地球的起源第1季第1集中英台词整理和单词统计

地球的起源第1季第1集中英台词整理和单词统计

英文	中文
Earth, a 4.5-billion-year-old planet,	地球这个拥有45亿年历史的古老行星
still evolving.	仍在演变之中
As continents shift and clash,	随着大陆漂移与碰撞
volcanoes erupt,	火山爆发
and glaciers grow and recede,	冰川消长
the earth's crust is carved	地壳被大自然用许多
in numerous and fascinating ways,	魔幻的方式雕刻着
leaving a trail of geological mysteries behind.	留下了一系列的地质之谜
In this episode,	在本集中
an investigation into California's San Andreas Fault	我们将深入调查位于加州的圣安德鲁斯断层
the greatest fault line on earth,	这条世界上最大的断层线
800 miles long.	共有800英里长
This ugly scar on the landscape	这道丑陋的地表伤疤
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has spawned earthquake after earthquake.	引发了一次又一次的地震
But, for now,	但现在
it waits quietly, deep under our cities	它还在城市的地下深处静静等待着
building up stress to strike once again.	为下一次的爆发积蓄力量
The San Andreas Fault is one of the most dangerous	圣安德鲁斯断层是地球上
geological features on earth.	最危险的地质特征之一

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	地球起源
	圣安德烈亚斯断层
California's greatest cities and millions of her citizens	加州的几个大型城市和她上百万的居民
live in constant peril.	常年生活在危险之中
Since records began	自有记录以来
there have been 13 large earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault.	圣安德鲁斯断层一带发生过13次大地震
The water lines have ruptured.	自来水管道破裂
There is no water coming out of the fire hydrants.	消防栓无法供水
And now, America's geologists,	现在美国的地质学家们
her rock detectives	作为她的岩石侦探
are warning of a potential disaster.	向人们发出警告一场灾难可能即将来临
The major damage has been done.	地震对城市造成了巨大损失
In the fall of 2008,	2008年秋天
more than 300 scientists calculated	三百多名科学家估算了
what a major earthquake would do to southern California.	一场大地震会对加州南部造成怎样的影响
We've been conducting a special study	我们一直在进行一项很特别的研究:
of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault	圣安德鲁斯断层南部的7.8级地震
large enough to potentially damage tall buildings.	拥有足以毁坏高层建筑物的破坏能力
Fire will be very significant.	并造成非常严重的火灾
The definitive scientific report presented to politicians	这份呈递给官员的权威科学报告的
was codenamed Shakeout.	代号为"大震荡"
It forecast thousands of deaths and	报告预测了洛杉矶市届时会有
billions of dollars of damage in the city of Los Angeles,	几千人丧生以及数十亿美元的经济损失
which makes it crucial to investigate	这使得深入调查一个极为重要的问题
the most important question:	变得非常关键
when will the next big earthquake	即下次大地震会在何时再次
hit the San Andreas Fault?	袭击圣安德鲁斯断层呢
The latest preparations for disaster are	最近的一次灾难准备工作
the climax of an investigation that	是一次调查行动的高潮阶段
started more than 100 years ago,	启于一百多年前
in the aftermath of	也就是在1906年
the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906.	旧金山大地震的灾后调查工作
The earthquake struck on a Wednesday, just before dawn.	那场地震发生在一个星期三的黎明
The ground shook violently for 45 seconds igniting fires	45秒钟的山摇地动引发的大火
that raged unchecked for the next four days.	在接下来的四天里肆虐全城
28,000 buildings, a tenth of the entire city, were destroyed,	全城十分之一的房屋两万八千间倒塌
and more than 3,000 people, one in every hundred of the population, were killed.	超过三千人全市人口的百分之一遇难
With a magnitude of 7.8 it's in the top 20	7.8的震级使这场地震排进了
of North America's strongest ever earthquakes.	北美史上最强烈地震的前20名
The scale of the great San Francisco earthquake shocked the nation.	旧金山大地震的惨烈程度震惊全国

