约塞米蒂国家公园

Yosemite National Park in California

如果你前往加利福尼亚的约塞米蒂国家公园

shows just how powerful ice is

你会对冰如何塑造超大尺寸的景观

at shaping the landscape on a gigantic scale.

有深刻印象

Rising up from the valley floor is an icon of nature.

许多悬崖被雕刻成为史诗

And a climber's mecca, El Capitan.

和攀岩者的圣地，酋长岩

For Leo Holding, an extreme climber,nothing quite matches this.

对于世界最好的攀岩者里奥侯丁来说 没其他悬崖比得上它

And it's the ice that has made El Cap

冰雕刻出酋长岩

into perhaps the greatest challenge in rock climbing.

使它或许成为攀岩运动中最大的挑战

We call El Cap the Big Daddy.

我们叫酋长岩做老爹

This is 1,000 metres high and it's damn near vertical the whole way.

它有一千米高 整个路径几乎是垂直的

Your initial reaction is terror.

你最初的反应是恐怖

The scale of it is really intimidating, even to extremely experienced climbers.

这对于有经验的攀岩者来说都是很困难的

There's basically no easy way up it.

没有简单的路线攀登

It's the hardest cliff to climb in the world.

这是世界上最难攀爬的悬崖

The rock face is almost vertical.

岩石表面几乎是垂直的

重点讲解

1、challenge

挑战;难题

I like a big challenge and they don't come much bigger than this.

我喜欢大的挑战，而所有挑战中再没有比这更大的了。

The new government's first challenge is the economy.

新政府面临的第一个难题是经济问题。

(成功地)应对挑战，迎接挑战

The new Germany must rise to the challenge of its enhanced responsibilities.

一个崭新的德国必须迎接挑战，承担更多的责任。

They rose to the challenge of entertaining 80 schoolchildren for an afternoon.

他们一个下午成功接待了80名学童。

怀疑，质疑(真实性、价值、权威等)

Democratic leaders have challenged the president to sign the bill.

民主党领袖对总统签署这项法案提出了质疑。

The move was immediately challenged by two of the republics.

此项动议立即遭到其中两个共和国的反对。

2、reaction

反应；回应；反响

Reaction to the visit is mixed.

对这次访问的反应不一。

The initial reaction of most participants is fear.

多数参与者的最初反应是恐惧。

反对;反抗;抵制

All new fashion starts out as a reaction against existing convention.

所有新时尚都是从打破现有常规开始的。

Her three years of freedom seemed like a reaction against that childhood.

她那3年的自由仿佛是对孩童时代的反叛。

抵制；抵触

Premature moves in this respect might well provoke a reaction against the reform..

在这方面不成熟的举动很可能引发对改革的抵触情绪。

The government response seems to be the result of strong public reaction against the police apathy.

政府的回应似乎是公众强烈抵制警察冷漠执法的结果。