Austria's fastest melting glacier gives up decades-old corpse

An Alpine guide has discovered

on Austria's fastest melting

glacier

(

what are believed to be the

remains

of an Austrian

(

who died more than 20 years ago

)

)

, according to a statement from local police.

The discovery follows the finding of other human remains

on the same glacier less than two months ago.

Climate change has accelerated the melting

of glaciers, with the retreating ice releasing bodies of

alpinists

(

it has held for years, sometimes even decades

)

.

重點詞匯釋義：

glacier 冰川

remain 殘余；遺骸；遺體；遺跡；遺址；

alpinist n. 登山者（尤指阿爾卑斯山的）

譯文：

奧地利融化速度最快的冰川，驚現(xiàn)幾十年前的尸體

根據(jù)當?shù)鼐降囊环萋暶?，一名阿爾卑斯山向導在奧地利融化最快的冰川上發(fā)現(xiàn)了一具遺體，據(jù)信是一名20多年前死亡的奧地利人的遺體。就在不到兩個月前，在同一冰川上發(fā)現(xiàn)了其他人類遺骸。氣候變化加速了冰川的融化，不斷退縮的冰川會使冰川中封存了數(shù)年、甚至數(shù)十年的登山者遺體得到解封。來自衛(wèi)報（The Guardian）