3) metropolis n. 主要城市
4) tundra n. 冻原，冻土带
5) fjord n. 峡湾
6) volcano n. 火山
7) density n. 密度
8) aurora borealis 北极光
9) formidable （法语）即incredible，不可思议的，难以置信的
10) spot v. 发现，准确定位
11) solar a. 太阳的
12) El Castillo （西班牙语）城堡
13) multiplex n. 多功能放映场影剧院
14) paradise n. 天堂，乐园
15) gargantuan a. 庞大的，巨大的
16) gorgeous a. 华丽的
17) dazzle v. 使眼花缭乱
18) feat n. 功绩，业绩
19) recede v. 退去，退远
20) strata n. 地层，stratum的复数
★★《2003年11月号-第43期-Disc02-05》★★
1)Exhilarating Rides-Top 2)Roller Coasters in Europe
Number 3, it’s Shock Wave, Europe’s only stand up roller coaster. It’s in the English Midlands.
Shock Wave is a 3)cracking 90 seconds. First you get settled into your positions, then you get smoothly taken up the lift hill, giving you an opportunity to prepare for what’s to come. And that’s a one hundred foot drop towards the earth. You hit the first loop at high speed. It’s the world’s largest stand-up 4)loop. The rest of the ride is no picnic. Shock Wave turns you upside down a further three times and every one is a winner.
Number 2, Colossos!
One hundred and twenty-five thousand pieces of timber, a height of over one hundred and ninety-five feet, speeds of over 75 miles an hour. It’s no exaggeration to say that Colossos is a giant among roller coasters.
Hamburg is the nearest city. Colossos gives the smoothest ride of any coaster up this one hundred and ninety-six-foot lift hill. You turn around to see the enormous terror that awaits. Then you head down this huge drop-three seconds that feels like a lifetime. Before you can recover, you rise again to a huge height and another terrifying drop awaits. Colossos then banks all the way back around, to bring you face to face with some more giant hills. Colossus sure is a must for wooden coaster fans.
It’s time to reveal Europe’s number one coaster king. And it’s two for one-5)Nemesis and 6)Oblivion. From London, take a two-hour train journey to Alton Towers, a giant theme park that’s a big draw with everyone.
Riders climb 70 feet above the ground and get a great view of the magnificent, 7)stately home. Then Oblivion stops for three terrifying seconds. You’re filled with fear, and then the ride drops you down. But this is no simple drop. This is drop is 8)vertical. It plunges you one hundred feet down into oblivion. Oblivion is the world’s steepest roller coaster, 9)manipulating every emotion to make the ride as thrilling, and downright terrifying, as possible. Then, the drop takes you to a speed of 68 miles an hour and the rider feels like it’s never going to end.
Nemesis is Oblivion’s neighbour. It’s a minute and a half of 10)intense thrills. The first drop takes you into a 11)mammoth 12)barrel roll at a speed of fifty miles an hour. The ride then dives down into a bend under a walkway, before going up into a tremendous loop that rises above the station. But the ride isn’t over here. It turns around in the trees, dives back down into the ground, followed by another giant loop and a final inversion. It’s an exhilarating ride that will leave you wanting more and more.
Where lesser coasters cruise leisurely back into the station, Nemesis has your heart in your mouth from start to stop. Nemesis and Oblivion make perfect partners and earn a place at number one in our countdown.
