考研英語時文賞讀（82）：“死亡之峰”為何讓人趨之若鶩？

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　　Everest: Three more die amid overcrowding near summit

　　珠穆朗瑪峰：在峰頂附近，又有三人因過度擁擠致死

　　Three more climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to seven in a week - more than the total for the whole of last year. The three died of exhaustion while descending on Thursday.

　　3名珠峰攀登者的死亡使得一周之內(nèi)登山死亡人數(shù)升至7人，已經(jīng)超過了去年一整年的死亡人數(shù)。這三人是在周二下山的途中因力竭而死。

　　It comes amid traffic jams near the summit as record numbers make the ascent, despite calls to limit the number of climbing permits.

　　盡管有聲音要求限制允許登山的人數(shù)，但是今年登山人數(shù)還是達(dá)到了新高，以致在靠近峰頂?shù)南＠锱_階處出現(xiàn)了人多擁堵的情況。

　　Nepal has issued 381 permits at $11,000 (€8,600) each for the spring climbing season at the world’s highest peak.

　　今春的攀登季，尼泊爾政府已經(jīng)簽發(fā)了381例登山許可，每人收取11000美元的費用（約合8600歐元）。

　　Two Indian climbers - Kalpana Das, 52, and Nihal Bagwan, 27 - died while scaling back down the mountain on Thursday.

　　兩名來自印度的登山者也是在本周二下山途中喪生，一位是今年52歲的卡帕那·達(dá)斯，另一位是今年27歲的尼哈·巴格萬。

　　Local tour organiser Keshav Paudel told AFP news agency that Bagwan had been "stuck in the traffic for more than 12 hours and was exhausted". A 65-year-old Austrian climber died on the northern Tibet side of the mountain.

　　當(dāng)?shù)氐穆糜谓M織者科沙夫·保德爾告訴法新社，巴格萬當(dāng)時由于上下?lián)矶?ldquo;已經(jīng)困在原地12個多小時，最后實在支撐不住，失掉了年輕的生命”。一名65歲的奧地利登山者是在珠峰北邊，也就是靠近西藏那邊喪生的。

　　An Indian and an American lost their lives on the mountain on Wednesday, while an Irish professor, Séamus Lawless, is presumed dead after falling on 16 May.

　　周三兩名分別來自印度和美國的登山者也相繼死亡，還有一名來自愛爾蘭的教授塞慕斯·勞樂斯在5月16號意外摔落，目前也被推定死亡。

　　Conditions this year have also been worse than usual, with high winds leaving a large number of climbers a narrow time frame to reach the summit. Five people are known to have died on Everest and one in Lhotse in the spring season last year.

　　今年的天氣情況也比往年更為惡劣，強(qiáng)風(fēng)天氣使得大量的登山者必須在有限的時間內(nèi)完成登頂。就大家所知道的就已有5人喪生，還有一位是去年春季在洛子峰那邊遭遇了不幸。

　　The number of people climbing Everest in 2019 could exceed last year’s record of 807 people reaching the summit. The rising numbers of people climbing - and dying - on Everest has led for calls for permits to be limited.

　　去年登頂珠峰的人數(shù)已經(jīng)達(dá)到了807人，而2019年的珠峰攀登人數(shù)可能會超過往年。隨著珠峰攀登人數(shù)的日益增多，死亡人數(shù)也開始上升，人們呼吁政府控制每年允許的登山人數(shù)。

　　(全文共280個詞，BBC)

　　?重難點詞匯：

　　exhaustion  n. 枯竭；耗盡；精疲力竭

　　descend  vi. 下降；下去；下來；遺傳；屈尊 vt. 下去；沿…向下

　　ascent  n. 上升；上坡路；登高

　　exceed  vt. 超過；勝過 vi. 超過其他

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