It's not so long ago in the life story of the continent, just 13,000 years since this was a virgin territory. And back then, different giants cruised the landscape. Imagine if we could travel back in time and see these plains as they were then, emerging from the grip of the last great ice age, an area of pristine wilderness, stretching for one and a half million square miles, untouched by man and brimming with extraordinary animals.
But 13,000 years ago, an even more extraordinary animal arrived. What if we could follow in the footsteps of these first hunters as they entered the unknown and staked their claim to these vast spaces? What would this wild new world have looked like through their eyes? And what strange creatures would they have encountered here on the American Serengeti?
1 metropolis
n.首府;大城市
參考例句:
Shanghai is a metropolis in China.上海是中國的大都市。
He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis.大都市的花花世界使他感到眼花繚亂。
2 virgin
n.處女,未婚女子;adj.未經(jīng)使用的;未經(jīng)開發(fā)的
參考例句:
Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去過原始森林嗎?
There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在邊遠(yuǎn)地區(qū)有大片大片未開墾的土地。
3 pristine
adj.原來的,古時的,原始的,純凈的,無垢的
參考例句:
He wiped his fingers on his pristine handkerchief.他用他那塊潔凈的手帕擦手指。
He wasn't about to blemish that pristine record.他本不想去玷污那清白的過去。
4 wilderness
n.杳無人煙的一片陸地、水等,荒漠
參考例句:
She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她趕著牛群穿過荒野。
Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒涼地區(qū)的教育不是錢財問題。