欧洲最刺激的云霄飞车
老三当属欧洲唯一的直立式云霄飞车“冲击波”了。它位于英格兰的中部地区。
乘坐“冲击波”的过程是激动人心的90秒钟。在座位上坐好之后，你被平稳地带到山头，为即将来临的离地100英尺的俯冲做好准备。你先是要高速冲进一个世界上最大的直立式回旋圈道。余下的旅程也不轻松，“冲击波”将再把你头脚颠倒翻转三次，每一次都会让你满意。
排行老二的是“巨人”！
十二万五千根的木料，超过195英尺的高度，超过75英里的运行时速。相对其它云霄飞车而言，称之为“巨人”毫不为过。
距离它最近的城市是汉堡。巨人能比其他任何云霄飞车更为平稳地攀上196英尺的山头。一转身你便能感觉到无比的恐惧即将来临。之后你开始一直往下冲，虽只有三秒钟的时间，却好像一生般漫长。你还没回过神来，就又升到了一个极高处，等待着你的又是一个恐怖的俯冲。之后“巨人”才歪歪扭扭地一路返回，沿途你有机会与一些巨大的山丘“亲密接触”。对于木制云霄飞车的发烧友来说，“巨人”是绝对不可错过的。
现在该来揭晓欧洲云霄飞车的头号老大了。它们是并列称王的两兄弟：“复仇女神”和“湮没”。从伦敦坐两个小时的火车就来到了爱尔顿塔，这是一个对每个人都有吸引力的超大型主题乐园。
乘客们被“湮没”带到离地70英尺的高处，一览爱尔顿塔宏伟壮丽的美景。接下来是让人透不过气来的长达三秒钟的静止，这时，你内心充满恐惧，这时，“湮没”突然带着你向下俯冲。这可不是一般的俯冲，而是垂直的降落。它陡然把你抛下100英尺，仿佛湮没到了无知无觉的世界。“湮没”是世界上最陡的云霄飞车，能够调动你的所有情绪，体验极致的刺激和彻底的惊惧。下降时速高达68英里，车上的乘客只觉得仿佛不会有终点。
“复仇女神”与“湮没”比邻。这是一次一分半钟让人高度紧张，又倍感刺激的过程。它第一次俯冲将以每小时50英里的速度让你横滚旋下，接着“复仇女神”飞奔而下穿进一条人行道下的弯道，随后又向上攀到高耸在车站上方的一个巨大的回旋圈道。这还不算完，它在树丛中调过头来，冲回到地面上，最后再来一个大回旋和翻转。这趟兴奋的乘车经历，让你不由地希望多来几次。
有一些较小的云霄飞车是悠哉游哉地回到车站的，而“复仇女神”却让你的心自始至终都悬在嗓子眼里。“复仇女神”与“湮没”的搭档如此完美，从而在我们的统计排名中赢得了头把交椅。
注释:
1) exhilarating a. 令人振奋的
2) roller coaster 过山车
3) cracking a. 发出劈啪声响的
4) loop n. 筋斗，环道
5) Nemesis n. 复仇女神
6) oblivion n. 湮没
7) stately a. 雄伟的
8) vertical a. 垂直的
9) intense a. 紧张的
10) manipulate v. 操纵，摆布
11) mammoth a. 巨大的，庞大的
12) barrel roll 横滚，即在保持前进方向不变的情况下作出水平滚转动作。此指过山车在向下冲时随轨道旋转而下。
★★《2003年11月号-第43期-Disc02-06》★★
I Have A Wish
名人妙语述“我”愿
I want a perfect world; I want to choose all the winners.
我想要完美的世界。我想选出全部的优胜者。
--美国著名影星辛·潘（Sean Penn）
And I hope to restore respect to the 1)presidency.
我希望恢复对总统任期的尊重。
--美国已故总统尼克松 (Richard Nixon)
I would love to meet somebody; I would love to be 2)swept off my feet.
我想遇到一些人，令我激动不已。
--美国著名影星妮歌·基曼(Nicole Kidman)
I want to try to find out new cures for diseases. And another one of the things I want to do is to be politician, try to bring peace to the world. And, third 3)occupation that I want to do is be an 4)aeronautical engineer and build space stations in space.
我想尽力去寻求治疗疾病的新方法。另一样我想做的是政治家，为世界带来和平。第三样我想从事的职业是航天工程师，在太空中建太空站。
--美国九岁上高中的小天才格雷格·史密夫（Greg Smith）
风靡全球的漫画人物Charley Brown和 Snoopy的作者查尔斯·M·舒尔茨(Charles M Schulz)--“我”的作品便是我的写照：
If you are to read the script, oh, for just a few months, you would know me because everything that I am goes in the script. All of my fears, my 5)anxieties, my joys, and almost even all of my experiences go into that script. They are me, that is me: what I'm thinking of, what I am writing, and what the characters are doing.
要是你去读我的作品，啊，只要读几个月，你就会了解我了，因为我的一点一滴都融入到了作品中。我所有的恐惧、焦虑、快乐，甚至几乎我所有的经历都融合在作品里了。他们全部都是我，那就是我：我想到的，我写到的，以及每个角色所做的。
美国《六十分钟》电视节目的资深记者安迪·鲁尼(Andy Rooney)--“我”来年的计划：
Mozart died when he was thirty-five but his music is still played 212 years later, good as ever. This is a special moment that I’ve 6)dreaded. It seems like a good time, though, to make a personal announcement. I’ve been writing for television since there was television. I’ve done 800 of these essays; in the twenty-five years I’ve been on ”60 Minutes” I’ve saved some money; I’d like to travel; I’d like to spend more time with my family. What I want to tell you is: I am not going to do any of those things and I’ll be back here again next year.
