探索频道英语听力 遗失的大陆-22

Based in Tobay, England, Jim Allen is a former aerial photography analyst for the British Royal Air Force. And it is by analyzing aerial photography that Jim Allen believes he has discovered one of the lost continent’s most distinctive landmarks-the vast irrigated flood plain of Atlantis.

Many people talk about Atlantis, a lost continent city, whatever you want to call it. But nobody bothers to talk about the rectangular plain and the large part of Plato’s story is, is a very geographic description of this actual area.

Jim Allen believes the continent of Atlantis was actually South America. High upon the rugged flood plain in Bolivia called the Alti Plano, Jim thinks he has found the plain which Plato described.

There was a plain said to have been the fairest of all plains and very fertile. It was smooth and even, and of oblong shape, and canals of a hundred feet were cut through it.

Could the Alti Plano of Bolivia really have been the plain of Atlantis? Despite several expeditions, Jim has found concrete proof elusive. And academic experts refuse to even examine his ideas.

Though some time ago I wrote to the leading archeologist in Cambridge who is head of a Cambridge College. And he returned all my material unexamined and he wrote 'Atlantis is a subject in which I have never been interested.' And I think that reflects the archeological opinion around the world.


Undeterred, Jim hopes that advances in technology will eventually force skeptical experts to sit up and take notice of what he believes is a watertight theory.

Modern technology, satellite mapping which is only available in last 20 or 30 years shows we can prove quite positively this is the irrigated rectangular plain that Plato talked about.

Jim Allen is not alone in hoping that modern technology will reveal the location of the lost continent.

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oblong shape: n. 长方形
elusive: adj. 逃避的不易被抓获、觉察、理解或记忆的
undeterred: adj. 未被吓住的
watertight: adj. 无懈可击的