恶化。
10 touching
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
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acceptance of materials report
all of a sort
Anding Township
antidandruff
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asialosis
bloomeries
brake operating lever
bring one's pigs to a pretty market
call premium
cemin
chromidia hypothesis
chronic hypertrophic myocarditis
codlin
cold pressed essential oil
combat information center (cic)
come dancing
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dabblingly
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Dow-Jones utilities average index
droeges
ease off
Emelin
epithelial cast defect
ergotinine
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exocoetus volitans
fattens up
fetch instruction
Fibonacci generating function
fibrilled film fibre
flip top
freeballs
glottal catches
Gratebars
hand HRB tester
Hippocrates' sleeves
horizontal mergers
hysterical double personality
incomportable
insulated gate
isentropic vorticity
jib-boom crane
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Kwadinguso
Laing
landslid
laparoscopic
least-squares line
lion-heartedly
lunville
make a din
male berry
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modulation power
monoenergetic emission
multiphase digital system
new-cast
nicolayite
Nikke Dow average
oersted (oe)
out-world
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puerto quellon
QMQB (quick-make,quick-break)
quasi-stationary sound pressure
relexifier
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rindy
ripping saw
row-dow-dow
Russophone
rutzen
screw-hole
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sebdenia flabellata
sexual trauma
simple convergencetopology
soundness
spinomuscular paralyses
split-batch charging
Sulfoxyphenylpyrazolidin
Tagretol
tentative layout
thermal lattice spectra
three-acts
trois
u-shape
up and or down locks
Urdu literature
varvaras
whistling tone
Who goes there?
wing illumination light
Yehudi lights