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Snow, we said.
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Snow already? Winter up there in that far point in the sky?
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Several peaks—a range of shining pearl like a shimmer of unearthly light. The land below, ourselves, everything, fell away and vanished in the dark.
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We plunged into forest and the headlights made a small tunnel in the night ahead.
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● 长句长段之后，忽来这么短短三个字的一段，自然令人耳目一新。而文章的内容，亦已转换：远处白峰，乃是雪山。山下天气，犹如暖和阳春三月，峰上竟已积雪，未免令人难信。
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● 先看见孤峰一座，后来又看见数峰横列，远处看不真切，仅见珠光耀目，如有天际异光（unearthly light），在空中闪耀（shimmer）而已。
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● plunged：深入。现在汽车开入森林，林中更是漆黑一团，全凭汽车的车灯（headlights），射出一条狭长的光衖（tunnel：隧道），冲破前面的黑暗，往前开去。
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The day and evening remained as warm as summertime. We stopped at Conway for supper in a restaurant, continued on to a place John knew of where we got rooms for the night.
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● John knew of是定语从句。John所认识的那个地方。got rooms for the night：借宿。Conway：地名。
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Warm in the morning too; but at first foggy and sunless, even drizzly. The forests were wet, the sky dark and low. John Somes, the mountaineer, said he thought it would clear. Anyway, unless it really poured we might as well try it.
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● 第一晚在山脚下歇过，第二天起来，天还是很温暖，可是起先雾多天暗，甚至于略有濛濛细雨（drizzly是形容词）。第一句主语it，动词was，都经省略。
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● John Somes是三人中爬山最内行的一个，见前文。clear是动词，=become clear。
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● poured：倾盆大雨，雨下如注。除非雨真下大了，否则我们还是不妨一试。as well：试与不试反正一样，还是一试的好。it指登山之事。
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Then, as we stood waiting and gazing, a vast piece of mountain pageantry occurred. In the overhead darkness a ragged blue hole showed itself, then splashes of pale sun. Mountain shoulders suddenly took shape high among the curtains of light and cloud. The west wind came down over Tuckerman’s Ravine and moved the whole cloud-mass before it.
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● pageantry：壮观，奇景。我们正在守候眺望之际，忽然一幕山景奇观，浩瀚雄伟，在我们面前展开了。
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● 顶上天空，色本浓重，现在忽然裂出青色一角，在此破碎不整（ragged）的裂孔之中，淡淡的阳光，像水花（splashes）似的飞溅下来。
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● 云破天青，在光幕云层之中，群峰（Mountain shoulders：山隆起如肩状者）突然显露，耸立高空。took shape：成形，现形。本来虚无缥缈，渐渐轮廓显明。
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● Tuckerman’s Ravine：为华盛顿山中一峡谷之名。西风从峡谷上方吹来，滚滚白云，俱为吹开。before it：云在前面，风在后面，风吹云动。
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We jumped and scurried like starters in a gold rush. Knapsacks were stuffed with food and sweaters and cameras. Matches? Pocket knives? Compass? Yes, all those in spite of a certain disdain on the part of John Somes, who was accustomed to Canadian Rockies. Light of foot, tireless, happy as puppies, we started at midmorning up the Tuckerman trail.
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● 天既已转晴，我们可以正式登山了。scurried：快跑，急行，仓皇而走。gold rush：淘金热。我们上山之前的匆忙与兴奋，好像是一窝蜂地出发去开采金矿的人。
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● Compass：指南针。登山以前，各物都检点一下，看看有什么遗漏的没有。
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● all those：要带的东西全带了。disdain：鄙夷不屑的神气。Somes是爬山老手，看见我们出发之前，这样小题大做的紧张，脸上似乎露出一种（a certain）瞧不起的神气。Rockies即Rocky Mountains，通常译作落矶山脉，从美国南部新墨西哥州起，纵贯美国、加拿大以迄阿拉斯加。其在加拿大的一部分，高峰甚多，远在这座华盛顿山之上。
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● Light of foot：脚步轻快。tireless：精神抖擞。puppies：小狗。midmorning
:上午九、十点钟。Tuckerman trail：山上小径之名。
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Of the three who stepped so lightly up the steep trail that brightening October morning, one would not return. But we went in innocence and immense confidence. The sun came out and filled the glades with yellow warmth. Blood ran joyfully in our veins, and we could have climbed to the moon. The cool breeze lifted our damp hair and refreshed the skin under our open shirts. Clouds rolled up over the mountain wall and fanned out into the high blue. The mountain torrents sang through the forests.
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● innocence：天真，无知。一行三人，有一个是不能生还的了，但是出发的时候，我们怎么会知道？只是糊里糊涂高兴而已。immense：极大的。confidence：自信。我们深信力能应付，前途平安。
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