每日背誦第三期25
For centuries, Europeans wondered about the existence of a South-Polar continent, but no one actually knew for certain Antarctica was there until 1820 when European explorers "discovered" it. Since then, men have gone to Antarctica in search of adventure. Testing their abilities, several teams of explorers set out in 1911 to be the first men to stand at the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his men reached the pole; so did Robert F. Scott, an Englishman, but he and his team died on the return trip.
幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來，歐洲人一直在猜測是否存在南極洲，直到1820年歐洲的探險(xiǎn)家"發(fā)現(xiàn)"了它，人們才真正確定南極洲的存在。從那以后，人們開始去南極洲探險(xiǎn)。1911年，幾支探險(xiǎn)隊(duì)為了驗(yàn)證自己的能力出發(fā)去南極洲，希望能成為站在南極極點(diǎn)的先鋒。挪威人羅德·阿蒙森和隊(duì)友抵達(dá)了極點(diǎn)。英國人羅伯特·F·斯科特也做到了，不過他和他的隊(duì)友卻在回程中不幸喪生。
(短文節(jié)選,本篇始于：南極大陸)
