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（单词翻译）

 Already I can feel the wind changing. And the Icelanders have a saying -- if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes, and it will get a lot, lot worse. 

 
I’m in the wilderness1 in Iceland. Here, there are huge freezing rivers like this. And another storm with 50-mile-an-hour arctic winds has whipped up, and the temperature has plummeted2 to minus 15 degrees. It’s really blowing here, but I’ve got to get across this river somehow. And this isn’t the narrowest part, but it’s the shallowest bit of the river. And I can use this to my advantage. And you can see the rocks in it creating like these eddies3 of slack water behind them. And I can use them to go from one to the next and then out. But this water is going to be freezing cold, especially the wind-chill factor. So I’ve got to do everything I can to make sure my clothes especially my top half stay dry. Soaking wet clothes in these conditions are lethal4. So I’m keeping my clothes dry by wrapping them in my waterproof5 jacket. I’m facing upstream into the water. It’s easier to keep my balance. I can’t afford to slip here. 
 
When I’m across, I know all of these clothes have actually stayed amazingly dry in that. And then what they used to say in the army, ‘if we ever complain of being cold, then make a super piece. ’

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1 wilderness SgrwS     
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠
参考例句：
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
2 plummeted 404bf193ceb01b9d9a620431e6efc540     
v.垂直落下，骤然跌落( plummet的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • Share prices plummeted to an all-time low. 股票价格暴跌到历史最低点。
  • A plane plummeted to earth. 一架飞机一头栽向地面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 eddies c13d72eca064678c6857ec6b08bb6a3c     
（水、烟等的）漩涡，涡流( eddy的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Viscosity overwhelms the smallest eddies and converts their energy into heat. 粘性制服了最小的旋涡而将其能量转换为热。
  • But their work appears to merge in the study of large eddies. 但在大旋涡的研究上，他们的工作看来却殊途同归。
4 lethal D3LyB     
adj.致死的；毁灭性的
参考例句：
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
5 waterproof Ogvwp     
n.防水材料；adj.防水的；v.使...能防水
参考例句：
  • My mother bought me a waterproof watch.我妈妈给我买了一块防水手表。
  • All the electronics are housed in a waterproof box.所有电子设备都储放在一个防水盒中。

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