尼亚加拉瀑布(双语)
来源：翻译钻研中央
尼亚加拉年夜瀑布已成了老得没牙的旅游景点。可是，如果你从飞机上俯瞰的话，它就成了全新的景不雅观。你会心识到，老得没牙的并不是尼亚加拉，而是我们不雅观赏它的体例已属陈腐。
年夜部分旅客老是尽年夜概靠近瀑布，看着水流轰叫而下。这让人着魔，呆若木鸡。旅客站在那边，被飞跃不断的激流及其强大的力量所折服。但尔后你会有如许的感受"那又如何样？水流到了悬崖边，固然要往下淌落了。“
但在空中你会马上看个一览无余。你看到瀑布的一边是安年夜要草率湖，另一边是伊利湖，把这两个源连接起来的是34英里长的尼亚加拉河。当飞机稍往下飞翔时，你会看到瀑布自己，沿着湖滨约有1英里宽的人行道，水从182英尺高的悬崖直冲上去，然后流进既深又窄的峡谷。你会顿悟你已看到了尼亚加拉瀑布的真面貌：瀑布在活动着，而7英里长的峡谷只是瀑布在活动时冲出来的轨迹。这一毕竟马上使你的设法完全窜改。从空中上看，水往下冲进峡谷的缘故原因好像是因为下面有低地。而现在你会年夜白，毕竟恰好相反：瀑布才是原因，而峡谷是功效。尼亚加拉峡谷看上往像是虫在苹果上咬出来的斑痕。
尼亚加拉瀑布与人们在山上看到的瀑布有所不合。山上看到的瀑布是一条飞下山腰的细流；有的高于尼亚加拉瀑布，年夜概比它美丽，但它们却没有尼亚加拉瀑布的那种气焰和迸发力。尼亚加拉瀑布属于分量级——一股巨流全部从悬崖上冲泻上去。
从上往下看到的理想景像是瀑布本身的激烈活动在凿峡谷。这是个很存心思的景不雅观。
本日，瀑布仍然一落千丈。不外，本世纪人们开始使用它了。过往常常往下冲的年夜量的水，现在都流过美国和加拿年夜的发电站。
在空中，你会了解美国与加拿年夜瀑布的理想差异。在美国境内的瀑布只占总水量的10百分，而加拿年夜境内的瀑布占90百分.加拿年夜境内的瀑布因为水量更年夜，所以它向上犹豫动得更快。和美国西部的年夜峡谷和山脉不合的是，尼亚加拉瀑布的壮不雅观是短期的——昨天它还在此地，本日算夜概会流失。
Niagara Falls has become a tired old tourist sight. But if you look it over in an airplane， it becomes something completely new. You realize that it is not tired； only our way of looking at it is tired. Most visitors go as close to the falls as possible， and watch the waters thundering down. It is fascinating， in a stupefying way. You stand there， hyptonized by the sheer force， the untiring action that goes on and on. But afterward you have a feeling - "So what， really？ The water comes to the cliff and， naturally， it falls down." But at altitude you see it all at once1. You see Lake Ontario on one side and Lake Erie on the other， and linking them the 34-mile Niagara River. Then， coming down lower， you see the falls themselves， along a front almost a mile wide， plunges over a 182-foot cliff and flows off through a deep， narrow gorge. And right away， with a flash of understanding2， you see the main fact about the Niagara Falls. The falls are moving， the seven-mile-long gorge is merely the track the falls have made as they move along. This instantly reverses all your ideas. On the ground it seemed that the water fell because there was this low place for it to fall into the gorge. Now you see it is the other way round. The falls are the cause， and the gorge is the result. Niagara Gorge looks like the track eaten into an apple by a worm. Niagara differs from the wateITlls you find in mountains， where a thin stream of water comes down a mountainside， half-flying. Some of them are much higher than3 Niagara， and perhaps more beautiful， but they lack4 mass and cutting power. Niagara belongs to the heavyweights - where a whole solid river plunges bodily over a cliff The real sight from above is the gigantic movement of the falls themselves， digging the gorge. The falls are still moving today. However， our century has tamed it a bit5. A lot of water that used to plunge down now goes through the electric power stations， both American and Canadian. Above in the air， you will understand the real difference between the American and Canadian falls. The American Falls get only about 10百分 of the water， while the Canadian Falls get 90百分. Because the volume of water is greater， the Canadian Falls are eroding far more rapidly. Unlike the mountains and canyons of the West， Niagara is a short- time glory that was here yesterday and will be gone tomorrow.注释： 1. all at once：突然。同at once（立刻）类似。只是语气上更加夸张是“恍然年夜悟”，一会儿全年夜白了。
2. a flash of understanding：突然间年夜白。Flash是“闪电”，年夜白的速度像闪电通俗的快，可见是很笼统的说法了。
3. much higher than：比……高多了。像much、far如许的词，背面接描述词要接比较级，而不能接原级。记着，我们常说的much better便是一个典范的例子。
4. lack：缺少。Lack这个词作动词时，可以直接接宾语。但作名词时，就要加介词of，然后再接缺少的东西。这便是动词lack和名词lack的区别。
5. our century has tamed it a bit：这句话就不能从字面上直接了解了。Our century理想上是指本世纪，a bit是有点的意思，引申为逐步。这句话理想上是说本世纪人类已经开始逐步降服他了。

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