每日背誦第三期23
The Antarctic continent has mountain ranges similar in size to the European Alps. But whereas the Alps' snowcaps are just deep enough for skiing, Antarctic mountains are swallowed up by their caps, and lie buried beneath an ice sheet that is five kilometers thick.
南極大陸的山脈覆蓋的面積與歐洲的阿爾卑斯山差不多。不過阿爾卑斯山頂積雪的深度僅夠滑雪，南極大陸的山脈卻被積雪吞噬，深埋在厚達(dá)五公里的冰層下。
(短文節(jié)選,本篇始于：南極大陸)
