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Living Earth Moving like a tangle of writhing snakes, lava pours from Kilauea volcano and crawls over the rim of the Pu'u 'O'o crater.
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살아있는 지구 뒤엉킨 굼틀거리는 뱀들처럼 용암이 키라우에 화산에서 쏟아져서 푸우 분화구의 가장자리위로 서서히 기어 나오고 있다. |
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"Any one of nature's most celebrated wonders" will at first disappoint the visitor, wrote Mark Twain during a trip to Kilauea volcano in 1866, "but on better acquaintance will swell and stretch out and spread abroad, until it finally . . . becomes too stupendous for his comprehension."
어휘연구
celebrated 유명한, 저명한,
The place is celebrated for its hot resort. (그곳은 온천으로 유명하다)
acquaintance 아는 사람, 알고 있음, 면식, 지식
He is not a friend, only an acquaintance. (그는 친구가 아니라 단지 아는 사람이다)
stupendous 엄청난, 거대한
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Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is like that. The shield-shaped mounds that are active volcanoes are, initially, a little hard to take in - they don't scream out "fire-breathing dragons." And the craters of past eruptions that pock the land are too severe to be beautiful, too vast for even a nature lover's open arms. At first.
어휘연구
shield-shaped 방패 모양의
mound 흙무더기, 토루, 제방, 흙을 쌓아 올린 것, 투수의 마운드, 작은 언덕,
eruption 분출, 폭발
pock 두창, 천연두, 곰보로 만들다
crater 분화구
vast 거대한
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Then everything changes. Tiptoe over licorice twists of cooling lava, bathe in a spire of earthly steam, and bow closer to the fern that miraculously grabs a foothold in fresh stone. Listen to Hawaiians' tales of their volcano goddess, Pele, and begin to notice her everywhere: in debris fields of rocks blown from once fiery pits, in frozen seas of lava, in graveyards of petrified trees, in the acrid scent of sulfur dioxide that blows from Kilauea's east rift zone. Then visit her sweltering den, Pu'u 'O'o crater, where Kilauea's current eruption began explosively in 1983 and has since oozed enough lava to pave five roads to the moon. Realize, finally, that Hawai'i Volcanoes is forever a work in progress: the most volatile and dynamic park on Earth.
어휘연구
Tiptoe 발끝으로 걷다, 살금살금 걷다,
licorice (식물) 감초, 말린 감초 뿌리
twist 꼰 실, 밧줄, 뒤엉킴
spire 소용돌이, 나선형의
bow 허리를 굽히다, 굴종하다, 머리를 숙이다
fern 양치류, 고사리
miraculously 기적적으로, 놀랄만하게
grab 움켜잡다, 부여잡다, 잡아채다
foothold 발판, 발 디딤, 근거지,
tale 설화, 이야기
debris 부스러기, 파편, 잔해
pit 구멍, 구덩이(cavity) 함정(pitfall), 뜻밖의 위험
graveyard 묘지, 활기 없는 장소
den 굴, 은신처
petrified 돌처럼 굳어진, petrify 돌처럼 굳게 하다, 경직시키다
acrid 신랄한, 가혹한, 혹독한
rift 갈라진 데, 금, 균열, 불화
ooze 스며나오다, 새어나오다, 분비물이 나오다
volatile 끊임없이 변하는, 휘발성의, 변덕스러운
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Congress first moved to protect the area's volcanic summits in 1916, when Hawai'i was still just a U.S. territory. Now the national park covers more than 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers) on the Big Island, including Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes with their cinder fields, scrubby deserts, forests of ramrod koa and red-blooming 'ohi'a trees, plus swaths of rain forest so tangled that few but botanists and entomologists clamber through.
어휘연구
summit 정상, 최고봉
territory 영토, 영역
cinder 재(ashes), 용광로에서 나온, 찌꺼기, 쇠찌기
scrubby 잡목이 무성한
ramrod 곧은, 직립의
red-blooming 빨갛게 꽃이 피는
swath 넓은 길, 베어 나간 자리, 한 번 낫질한 넓이
tangled 얽힌, 뒤엉킨
entomologist 곤충학자
clamber 기어오르다, 매달려 오르다
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One of Pele's residences lies at Halema'uma'u Crater, which was for 150 years Kilauea's most active vent. Hawaiians and visitors from around the world come to the now silent crater's edge to worship and to leave gifts of all sorts for the goddess. "You'll see everything from fake money to raw pig heads out here," says park ranger Faelyn Jardine, who each week lugs out a trash bag of what the park service considers "inappropriate" leavings. "The preferred offerings," she says, hoisting a Hefty bulging with random groceries and a pair of baked chickens, "are chants and prayers.
어휘연구
residence 거주지, 주거지
vent 분출구, 배출구
worship 숭배하다
ranger 산림 경비대, 무장 순찰 대원
lug out 끌어내다, 치우다, 억지로 끌고 가다
bulging 부풀어 오른, 불룩한
Hefty 무거운, 많은
chant 노래, 성가, 영창
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