妙语佳句:

原句:Here, our journey heads northwards into one of China's wildest places.

解析:head:朝向

We are heading home.

我们正向家的方向走去。

原句:Leaving Kashgar and the Silk Road behind.

解析:leave behind:留下, 遗留

I leave behind my dreams and I hasten to your call.

我把梦想丢下，来奔赴我的召唤。

All I leave behind me is only what I found.

而今我仅留下找寻到的点滴。

原句:Its majestic peaks are nearly as high as the Himalayas.

解析:as...as...:像...一样, 和...同样...

The dining-room is twice as big as the kitchen.

餐厅是厨房的两倍大。

原句:For much of the year it's bound up in ice.

解析:bind up:紧紧束缚在 ... 里, 埋头于(bound是bind的过去式和过去分词形式）

She bound up her hair with a handkerchief.

她用手绢把头发扎了起来。

He seems very bound up in his work.

他似乎非常喜欢自己的工作。

考考你:

这座伟岸的山脉坐落于中国最西北省区。

他的宏伟顶峰几乎逼近喜马拉雅山巅峰。

上期答案:

But not all desert communities world as resourceful as Turpan

But the Silk Road's most famous city managed to survive