单元文化背景知识：Yeti
Yeti: Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
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初中文言文翻译A tibetian fortress below the mountains were the Yeti is suppod to roam.
The Himalaya Mountains, the highest range on Earth, have been referred to as the "roof of the world." If that is so, there is a mystery called the Yeti in our attic. In Tibetan the word me
ans "magical creature" and truly it is a emingly supernatural enigma in the shape of a hairy, biped creature that rembles a giant ape.
The Himalayas lie on the border between India, Nepal, and Tibet (now part of China). They are remote and forbidding. Large stretches around the rough valleys and peaks are uninhabited. The tallest mountain in the world, Everest, 29,028 feet high, lies half in Nepal, half in China. It is from Nepal, though, that most attempts to climb Everest, and the surrounding mountains, are made.
In Katmandu, the capitol of Nepal, a visitor finds himlf immerd in the Yeti legend. He is a commercial money maker for the tourist industry (there's even a Hotel named the "Yak and the Yeti") as well as legend, religion and fantasy to some of the Neplae people.
The first reliable report of the Yeti appeared in 1925 when a Greek photographer, N. A. Tombazi, working as a member of a British geological expedition in the Himalayas, was shown a creature moving in the distance across some lower slopes. The creature was al
most a thousand feet away in a narea with an altitude of around 15,000 feet.
投影仪连接电脑"Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to uproot or pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes," said Tombazi, "It showed up dark against the snow and, as far as I could make out wore no clothes." 冬瓜汤怎么做
现在我们学校The creature disappeared before Tombazi could take a photograph and was not en again. The group was descending, though, and the photographer went out of his way to e the ground were he had spotted the creature. Tombazi found footprints in the snow.
"They were similar in shape to tho of a man, but only six to ven inches long by four inches wide at the broadest part of the foot. The marks of five distinct toes and the instep were perfectly clear, but the trace of the heel "
There were 15 prints to be found. Each was one and one half to two feet apart. Then Tombazi lost the trail in thick brush. When the locals were asked to name the beast he'd s八大行星谁最大
een they told him it was a "Kanchenjunga demon." Tombazi didn't think he'd en a demon, but he couldn't figure out what the creature was either. Perhaps he'd en a wandering Buddhist or Hindu ascetic or hermit. As the years went by though and other Yeti stories surfaced, Tombazi began to wonder if he'd en one too.
Yeti reports usually come in the form of tracks found, pelts offered, shapes en at a distance, or rarely, actual face-to-face encounters with the creatures. Face to face encounters never come with rearchers looking for the Yeti, but with locals who stumble into the creature during their daily lives. 爱心故事
Some of the best tracks ever en were found and photographed by British mountaineers Eric Shipton and Micheal Ward in 1951. They found them on the southwestern slopes of the Menlung Glacier, which lies between Tibet and Nepal, at an altitude of 20,000 feet. Each print was thirteen inches wide and some eighteen inches long. The tracks emed fresh and Shipton and Ward followed the trail for a mile before it disappeared in hard ice.
Some scientists that viewed the photographs could not identify the tracks as from any known creature. Others, though, felt it was probably the trail of a languar monkey or red bear. They noted the tracks in snow, melted by the sun, can change shape and grow larger. Even so, the bear/monkey theory ems unlikely as both of the animals normally move on all four feet. The tracks were clearly that of a biped.
Shipton's and Ward's reputations argue against a hoax on their part and the remoteness and height of the trail's location argues against them being hoaxed.
Shipton's footprints were not the first or last discovered by climbers among the Himalayas.
Even Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, on their record ascent to the top of Mount Everest, in 1953, found giant foot prints on the way up.
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One of the more curious reports of a clo encounter with a Yeti occurred in 1938. Captain d'Auvergue, the curator of the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, India, was traveling the Himalayas by himlf when he became snowblind. As he neared death from exposure he was rescued by a nine foot tall Yeti that nurd him back to health until d'Auvergue was able to return home by himlf.
In many other stories, though, the Yeti hasn't been so benign. One Sherpa girl, who was tending her yaks, described being surprid by a large ape-like creature with black and brown hair. It started to drag her off, but emed to be startled by her screams and let her go. It then savagely killed two of her yaks. She escaped with her life and the incident was reported to the police, who found footprints.
