the Rocky Mountains

He wanted to know what lay beyond the Rocky Mountains.(他想知道在落基山脉那边有什么。)

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号，科罗拉多州博得附近，雨云群飞过野火肆虐的基山脉的山麓小丘上空。)

The unembellished dry-stack stone walls and rough-hewn wood plank ceilings highlight the organic textures of the Rocky Mountains.(该未装饰的石墙和粗凿磨木材木板天花板突出了有机材质的洛基山脉。)

Maria: Yes. I've kayaked on the Colorado River, and I've camped in the Rocky Mountains many times.(玛丽亚：是的，我曾去科罗拉多河上漂流过，我还在落基山脉上野营过许多次。)

To our north towered the Crazies, an extension of the Rocky Mountains.(在我们北边耸立的群山是落基山脉的一部分。)

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.(有一些探险者拜访他们的营地，他们对百翰。杨说，在洛基山脉西侧有一个很大的山谷，在那山谷中有一个很大的盐湖。)

Glacier National Park contains some of the most beautiful, primitive wilderness in the Rocky Mountains.(在落基山脉的国家冰川公园中仍可见到一些最美丽，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.(落基山脉一度涌入大批的采矿者，进行银矿，铅矿以及铀矿的开采活动，而现在已经是遍布垃圾，沦为城市的废墟。)

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脉的东部雨影区，其上河流几乎全部发源自落基。)

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.(如果今天发生这样的地震，从落基山脉到大西洋都会有震感，而且会把密西西比河谷的大部分城市夷为平地。)