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作者追随海明威的足迹，来到坦桑尼亚北部的非洲大草原“狩猎”。近百年前，这位诺贝尔文学奖获得者就在Ngorongoro Crater附近的Manyara湖边轧帐。三个月的“狩猎”促成了海明威两部重要作品《非洲的青山》和《乞力马扎罗的雪》，海明威形容非洲生活是他生命里最快乐的时光。虽然现在的游客只能看不能猎杀动物，但他们可以乘坐直升机鸟瞰大草原，而且狩猎也可以非常舒适地坐着有冰镇饮料的吉普车，还有星级酒店居住。
作者很幸运看到了Big Five：水牛、大象、狮子、猎豹、犀牛。十分难得的经历，是在Grumeti河边轧帐，晚上有80多河马为邻，这其实是非常危险的动物。但非洲狩猎的魅力就在于你永远不知道下一秒在草丛里会遇到什么。就像海明威所描绘的，身处Serengeti大草原，被非洲的树木、动物、鸟类围绕，让人就只想慢慢度过这美好时光。
第一步：解决高频单词
edge [ɛdʒ]
vi. 缓慢移动／n. 边缘／优势
homage ['hɑmɪdʒ]
n. 敬意／效忠
acclaim [ə'klem]
vt. vi. n. 称赞／欢呼
crash [kræʃ]
n. vi. vt. 撞碎／坠毁
cautious ['kɔʃəs]
adj. 谨慎小心的
snap [snæp]
n. 快照
cradle ['kredl]
n. 摇篮／vt. 抚育
herd [hɝd]
n. 兽群／vi. vt. 成群
retrace [rɪ'tres]
vt. 追溯／折回
captivate ['kæptɪvet]
vt. 迷惑
第二步：精读重点段落
（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）
第01段
The leopard saw us coming. As we edged toward the Yellow Fever tree where he had draped himself across the branches, keeping a close eye on the antelope feeding nearby, he started to twitch. After eyeing our open-topped jeep, he made a nervous split-second decision to pounce, scattering the prey below, and vanished into the thick camouflage-scrub of the riverbank.
- Edge toward 朝……缓缓移动
- Keep a close eye on 密切观察
- Make a nervous split-second decision to do sth. 因为紧张而快速决定做某事
- Vanish into 消失于
第04段
Gone are the days of Hemingway, big-game hunting and the minimum comfort safari. Yet for all the Cessna prop planes that circle the plains (Hemingway crash-landed in heavy brush near Uganda’s Murchison Falls on his second trip to the continent in 1954), the pleasures remain the same: sky safaris promise game watching, unpredictable bush encounters and sun-downers on rocky crags. The heavy-drinking Hemingway would have especially loved that part – the only twist being that, on the increasingly luxurious safaris, a whisky soda now comes served with a cold-pressed, lavender-scented towel.
- Gone are the days of ……的日子一去不复返了
- Remain the same 保持不变
- The only twist being that 唯一的苦恼在于
第09段
For the first time in the bush, I felt vulnerable, a primal thrill that would have given any big game hunter – even Hemingway – the shivers. Moments later, we stumbled upon a herd of feasting elephants; the hunters were becoming the hunted. We slowly retraced our steps, leaving only our footprints behind.
- For the first time 第一次
- Moments later 不久后
- Stumble upon 偶然发现
- A herd of 一群（动物等）
- Retrace one’s steps 原路返回
第三步：攻克必学语法
倒装句的用法
第04段
Gone are the days of Hemingway, big-game hunting and the minimum comfort safari.
海明威时代那种真正可以打猎但又非常不舒适的大型非洲狩猎，已经一去不复返了。
完全倒装：主语和谓语完全颠倒
部分倒装：只将助动词移到主语之前
1. Only + 状语或状语从句在句首，部分倒装
Only in this way can you solve the problem.
2. 否定词在句首，部分倒装：not, little, hardly, scarcely, no more, no longer, in no way, never, seldom, not only, no sooner
No sooner had I got home than it began to rain.
Seldom do I stand up late after graduation.
3. So/such … that在句首，部分倒装，强调so/such … that之间的部分
So unreasonable was his price that nobody took the offer.
4. 副词here, there开头，全部倒装
Here is the present you expected.
5. 主语或其所带的修饰语太长，把状语、表语放在句首，完全倒装
（介词短语开头的状语）On the ground lay some air conditioners, which are to be shipped to other cities.
（表语）Such would be our home in the future.
6. 为了令语言更生动，将表示方向的副词（down, up, out, in, off, on, away, etc.）、拟声词（bang, crack, etc.）放在句首，全部倒装
Up went the rocket into the air.
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On the Hunt with Hemingway
[1] The leopard saw us coming. As we edged toward the Yellow Fever tree where he had draped himself across the branches, keeping a close eye on the antelope feeding nearby, he started to twitch. After eyeing our open-topped jeep, he made a nervous split-second decision to pounce, scattering the prey below, and vanished into the thick camouflage-scrub of the riverbank.
