Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It is full of trash.
珠穆朗瑪峰是世界上最高的山峰,但它充滿了垃圾。
Many climbers leave trash there. A Sherpa who leads a cleanup team says that cleaning the trash will take many years. The Nepal government pays a team to clean the trash. This year, the team has taken away 11 tons of trash, four dead bodies, and a skeleton.
許多登山者在那裡留下了垃圾。 一位帶領清理隊的夏爾巴人說,清理這些垃圾將需要很多年。尼泊爾政府支付一個團隊來清理垃圾。今年,該團隊已經帶走了11噸垃圾、四具屍體和一副骨骼。
There may be 40-50 tons of trash in the last camp before the summit. The trash is old tents, food packs, gas bottles, and ropes. The trash is frozen at 8,000 meters. Cleaning is hard. There is bad weather and little air.
在通往山頂的最後一個營地可能有40到50噸的垃圾。垃圾包括舊帳篷、食品包裝、氣瓶和繩索。這些垃圾在8000米高的地方被凍住了。清理工作非常困難。那裡天氣惡劣,空氣稀薄。
New rules and more information will reduce new trash. But most of the trash is old. The oldest thing so far is a battery from 1957.
新規則和更多的信息將減少新的垃圾。但是大部分垃圾都是舊的。到目前為止最舊的垃圾是一個1957年的電池。
【Vocabulary字彙】
⛄sherpa = a local guide from Nepal 夏爾巴人,尼泊爾的當地嚮導
⛄skeleton = the bones in a body 骨骼
⛄summit = the highest point of a mountain 山頂
【Useful Expressions實用句型】
⛄to be full of something = to have lots and lots of one thing in one place 充滿某物
On weekends, Shilin night market is full of people. It’s very difficult to move!
⛄There is / There are = use this to talk about what is in a place 用來說明某地有…
In Mount Everest, there is a lot of trash, bad weather and little air.
In Taiwan, there are a lot of great places to hike, swim, and cycle.