美国的死海_英语万花筒

　america's dead sea

　picture a still, shallow lake at the bottom of a huge basin.long after experts insist it should have dried up, the great salt lake of utah——america's so-called dead sea——still exists.

　the supposedly dead lake has no fish, but millions of tiny shrimp and several forms of algae——primitive plant life-thrive there, in waters saltier than the ocean.gulls roost on is-lands in the lake and shore birds nest in the marshes around it.

　ancient beaches high on the sides of the surrounding mountains show that the lake once covered more than twenty times its present area.other evidence shows that the lake has completely dried up several times in its history.

　the lake's level has not dropped much in the last hundred years, despite increased use of water from its sources for irrigation.current plans for diverting the large green river into the basin around the lake may even increase the lake's present size.

　美国的死海

　描绘一下位于一个巨大盆地底部的既静又浅的湖泊吧。在专家们坚持认为它已干枯多年后，犹他州的大盐湖——号称美国的死海——却依然存在。

　被人们设想为死湖的里面没有鱼，但是，数以百万计的小虾和几种形态的海藻——原始植物体，却在这比海水还要咸的湖水中繁衍。海鸥在湖中的岛上栖息，海岸鸟在周围的沼泽地筑巢。

　高高立于周围山坡之上的古老湖滩表明：这个湖过去曾有它现今湖面的20多倍大。别的证据也显示，这个湖在上曾几度完全干枯。

　虽然湖水被越来越多地用于灌溉，但在最近100年中，湖的水位并没有下降多少。将大格林河的水引入湖泊周围盆地的新规划，甚至还会扩大这一湖泊的现有面积。