- Edge toward 朝……方向慢慢移动
- Yellow fever 黄热病
- Antelope n. 羚羊
- Twitch n. vi. vt. 抽搐
- Scatter vi. vt. n. 分散
- Prey vi. 捕食／n. 猎物
- Camouflage n. vt. vi. 伪装
- Scrub n. vt. vi. 擦洗
[2] I had come to northern Tanzania in homage to one of America’s greatest travel writers, Ernest Hemingway. Back in 1933 and 1934 – nearly 100 years ago – the Nobel Prize winner and his wife Pauline set up camp amid fig trees and giant mahogany forests on the banks of Lake Manyara, 30km south of the Ngorongoro Crater, and tracked kudu, a local antelope, in present-day Tarangire National Park.
- Homage n. 致敬
- Mahogany n. 桃花心木
- Kudu n. 条纹羚
[3] His experiences on this three-month safari were turned into two of his most acclaimed works: The Green Hills of Africa, a nonfiction book published in 1935, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro, a short story that came out in Esquire in 1936. As he later wrote in True at First Light, a fictionalized account of his experiences: “I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.”
- Acclaim vt. vi. n. 称赞／欢呼
[4] Gone are the days of Hemingway, big-game hunting and the minimum comfort safari. Yet for all the Cessna prop planes that circle the plains (Hemingway crash-landed in heavy brush near Uganda’s Murchison Falls on his second trip to the continent in 1954), the pleasures remain the same: sky safaris promise game watching, unpredictable bush encounters and sun-downers on rocky crags. The heavy-drinking Hemingway would have especially loved that part – the only twist being that, on the increasingly luxurious safaris, a whisky soda now comes served with a cold-pressed, lavender-scented towel.
- Crash n. vi. vt. 撞碎／坠落
- Sun-downer n. 流浪汉／夕阳酒
- Crag n. 峭壁
- Lavender n. 薰衣草
- Scent n. 气味／vt. vi. 闻到
[5] Few follow in Hemingway’s Tanzanian footsteps as well as local-run safari operator Elewana. Their retro-fitted private planes loop from the city of Arusha to the smudged bush airstrips found in the northern circuit of great game-watching national parks. The fleet connects the spectacular flamingo-fringed soda lakes of Manyara, where Hemingway hunted, to the Great Rift Valley escarpments and the remote northern Serengeti, into which few venture. Like most plane safaris, it soars back into civilization at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, from where Hemingway was air-lifted to Nairobi after contracting dysentery in January 1934.
- Retro-fitted vt. n. 翻新
- Loop vi. vt. n. 翻筋斗
- Smudge vt. vi. 弄脏／n. 污迹
- Fleet n. 港湾
- Flamingo n. 火烈鸟
- Fringe n. 边缘
- Escarpment n. 悬崖
[6] On the morning of our leopard encounter, our jeep had left the remote Serengeti Migration Camp around sunrise. The white sun was still cool and the animals were cautiously on the move: wildebeest were calving and zebras grazed, their brush-like tails swishing at clouds of pestering tsetse flies. It felt like one of Hemingway’s accounts of East Africa – I could almost see the wildebeest stampeding off his pages and into the baked-earth of the grasslands. In the next few hours, we saw African buffalo, elephant, warthog, giraffe, lion and hyena, snapping countless close-up photos. Unlike the adventurers of Hemingway’s time, these were the only trophies we needed to take home with us. None of this game would end up mounted on our walls.
- Cautiously adv. 小心地
- Wildebeest n. 牛羚
- Calve vt. vi. 生小牛
- Zebra n. 斑马
- Graze vi. 吃草
- Swish vt. 鞭打／使沙沙作响
- Pester vt. 纠缠
- Tsetse n. 舌蝇
- Stamped adj. 铭刻的／顿足的
- Warthog n. 疣猪
- Giraffe n. 长颈鹿
- Hyena n. 鬣狗
- Snap vt. vi. n. 猛咬
- Trophy n. 战利品
[7] Back at the tented camp, the chorus of Serengeti wildlife ensured it would be a sleepless night. A pod of around 80 hippos grunted and barked as they wallowed in the Grumeti River, which curved past the tented platforms.
- Chorus n. 合唱
- Hippo n. 河马
- Grunt n. vi. 呼噜
- Bark vt. 狗叫
- Wallow vi. n. 打滚
- Curve vt. vi. 弯曲
[8] “You never know how animals in the bush will react, especially this one,” said our guide caili, cradling a loaded buckshot rifle on a bush walk to the water the following morning. For our protection, a second armed government ranger stood alongside. “The hippo’s a killer, especially if you get between it and the water. In Swahili we say maisha marefu – better to lead a long life.”
- Cradle n. 摇篮／vt. 抚育
- Buckshot n. 大号铅弹
- Rifle n. 来复枪
- Ranger n. 护林员
[9] For the first time in the bush, I felt vulnerable, a primal thrill that would have given any big game hunter – even Hemingway – the shivers. Moments later, we stumbled upon a herd of feasting elephants; the hunters were becoming the hunted. We slowly retraced our steps, leaving only our footprints behind.
