13-Year-Old American Boy Climbing Mount Everest
13岁美国男孩攀登圣母峰
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1. guts : n. 胆子
2. summit : n. 山的尖峰，峰顶
3. Mount Everest : n. 圣母峰 (埃佛勒斯峰)
4. climber : n. 登山者
5. hallway : n. 玄关；走廊
13-year-old American Jordan Romero from California has a lot of guts. He’s now on his way to the summit of Mount Everest, beginning his 29-thousand foot trip on Sunday.
13岁美国人乔丹罗梅尔来自加州，有很大的勇气。他现在正往峰顶前进，在星期日开始他的2万9千英尺行走旅程。
Currently a 16-year-old Nepali boy holds the record of being the world’s youngest climber of Mount Everest.
目前一位尼泊尔16岁男孩，保持圣母峰最年轻攀登者的记录。
But Romero is not after setting climbing records. He says it’s part of his goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.
但是罗梅尔并不是要跟随在后创记录，他说这只是他要攀越七大洲所有最高峰的其中一项目标。
[Jordan Romeno, 13-years-old]:
“I was 9-years-old in a fourth grade in my school and I was walking down the hallway and I saw a painting on the wall of the Seven Summits and that’s what made me want to climb them, I looked at it all the time and my father picked me up from the school one day and I said I want to climb these seven summits, and that’s it. That’s how I started.”
[乔丹罗梅尔，13岁]
“当我九岁国小四年级的时候，我走下门廊看到了墙上七大高峰的图画，这就是让我想要爬山的原因。我总是注视着它，直到有一天我父亲友来学校接我的时候，我告诉他我要爬这七座山。这就是我如何开始的。
Romero has already climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mount McKinley in Alaska, among others.
这几座高峰中，罗梅尔已经攀登过非洲的吉利马札罗山，还有阿拉斯加的麦坎力山。
More than 4,000 climbers have reached the top of Mount Everest since it was first scaled in 1953.
就1953年有攀登纪录以来，超过4000个登山者登上圣母峰顶。
In 1998, a Nepalese mountaineer broke the record for scaling Mount Everest in the shortest time, in 20 hours and 24 minutes.
在1998年，一个尼泊尔登山家破记录在最短时间攀登圣母峰，用了20小时24分钟。
So what’s next for the young adventurer? He says he wants to climb the highest mountains in all 50 states in the U.S.
所以这位年轻冒险家下一个目标是什么呢？ 他说他要攀登美国境内五十州所有最高的山。
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