英语听书《海底两万里》第444期 第27章 南极(3)

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I got out, Conseil at my heels, leaving the two men in the skiff. 我跳下小艇，后面跟着康塞尔，那两个人留在艇中。

Over an extensive area, the soil consisted of that igneous¹ gravel² called tuff, reddish in color as if made from crushed bricks.  土质在很长的空间上现出锗红色的凝灰岩，就像一层层的砖石构成的一样。

The ground was covered with slag³, lava⁴ flows, and pumice stones.  火山的烧石，喷出的火石，浮石的石屑遍布地上。

Its volcanic⁵ origin was unmistakable.  人们不可能不认识这陆地的构成是火山的来源。

In certain localities thin smoke holes gave off a sulfurous odor, showing that the inner fires still kept their wide-ranging power.  在某些地方还有轻微的喷烟，发出硫磺气味，证明内部的火仍然保持着它伸张发展的力量。

Nevertheless, when I scaled a high escarpment, I could see no volcanoes within a radius⁶ of several miles.  可是，我攀上一座高耸的悬崖，半径几海里的圆周内望不见火山。

In these Antarctic districts, as is well known, Sir James Clark Ross had found the craters⁷ of Mt.Erebus and Mt.Terror in fully⁸ active condition on the 167th meridian⁹ at latitude¹⁰ 77 degrees 32. 大家知道，在南极地带内，，詹姆斯·罗斯在东经160度，纬度77度32分上，找到了还在活动的爱列贝斯和铁罗尔火山喷口。

The vegetation on this desolate¹¹ continent struck me as quite limited.  这个荒凉大陆的植物看来是极端有限。

A few lichens¹² of the species Usnea melanoxanthra sprawled¹³ over the black rocks.  一些单条黑色的苔藓品种丛生，铺在黑色岩石上。

The whole meager¹⁴ flora¹⁵ of this region consisted of certain microscopic¹⁶ buds, rudimentary diatoms made up of a type of cell positioned between two quartz-rich shells, plus long purple and crimson¹⁷ fucus plants, buoyed¹⁸ by small air bladders and washed up on the coast by the surf. 某种微生草木，原始硅藻，在两片介壳中间聚起来的石英质的细胞植物，真红和猩红的黑角菜，紧贴在退潮送到岸上来的鱼类上面，以上就是组成这个地方的整个植物界。

The beach was strewn with mollusks: small mussels, limpets, smooth heart-shaped cockles, and especially some sea butterflies with oblong, membrane-filled bodies whose heads are formed from two rounded lobes¹⁹.  沿岸有一些软体动物，小砚、蛇类，心脏形的光滑贝，特别有那些长方形、膜质、头由两个圆突的耳叶形成的触须贝。

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