旧版人教版必修三Unit5英语课文翻译及录音

Book5 Unit 5   加拿大——“真北方”

A TRIP ON "THE TRUE NORTH" “真北方”之旅

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal on the Atlantic coast.

李黛予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她们的表兄妹们。

Rather than take the aeroplane all the way,

她们不想一路乘飞机。

they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train west to east across Canada.

她们决定飞到温哥华，再从西海岸乘火车横穿加拿大到达东海岸。

The thought that they could cross the whole continent was exciting.

要横穿整个大陆的想法很是令人兴奋。

Their friend, Danny Lin, was waiting at the airport.

朋友林丹尼在机场等候她们。

He was going to take them and their baggage to catch "The True North", the cross-Canada train.

他要带着她们和行李去火车站乘坐横越加拿大的“真北方”号列车。

On the way to the station, he chatted about their trip.

在去火车站的路上，林丹尼聊起了她们的旅程。

"You're going to see some great scenery.

“你们沿途将会看到美丽壮阔的风景。

Going eastward, you'll pass mountains and thousands of lakes and forests,

一路东行，你们会经过一座座山脉，上千个湖泊、森林，

as well as wide rivers and large cities.

还有宽阔的河流和许多大城市。

Some people have the idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days,

有人想在不到五天的时间里穿越加拿大，

but they forget the fact that Canada is 5,500 kilometres from coast to coast.

但是他们忘了加拿大从东海岸到西海岸共有5500公里。

Here in Vancouver, you're in Canada's warmest part.

这儿，温哥华，是加拿大最温暖的地方。

People say it is Canada's most beautiful city,

人们都说温哥华是加拿大最美丽的城市。

surrounded by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

被大山和太平洋环抱。

Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and sailing in the harbour

在落基山可以滑雪，海港供你扬帆，

make Vancouver one of Canada's most popular cities to live in.

这些使得温哥华成为加拿大最受欢迎的居住城市之一。

Its population is increasing rapidly.

这个城市的人口增长很快。

The coast north of Vancouver has some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world.

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。

It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 metres."

那儿的湿度很大，所以树都长得特别高，一些高达90多米。”

That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their seats.

那天下午表妹俩才登上火车落了座。

Earlier that day, when they crossed the Rocky Mountains,

火车先是穿越落基山脉，

they managed to catch sight of some mountain goats and even a grizzly bear and an eagle.

她们设法看到了野山羊，甚至还看到了一只大灰熊和一只鹰。

Their next stop was Calgary, which is famous for the Calgary Stampede.

她们的下一站就是卡尔加里，这个城市因“大西部赛马会”而闻名。

Cowboys from all over the world come to compete in the Stampede.

来自世界各地的牛仔们来参加赛马会比赛。

Many of them have a gift for riding wild horses

他们中的许多人都有骑野马的才能，

and can win thousands of dollars in prizes.

他们能赢得几千美元的奖金。

After two days' travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty.

两天以后，她们开始意识到加拿大人烟稀少。

At school, they had learned that most Canadians live within a few hundred kilometres of the USA border,

她们在学校学过，大多数加拿大人在靠近美国几百公里以内的边境地带，

and Canada's population is only slightly over thirty million,

加拿大的人口也只有三千万多一点儿。

but now they were amazed to see such an empty country.

但是现在看到这么空旷的国家，她们还是很惊讶。

They went through a wheat-growing province and saw farms that covered thousands of acres.

火车穿过一个种植小麦的省份，她们看到了面积有数千平方公里的牧场。

After dinner, they were back in an urban area,

晚饭后，她们又回到了城市。

the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes.

位于五大湖区顶端的繁忙的港口城市桑德贝。

The girls were surprised at the fact that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes.

巨大的海轮可以开到五大湖，让表妹俩感到很吃惊。

Because of the Great Lakes, they learned,

她们知道，正是由于五大湖，

Canada has more fresh water than any other country in the world.

加拿大的淡水比世界上任何其他的国家都要多。

In fact, it has one-third of the world's total fresh water,

事实上，加拿大拥有全世界三分之一的淡水量，

and much of it is in the Great Lakes.

其中大部分都蓄在五大湖泊里。

That night as they slept, the train rushed across the top of Lake Superior,

那天夜里她们睡着了，火车越过苏必利尔湖，

through the great forests and southward towards Toronto.

