A Trip on the Trails

A Trip on the Trails

小道之旅

Josh and Anne are gearing up for another adventure in the great outdoors. For this trip, they will spend two weeks backpacking through New Zealand, which sounds like fun, don’t you think? However, this adventure will require getting some special gear before they head out. Anne and Josh decide to visit a store that sells a lot of backpacking supplies. Anne knows that the most important piece of equipment for when she’s about to do a lot of hiking, is strong boots.

乔希和安妮正准备在户外进行另一次冒险。 这次旅行，他们将花两周时间在新西兰背包旅行，听起来很有趣，你不觉得吗？ 然而，这种冒险需要在他们出发前准备一些特殊的装备。 安妮和乔希决定去逛一家卖很多背包用品的商店。 安妮知道，当她要进行大量徒步旅行时，最重要的一件装备就是结实的靴子。

She tries out a number of boots, walking up and down plastic mountains in the store to test how well they hold the ground. It looks like she has found some boots that are very light, waterproof, strong, and her favorite color─yellow! Josh, meanwhile, knows that the next most important purchase is poles. Scientists have recently discovered that walking downhill with a lot of weight is difficult for the knees to handle. In fact, a lot of people injure their knees by slipping downhill, but poles help the knees by providing extra support and balance.

她试穿了几双靴子，在商店里的塑料山上来回走动，以测试它们的抓地力。 看起来她已经找到了一些非常轻便、防水、结实和她最喜欢的颜色─黄色的靴子！ 与此同时，乔希知道，下一个最重要的采购是棍杖。 科学家最近发现，负重下山对膝盖来说很难承受的。 事实上，很多人在下坡时滑倒会伤到膝盖，但棍杖通过提供额外的支撑和平衡来帮助膝盖。

So Josh chooses some poles that are lightweight but strong enough to support his weight and grip the ground. The last big purchase is a backpack. Backpacks come in all colors, sizes, and weights. Bags that hold over seven kilograms have a padded strap that goes around the waist to help lift the weight off the shoulders.

因此，乔希选择了一些重量轻但足够结实的棍杖，以支撑他的重量和抓地力。 最后一笔大额购买是一个背包。背包有各种颜色、大小和重量。 重量超过7公斤的袋子在腰部有一条软垫带，有助于减轻肩部的重量。

Josh picks a brown pack that will help him hide in the trees, and Anne picks a pack with her favorite color─yellow! There are a lot more pieces of equipment that Josh and Anne will need to go on their trip, such as headlamps, sleeping bags, a cookstove, food, hiking clothes, a first aid kit, and bug repellant. However, all of this can get expensive, so they borrow a lot of these things from their friends. “ In order to stay safe when you go backpacking, it’s important to have good gear, ” Josh says.

乔希挑选了一个棕色的背包，将帮助他隐藏在树上，安妮挑选了一个她最喜欢的颜色的包─黄色的！ 乔希和安妮在旅行中需要更多的装备，比如头灯、睡袋、炉灶、食物、登山服、急救箱和驱虫剂。 然而，所有这些算起来会很贵，所以他们从朋友那里借了很多这些东西。 “为了在背包旅行时保持安全，有好的装备很重要，”乔希说。

Their bags are packed, and they are on their way to New Zealand! New Zealand is a beautiful country with many kinds of landscapes. There are beaches, forests, jungles, plains, mountains, and volcanoes, just to name a few. The country is about the same size as Korea, just a tiny bit bigger. But there are seventy million people living in Korea and only four million living in New Zealand.

他们的行李已打包，正在前往新西兰的路上！ 新西兰是一个美丽的国家，有各种各样的风景。 那里有海滩、森林、丛林、平原、山脉和火山，仅举几个例子。 这个国家和韩国差不多大，只是稍微大一点。 但韩国有7000万人，新西兰只有400万人。