The Himalayas, also known as “the Hometown ofSnow”，lie to the south of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateauand and start from the Pamirs in the west to thegreat turning point of the Yarlung Zangbo River inthe east. From east to west, the mountains are over2,450 kilometers long and from south to north, they are 200-350 kilometers wide, with anaverage altitude of over 6,000 meters. The Himalayas consist of more than 110 mountainswhich are over 7,000 meters high. Among them, Mount Qomolangma is the highest mountain inthe world, with an altitude of 8,848 meters, located on the border of China and Nepal.TheHimalayan range is the youngest mountain range in the world because it has only been inexistence for several hundred thousand years, and it is still growing!

　　1.雪的故乡:可译为the Hometown of Snow。

　　2.位于:即lie to，还可以用lie in或be located in表达。

　　3.招弯处:可译为turning point。

　　4.平均海拔:可译为average altitude。altitude即“海拔”。

　　5.位于...的边界处:可使用词组be located on the borderof...来表达。

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