- Primal adj. 原始的
- Shiver n. 颤抖
- Herd n. 兽群
- Feast vt. 宴请／n. 宴会
- Retrace vt. 追溯
[10] Vast brilliant blue skies, endless savannah grasses and bountiful wildlife: the Serengeti remains the Africa that inspired and captivated Hemingway. Just as Hemmingway wrote in The Green Hills of Africa, I also wanted to “know the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly”. This was what it felt like to share emotions with a legend.
- savannah n. 热带草原
- bountiful adj. 丰富的／慷慨的
- captivate vt. 迷惑
edge [ɛdʒ]
vi. 缓慢移动／n. 边缘／优势
homage ['hɑmɪdʒ]
n. 敬意／效忠
acclaim [ə'klem]
vt. vi. n. 称赞／欢呼
crash [kræʃ]
n. vi. vt. 撞碎／坠毁
cautious ['kɔʃəs]
adj. 谨慎小心的
snap [snæp]
n. 快照
cradle ['kredl]
n. 摇篮／vt. 抚育
herd [hɝd]
n. 兽群／vi. vt. 成群
retrace [rɪ'tres]
vt. 追溯／折回
captivate ['kæptɪvet]
vt. 迷惑
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On the hunt with Hemingway
[1] The leopard saw us coming. As we edged toward the Yellow Fever tree where he had draped himself across the branches, keeping a close eye on the antelope feeding nearby, he started to twitch. After eyeing our open-topped jeep, he made a nervous split-second decision to pounce, scattering the prey below, and vanished into the thick camouflage-scrub of the riverbank.
[2] I had come to northern Tanzania in homage to one of America’s greatest travel writers, Ernest Hemingway. Back in 1933 and 1934 – nearly 100 years ago – the Nobel Prize winner and his wife Pauline set up camp amid fig trees and giant mahogany forests on the banks of Lake Manyara, 30km south of the Ngorongoro Crater, and tracked kudu, a local antelope, in present-day Tarangire National Park.
[3] His experiences on this three-month safari were turned into two of his most acclaimed works: The Green Hills of Africa, a nonfiction book published in 1935, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro, a short story that came out in Esquire in 1936. As he later wrote in True at First Light, a fictionalized account of his experiences: “I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.”
[4] Gone are the days of Hemingway, big-game hunting and the minimum comfort safari. Yet for all the Cessna prop planes that circle the plains (Hemingway crash-landed in heavy brush near Uganda’s Murchison Falls on his second trip to the continent in 1954), the pleasures remain the same: sky safaris promise game watching, unpredictable bush encounters and sun-downers on rocky crags. The heavy-drinking Hemingway would have especially loved that part – the only twist being that, on the increasingly luxurious safaris, a whisky soda now comes served with a cold-pressed, lavender-scented towel.
[5] Few follow in Hemingway’s Tanzanian footsteps as well as local-run safari operator Elewana. Their retro-fitted private planes loop from the city of Arusha to the smudged bush airstrips found in the northern circuit of great game-watching national parks. The fleet connects the spectacular flamingo-fringed soda lakes of Manyara, where Hemingway hunted, to the Great Rift Valley escarpments and the remote northern Serengeti, into which few venture. Like most plane safaris, it soars back into civilization at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, from where Hemingway was air-lifted to Nairobi after contracting dysentery in January 1934.
[6] On the morning of our leopard encounter, our jeep had left the remote Serengeti Migration Camp around sunrise. The white sun was still cool and the animals were cautiously on the move: wildebeest were calving and zebras grazed, their brush-like tails swishing at clouds of pestering tsetse flies. It felt like one of Hemingway’s accounts of East Africa – I could almost see the wildebeest stampeding off his pages and into the baked-earth of the grasslands. In the next few hours, we saw African buffalo, elephant, warthog, giraffe, lion and hyena, snapping countless close-up photos. Unlike the adventurers of Hemingway’s time, these were the only trophies we needed to take home with us. None of this game would end up mounted on our walls.
[7] Back at the tented camp, the chorus of Serengeti wildlife ensured it would be a sleepless night. A pod of around 80 hippos grunted and barked as they wallowed in the Grumeti River, which curved past the tented platforms.
[8] “You never know how animals in the bush will react, especially this one,” said our guide caili, cradling a loaded buckshot rifle on a bush walk to the water the following morning. For our protection, a second armed government ranger stood alongside. “The hippo’s a killer, especially if you get between it and the water. In Swahili we say maisha marefu – better to lead a long life.”
[9] For the first time in the bush, I felt vulnerable, a primal thrill that would have given any big game hunter – even Hemingway – the shivers. Moments later, we stumbled upon a herd of feasting elephants; the hunters were becoming the hunted. We slowly retraced our steps, leaving only our footprints behind.
[10] Vast brilliant blue skies, endless savannah grasses and bountiful wildlife: the Serengeti remains the Africa that inspired and captivated Hemingway. Just as Hemmingway wrote in The Green Hills of Africa, I also wanted to “know the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly”.
[11] This was what it felt like to share emotions with a legend.
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