莫扎特35岁时就过世了，但他的音乐在212年后依然广为流传，美妙一如当初。现在是我一直害怕的特殊时刻。不过，看起来这真是个发表个人公告的好机会。自有电视以来，我便一直为电视撰稿。我已写了800篇这样的评论了，并且25年来我一直做《六十分钟》的节目。我攒了些钱，我喜欢旅游，我想与家人共渡更多的时光。但是，我想告诉大家的是，我没有打算要做以上任何一件事，我明年还会出现在这个节目中。
注释:
1) presidency n. 总统任期
2) sweep sb. off sb. feet 使人狂热（或激动）
3) occupation n. 职业
4) aeronautical a. 航空学的
5) anxiety n. 忧虑, 热望
6) dread v. 惧怕, 担心
★★《2003年11月号-第43期-Disc02-07》★★
Michael Jackson: My Honest Truth
Well if I sat here and played some 1)chords whatever and say I’m going to write the best song I’ve ever written, nothing happens. Something in the heavens has to say, “Look, this is the time that this is going to be laid on you, and this is when I want you to have it” Artists seem to get in the way of the music, get out of the way of the music, you know, don’t, write the music. Let the music write itself.
You know he practiced us with a belt in his hands and if you missed a step he would 2)tear you up. I got it a lot of times, he was 3)tough. I don’t think he realized to this day how scared, so scared that we would 4)regurgitate.
That's why to this day I don’t 5)lay a finger on my children. I don’t want them to ever feel that way about me, ever. And he didn’t allow us to call him Daddy. You know I wanted to call him Daddy so bad. He said I’m not Daddy, I’m Joseph. I don’t allow my children to call me Michael; I say I’m Daddy, just the opposite. So when people say the 6)abuse, abuse?--That’s not true!
I've said it many times. My greatest inspiration comes from kids, every song I write, every dance I do, all the poetry I write is all inspired from that level of 7)innocence, that 8)consciousness of purity and children have that. I see God in the face of children, and, I just love being around that all the time.
I've had no 9)plastic surgery on my face, just my nose, it helped me breathe better so I can hit higher notes-as I can remember, just two.
Everybody in Hollywood get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery wasn’t invented for Michael Jackson. Just that though, not the whole face, just the nose, they try to say, “Why did you change it?” It’s not true-it’s just the nose.
I was changing, I’m telling you the honest truth: I don’t do anything to my face.
迈克尔·杰克逊--我的故事，我的心
我的音乐态度
呃，如果我坐在这里，弹弹和弦什么的，说我要写出自己有史以来最棒的歌，那什么都出不来。天堂里有把声音会说，看，这就是我要把它交给你的时候了，就是这时候我想你得到它。艺术家似乎参与音乐但又逃离音乐，也就是，不要去写音乐。让音乐自己发挥出来。
我的童年阴影与儿童的关系
他（爸爸）训练我们时手里拿着根皮带。如果你踏错了一个舞步他会把你撕个粉碎。我挨了好多次揍了，他脾气暴躁得很。我觉得他时至今日都意识不到那是怎样的害怕，我们（兄弟们）害怕得老是恶心呕吐。
就因为这，我到今时今日也不会对我的孩子动手。我不想他们对我也有同样的感觉，永远也不要。他不让我们叫他“爸爸”，你知道啊，我想叫他“爸爸”想得多厉害。但他说，我不是“爸爸”，我是“约瑟夫”。我不准我的孩子叫我“迈克尔”，我说我是“爸爸”，刚好相反。所以别人说我虐待（孩子），虐待？没那回事！
我说过好多次了。我最伟大的灵感源自小孩子。我写的每首歌，我跳的每段舞以及我写的所有诗都来自对那种天真和那份纯洁的感悟，而那正是小孩子所拥有的。我从小孩子的脸上看到了上帝，我总是喜欢在其周围。
我对自己的脸的辩解
我从没在我的脸上动过手术，只是我的鼻子动过，因为它方便我呼吸，让我可以唱出更高的调子-就我记得的，就只是动过两次。
好莱坞的每个人都动过整形手术。整形手术并不是为迈克尔·杰克逊而发明的。不过就只是鼻子而已，不是整张脸。只是鼻子，他们总是问，你为什么老是整容？那不是真的，仅仅鼻子而已。
我那时一直（因成长）改变着，我现在告诉你的是确凿的事实：我不会对自己的脸做什么。
注释:
1) chord n. 弦, 和音
2) tear up 撕碎
3) tough a. 凶恶的, 粗暴的
4) regurgitate v.(使)涌回,(使)反刍
5) lay a finger on 动手打
6) abuse n. 虐待, 辱骂
7) innocence n. 清白
8) consciousness n. 意识,觉悟
9) plastic surgery整形手术
★★《2003年11月号-第43期-Disc02-08》★★
Boldly Live As You've Never Lived Before
Scheme No.1
Brenda’s Pick
1、拍摄登月照片的哈苏相机
A lot of people say that the Hasselblad is the Rolls Royce of cameras and that maybe, but I like to believe it is the Mercedes of cameras. Basically because it’s so 1)robust, it’s a reliable tool. We use the best 2)components, supplied to the tightest 3)specifications, hand 4)assembled by the most skillful 5)craftsmen. And the process of making a Hasselblad camera is actually seven-weeks long processes. On every 6)NASA 7)mission since 1962, all the images Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, they were all shot on Hasselblad.
