He wanted to know what lay beyond the Rocky Mountains.(他想知道在落基山脈那邊有什么。)

ain clowds move over a burning wildfire in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on September 8, 2010 near Boulder, Colorado(2010年9月8號(hào)，科羅拉多州博得附近，雨云群飛過(guò)野火肆虐的基山脈的山麓小丘上空。)

The unembellished dry-stack stone walls and rough-hewn wood plank ceilings highlight the organic textures of the Rocky Mountains.(該未裝飾的石墻和粗鑿磨木材木板天花板突出了有機(jī)材質(zhì)的洛基山脈。)

Maria: Yes. I've kayaked on the Colorado River, and I've camped in the Rocky Mountains many times.(瑪麗亞：是的，我曾去科羅拉多河上漂流過(guò)，我還在落基山脈上野營(yíng)過(guò)許多次。)

To our north towered the Crazies, an extension of the Rocky Mountains.(在我們北邊聳立的群山是落基山脈的一部分。)

Explorers visited the camp. They told Brigham Young about a great salt lake in a wide valley on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.(有一些探險(xiǎn)者拜訪他們的營(yíng)地，他們對(duì)百翰。楊說(shuō)，在洛基山脈西側(cè)有一個(gè)很大的山谷，在那山谷中有一個(gè)很大的鹽湖。)

Glacier National Park contains some of the most beautiful, primitive wilderness in the Rocky Mountains.(在落基山脈的國(guó)家冰川公園中仍可見(jiàn)到一些最美麗，最原始的荒野景色。)

The Rocky Mountains are littered with ghost towns that were once thronged with men mining silver, lead or uranium.(落基山脈一度涌入大批的采礦者，進(jìn)行銀礦，鉛礦以及鈾礦的開(kāi)采活動(dòng)，而現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)是遍布垃圾，淪為城市的廢墟。)

The prairieslie in the eastern rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Almost all theirrivers flow eastward from the Rockies.(大草原坐落在落基山脈的東部雨影區(qū)，其上河流幾乎全部發(fā)源自落基。)

If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.(如果今天發(fā)生這樣的地震，從落基山脈到大西洋都會(huì)有震感，而且會(huì)把密西西比河谷的大部分城市夷為平地。)