雅思的长句

今日分享 Oppland's mountains present daunting terrain and in periods of extreme cold, glaciers could block the higher mountain passes and make travel in the upper reaches of the mountains extremely difficult. ——剑雅16

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主句:Oppland's mountains present daunting terrain.

并列句:and in periods of extreme cold, glaciers could block the higher mountain passes and make travel in the upper reaches of the mountains extremely difficult.

词汇补充

daunting /ˈdɔːntɪŋ/ adj. seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; 令人胆怯的。

terrain /təˈreɪn/ n. a stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features. 地形;地势;地带。

extreme /ɪkˈstriːm/ adj. reaching a high or the highest degree; very great. 极度的;极端的;尽头的。

Over a nine-year period, a team of archaeologists, which included Lars Pil0 of Opp land County Council, Norway, and James Barrett of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, surveyed patches of ice in Opp land, an area of south-central Norway that is home to some of the country's highest mountains. ——剑雅16

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