YOYO说旅行 | 驰骋大东欧第五集（上）

YOYO说旅行 | 驰骋大东欧第五集（上）
 
名师专栏三周啦！明天开始，王洁老师的《旧闻新说》将暂时和大家告别，取而代之的《如颖随形》将为大家搜罗雅思、托福的学习利器，助你轻松备考。

今天是周六，YOYO老师陪你一起放飞心情。离开罗马尼亚，我们去斯洛伐克走走。

错过《驰骋大东欧》前四集（克罗地亚、阿尔巴尼亚、“玫瑰之国”保加利亚和罗马尼亚）的朋友们可扫扫最下方二维码，关注新通微信号，查看“东欧游记一”、“东欧游记二”、“东欧游记三”、“东欧游记四”文章。

文中加粗部分是值得学习的词汇和短语【YOYO说词】，下划线部分为有借鉴意义的漂亮句型【YOYO说句】，正文后都有详解。

Slovakia

A trek to Slovakia's Tatra mountain peaks presents tough challenges for Kevin Rushby and family.

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If you've ever planned a family hiking trip, you'll know that such enterprises are often tricky. And tackling Slovakia's High Tatra was definitely ambitious. I'd tried hard while in the UK to gather information from the web, but most of it was in Slovak and anyway it all depended on our capabilities, a factor I hardly knew how to explain. Maddy, 12, was adamant that she hated walking and loved only swimming; my partner, Sophie, liked walking, but hated the cold. I passed responsibility to a hiking agency in Slovakia and prayed they would understand.

Weeks later, we were in the Slovakian city of Poprad, gateway to the Tatra mountains, which rise abruptly to the north, intimidatingly massive and jagged. We were packing. I was trying to explain that every gram of unnecessary weight would be regretted, while playing down the challenges ahead. I did not mention, for example, that one 2,422-metre peak went by the name of Satan, nor that our ultimate goal, Rysy, was even higher. I had started to sound like a supermarket self-service checkout: “Unexpected item in bagging area!” From a pile of gear that would send shivers through a Sherpa, I pulled out a huge pink bottle. Sophie trembled. “You can't expect me to go without moisturiser!” Our preparations took some time.

From Poprad a train service runs up to the Tatra's skirts. There are small towns even closer to the mountains: StarySmokovec and TatranskaLomnica being the largest and best-placed. From the latter a cable car can even take you to over 2,600 metres, but I didn't tell Maddy that.

YOYO说词

tough challenges 严峻挑战
enterprises 幽默的说法：为全家人安排崇山峻岭间的徒步旅行，当然是一项“事业”

ambitious 艰巨的
capabilities 潜能

was adamant that 坚定不移，决不更改注意

passed responsibility to 转嫁责任于…
gateway to 入口

abruptly 陡然（转向北面）
intimidatingly 令人生畏；继续膜拜作者使用副词的功力

jagged 嶙峋，严重崎岖不平
playing down 轻描淡写；为了说服家人也是用尽心机

went by 人称… …，被称为… …
ultimate goal 终极目标

send shivers through a Sherpa 让夏尔巴人都会瑟瑟发抖；夏尔巴人又称雪巴人、谢尔巴人，是尼泊尔和印度的山地民族，以“喜马拉雅山上的挑夫”著称（再次感谢百度百科）。在珠峰上土生土长的人们都会觉得哆嗦，可见是真的冷

trembled 颤抖着
moisturiser 保湿霜
cable car 缆车

YOYO说句
From Poprad a train service runs up to the Tatra's skirts. There are small towns even closer to the mountains: Stary Smokovec and Tatranska Lomnica being the largest and best-placed. From the latter a cable car can even take you to over 2,600 metres, but I didn't tell Maddy that.

旅途当中经常会出现这样的状况，存在不止一条路线或交通工具，这时就会面临选择。选择的过程、因素、结果等都可以成为述及昔日旅行时非常有价值的信息，YOYO再次建议大家在遇到 EVENT 中的旅行题时说一说（之前几篇连载对这一点也有涉及）。

下周六请继续关注：Slovakia 斯洛伐克（中）
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