0418点评《The young woman and the mountain》

单词/词组

1. down 下面？羽绒？
Layered in down and Gore-tex, ... Matrosova had planned to hike up the mountain range.

2. toe a line 足尖成一条线？听从指令？

疑难句

1. The decision to send a team in search of Matrosova belonged to the colonel.
原译文：以及派送一个小队搜救上校下属马特诺索瓦的决心。
终审稿：至于是否派一小队人员搜救马特诺索娃，则由上校决定。

2. Where the trees give way to open rocky terrain, there is no shelter from the punishing wind.
原译文：马特洛索娃所处的位置，树木让位于开阔的岩石地带，无法躲避凌厉的寒风。
终审稿：没有树木、只有岩石的开阔地带无法躲避凌厉的寒风。

3. Larson could recall only a half-dozen times when it had been this bad.
原译文：在如此恶劣的天气进行求援，拉森能够记起的救助只有六次。
终审稿：在拉森的记忆中，如此恶劣的天气只出现过六次。

4. It took nearly five hours to reach the location from which that first beacon — and three others since — had emanated.
原译文：救援人员花了近五个小时的时间抵达了若隐若现的第一个信标处（还有其它三个信标）。
终审稿：救援人员花了近五个小时的时间抵达了若隐若现的第一个信标处，以及此后出现的三个位置。

5. She could get through to 911.
原译文：她能逃过9.11。
终审稿：她可以联系到911.

6. How close he came in his attempt to rescue her.
原译文：在试图营救她之前如何接近她。
一审稿：在他试图营救她之前他到底离她有多远。
终审稿：营救她的尝试到底有多大胜算。

7. But her beacon was rated for 20-below.
原译文：但是她的信号灯在20度以下。
终审稿：但是她的信标级别低于20。

8. And though the ridgeline between these mountains is narrow, it is not as narrow as the line between pushing too hard and not pushing hard enough.
原译文：尽管这些山脉之间的山脊很窄，
一审稿：尽管这些山脉之间的山脊很窄，但是不会窄到只剩一条线让你进退两难。
终审稿：尽管这些山脉之间的山脊很窄，但并非压力过大和压力不足之间的一线之差。