穿过大森林，朝南向多伦多飞驰着。

“THE TURE NORTH”FROM TORONTO TO MONTREAL

多伦多——蒙特利尔的“真北方”列车

The next morning the bushes and maple trees outside their windows were red, gold and orange,

第二天早上，在她们的车窗外到处是灌木丛和枫树，挂满朱红、赤金和橘黄色的叶子。

and there was frost on the ground, confirming that fall had arrived in Canada.

地面覆盖上了一片薄霜，表明秋天已经来到了加拿大。

Around noon they arrived in Toronto, the biggest and most wealthy city in Canada.

中午时分，她们来到多伦多——加拿大最大、最富有的城市。

They were not leaving for Montreal until later, so they went on a tour of the city.

她们要晚些时候再动身去蒙特利尔，因此就在多伦多市内游览了一番。

They went up the tall CN Tower and looked across the lake.

她们登上了高高的加拿大国家电视塔，俯瞰着下面的湖水。

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.

远处，她们可以看到湖的南边尼亚加拉大瀑布上方升腾着的雾霭。

The water flows into the Niagara River and over the falls on its way to the sea.

湖水流入尼亚加拉河，再经过大瀑布，流向大海。

They saw the covered stadium, home of several famous basketball teams.

她们看到了加顶的大型运动场，那是几支著名的篮球队的驻地。

As they walked north from the harbour area,

当她们从港口区向北走的时候，

Li Daiyu said, "Lin Fei, one of my mother's old schoolmates, lives here.

李黛予说：“我妈妈的老同学林菲住在这里。

I should phone her from a telephone booth."

我该到电话亭去给她打个电话。”

They met Lin Fei around dusk in downtown Chinatown, one of the three in Toronto.

大约黄昏时分，她们在市区的中国城遇到了林菲，这是多伦多三个中国城中的一个。

Over dinner at a restaurant called The Pink Pearl,

在一个名叫“海珠酒楼”的餐馆里用餐时，

the cousins chatted with Lin Fei, who had moved to Canada many years earlier.

表姐妹和许多年前就移居加拿大的林菲闲聊了起来。

"We can get good Cantonese food here," Lin Fei told them,

“我们在这里可以吃到很好的广东菜。”林菲告诉她们。

"because most of the Chinese people here come from South China, especially Hong Kong.

“因为这里的大多数中国人来自中国的南方，尤其是香港。

It's too bad you can't go as far as Ottawa, Canada's capital.

很可惜你们不能一直走到加拿大的首都渥太华。

It's approximately four hundred kilometres northeast of Toronto, so it would take too long."

它在多伦多东北方约400公里，要去那儿花时间就太多了。”

The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning.

火车在那夜晚些时候起程了。第二天黎明到达了蒙特利尔。

At the station, people everywhere were speaking French.

火车站里，人们到处说的是法语。

There were signs and ads in French, but some of them had English words in smaller letters.

指示牌和广告也都是法文的，但有些标注了小字体的英文。

"We don't leave until this evening," said Liu Qian.

刘倩说：“我们要到傍晚才动身。

"Let's go downtown. Old Montreal is close to the water."

不如到市区去走走。蒙特利尔老区是在水边上的。”

They spent the afternoon in lovely shops and visiting artists in their workplaces beside the water.

整个下午她们穿梭于布局可爱的商店，还拜访了水边工作坊里的艺术家。

As they sat in a buffet restaurant looking over the broad St Lawrence River,

当她们坐在咖啡馆里，眺望广阔的圣劳伦斯河时，

a young man sat down with them.

一个年轻人坐在了她们的身边。

"Hello, my name is Henri. I'm a student at the university nearby," he said,

“你们好，我叫亨利，是这里的大学生。”他说。

"and I was wondering where you are from."

“请问你们从哪里来？”

The girls told him they were on a train trip across Canada

姑娘们告诉她，她们是坐火车来旅游的，要横穿加拿大，

and that they had only one day in Montreal.

在蒙特利尔只待一天。

"That's too bad," he said. "Montreal is a city with wonderful restaurants and clubs.

他说：“这太遗憾了。蒙特利尔这个城市有极好的餐馆和俱乐部。

Most of us speak both English and French,

我们大多数人既说英语也说法语。

but the city has French culture and traditions.

但是这座城市具有法国文化和传统。

We love good coffee, good bread and good music."

我们喜欢好咖啡、好面包和好的音乐。”

That night as the train was speeding along the St Lawrence River toward the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast,

那天晚上，火车沿着圣劳伦斯河疾驰，朝圣劳伦斯湾驶去，一直开到远方的东海岸。

the cousins dreamed of French restaurants and red maple leaves.

姐妹俩做梦都在想着法国的餐馆和红色枫叶。

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