2、世界上最完好的漫画书
We (Metropolis Collectibles, N.Y.) are the largest 8)dealership of 9)vintage comic books in the world. We have an 10)inventory of over 100,000 pre-1975 comic books, anything from Batman #1 to Superman #1, Action Comics #1, first appearances of any characters, and 11)whereas most companies only have one or two of a comic book, if that many. The most expensive comic book we have here is an All Star Comics #3. It is in 12)pristine, near 13)mint 9.4 condition, which is a scale of 1 to 10: 9.4 usually means a perfect copy, anything 14)beyond that is extra perfect. This is the highest grade known copy to exist in the world. This comic book is worth approximately 165,000 dollars.
3、“日不落”庄园
Crofts New Hall is an amazing concept. The 15)inspiration behind the design was that it was a very, very 16)level site sitting in a tree surrounded area, very, very private. The design actually 17)blends with the ground, and it actually 18)extrudes itself out of the ground and 19)mingles with it. The house is being designed to 20)take full advantage of the passage of the sun during the day, so in the morning the sun rises in the east, it will shine into the bedroom 21)wings and 22)illuminate the day so you wake up feeling happy. And as it works through the day, it shines across the house and 23)ends up on the pool area in the dance floor, in the dining room in the evening for a perfect end to the day.
4、一支蒸蒸日上的英国球会
When I told my wife that I was going to buy the club, she went, “Oh, my God!” It was a 24)bankrupt club and we brought it for 75,000 pounds. To make the club what it is today, approximately 350,000 (pounds) in the new buildings and the new front and other areas that we have to do. In one direction, it was an expensive progress, but in another direction, the supporters this year were really fantastic. Hastings United is now an 25)asset rather than a 26)liability, and I think it’s worth a lot more than when we bought it.
5、一双红色鳄皮靴
I used French 27)tanned crocodile. And measure their feet, I take eight to ten 28)measurements off of each foot from which I make a custom made pair of 29)lasts. And the last is the shoe 30)mould that I will actually mould and stretch the leather over once the shoe is made. From that point, there are actually 372 steps to the assembly process before the boot is actually finished. And then the client comes back in, which is about a year and a half later because of my 31)backlog, and we try them on. Most of the time they put them on and dance away out of the shop.
6、主题派对
At London Launch what we do it put people in direct contact with the very best companies in the event industry so you got 32)venues, you’ve got 33)catering, you’ve got 34)themeing, you’ve got 35)choreography, 36)lighting, 37)staging, a huge amount goes into it. In terms of the most spectacular party you could ever imagine, there are endless possibilities. Really there are no limits, but you have to know what’s out there, what’s available to you.
Scheme No.2
Alice's Wonderland
1、游艇新贵波斯88
The Persian 88 is equipped with two 38)diesel engine MTU, 16 39)cylinders for 2000 horsepower each, that push the boat at a top speed of 44 40)knots. That’s right, 2000 horsepower creating 44 knots or 51 miles per hour of top-end speed. The kind of person that would buy Persian 88 of course is somebody who wants to 41)show off...
2、渔人岛阳光别墅
Fisher Island near Miami is home to the most expensive real estate in America. There is two things that really make Fisher Island so attractive to the international buyer. One is safety and the other is security and privacy. People don’t lock their homes up here on Fisher Island, they leave their cars unlocked. It’s a different way of life and you really feel as though you are in a 42)Caribbean island all to itself. It’s a resort setting. You have 17 tennis courts, you have a nine hole championship golf course. We have six restaurants, we have dozens of swimming pools on the island, we have miles of sandy white beach.
3、一辆劳斯莱斯银刺
Rolls Royce is certainly the best car in the world. The Rolls Royce Silver Spur is a 300 brake horsepower rocket with a top speed of 160 43)MPH and the Phantom II is an 8-litre 6-cylinder head 44)turner with the engine a 45)Silver Lady, that’s no mean 46)feat.
