2009年10月16日 星期五

Lake District


Bassenthwaite Lake, one of the larger lakes at four miles long.

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Lake District is one of a natural land in England which owns extremely splendid scenery. What's worth to mention are the breathtaking crag and mountain there, because they are as any you’ll find in Switzerland or the French Alps. In 19th, it was a pleasant place for many famous poets like Wordsworth to sought their poetic inspirations. The nature riches makes people fall in love with Lake District. Moreover, there is an abundance of history and culture, including the abandoned slate mines and Rydal Mount.



The Herdwick sheep, a breed of small hardy sheep with course dark wool which is indiginous to the Lake District, history has it that the Herdwick breed of sheep came from shipwrecked galleons from the Spanish.


Loughrigg Tarn and Langdale Pikes in autumn.


Vocabulary
˙ outlandishly-strange or extremely unusual
˙ sweeping-forming a curved shape
˙ savour-have flavor; taste of something

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