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But no one understood what had made the city shake.	但没人知道这场灾难究竟是如何产生的
Native American myths explained earthquakes as	在美洲原住民的神话中地震被解释为
shocks from a battle between warring spirits	神灵之间的争斗引发的地面晃动
Latter-day explorers couldn't understand the shocks	后来的探索者们无法理解这些
that destroyed their mission buildings.	连他们的传教所都毁掉的地震
One Spanish missionary wrote,	一位西班牙传教士这样写道
"The earth shook around me from explosions under the ground."	"我周围的地面震动来自于地下的爆炸"
300 years later,	三百年后
and science has still made little progress.	科学界在这一领域依然进展甚微
Refugees in the ruins of San Francisco	旧金山市的灾民们
still blamed earthquakes on mysterious underground explosions.	仍把地震归咎于某种神秘的地下爆炸
So, just three days after the earthquake,	地震发生三天后
the State of California asked one of the world's most famous geologists,	加州政府邀请了世界上最著名的地质学家之一
Andrew Lawson from California State University	加州州立大学的安德鲁·劳森
to investigate what had destroyed the city.	来调查灾难的起因
He and a team of 25 scientists	他带领着25人的科研团队
began collecting damage evidence in the city and surrounding countryside.	开始在城市及周边郊区收集受损证据
There were roads that had buckled,	道路损毁
rail tracks that had twisted.	铁轨扭曲
The most startling evidence of all?	那最惊人的证据是什么
That came near the town of Bolinas in Marin County	就在旧金山北边的
to the north of San Francisco.	马琳县博林纳斯镇附近
This picket fence had an eight-foot gap in the middle.	这条尖桩篱栅中间出现了八英尺宽的错位
Before the earthquake	地震前
it was a solid boundary fence, dividing two fields.	它还是条用来分隔两片土地的坚固边篱
But, when he recreated what had happened,	但等劳森将栅栏恢复原状时
Lawson realized that the land had jolted apart	他才意识到脚下的土地被地震移位了
and torn the fence in two.	栅栏被扯成两半
Plotting the evidence on a map around San Francisco	在旧金山一带的地图上标出这些证据
revealed a surprising pattern	就会发现一个惊人的特征
because connecting the dots drew a straight line	因为这些点都可以用一条直线连起来
and, at every point,	并且在每一点附近
the earth moved in the same way:	地面都以同样的方式移动
on the coast to the north, inland to the south.	海岸一侧朝北运动内陆一侧朝南运动
This line of weakness was the culprit	这条狭长的地壳薄弱地带就是
they were searching for.	他们所寻找的真凶
South of San Francisco the suspect line	在旧金山南边这条可疑的直线
ran underneath a lake the Laguna de San Andreas.	穿过了拉古娜·戴·圣安德烈亚斯湖底
So now, the earthquake perpetrator at last had a name	现在地震的罪魁祸首终于有了名字
Professor Lawson,	劳森教授
who a decade earlier had identified cracks in the earth here as a harmless rift,	在十年前将这条地壳裂痕鉴别为无害的
now rechristened it the San Andreas Fault.	现在他将其重命名为"圣安德鲁斯断层"
In modern-day San Francisco	在今天的旧金山
the buildings, the roads and the railways	各种建筑道路和铁轨
have long since been repaired.	都早已修复如初了
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But, if you know where to look	但如果你了解情况的话
evidence of the 1906 quake can still be found.	1906大地震的痕迹还是可以找到的
Geologist Charlie Paull	地质学家查理·保罗
follows in the footsteps of Lawson's team	追随着当年劳森团队的脚步
seeking signs of the havoc from 1906.	继续寻找1906年那场灾难留下的印迹
He finds it on the cliffs at Mussel Rock	他在旧金山以南12英里的
12 miles south of San Francisco.	穆索尔礁悬崖上有了新发现
	穆索尔礁
The cliff is not here by accident.	这道悬崖的出现绝非偶然
There's a very good reason why this cliff is here.	它的存在有着必然的原因
Half a mile or so of the shore face	差不多有半英里长的海岸
	查尔斯·保罗博士
	研究所
	蒙特利湾水族馆
apparently fell off in the 1906 earthquake	在1906大地震中出现了明显下沉
and if you look down below us,	如果你朝着我们脚下看去
there's a big rotated block, um	会看见一块翻转过的大石头
that's near the present-day shoreline	就在今天的海岸线附近
And it is just inboard of the San Andreas Fault.	而且它刚好位于圣安德鲁斯断层的内侧
The San Andreas Fault is, uh	圣安德鲁斯断层
about a quarter of a mile offshore here,	就在距海岸大约四分之一英里的地方
and of course, that's one of the major crustal junctions, um	当然那儿是在北美大陆一侧
on this side of North America.	一个主要的地壳连接处
Modern computers can now	现代计算机能够追踪到
trace how damage waves spread out across the city	地震波是如何在城市里传播的
and that pinpoints	并能定位出
where the quake originated along the San Andreas	在圣安德鲁斯断层沿线发生地震的地方
It was offshore about two miles out to sea from the Golden Gate Bridge.	它位于距金门大桥两英里外的海上
So, to continue tracking the fault,	因此为了继续追踪断层
the investigation must head out to sea.	调查必须在海上进行
Marine geologists use remote operating vehicles,	海洋地质学家利用远程遥控车
mini-submarines, to map the sea floor.	和迷你潜艇来绘制海底地貌
What you would see is subtle variations in the topography	你将会看到地表的细微变化
or topography that would not naturally line up.	地表不是天然平坦的
So there might be a line on the ocean floor	因此在海底可能存在一条线
that is higher or lower on one side	它在某一侧时高时低
and you can use various techniques	你可以使用各种技术
to determine that this actually is a fault	来判断这其实就是一个断层
instead of some other process.	而不是别的什么
Running south across the seabed the San Andreas	向南穿过海底
finally runs out of ocean and hits the land.	圣安德鲁斯断层冲出了海洋来到陆地
This broken line of rocks stretching in from the sea	这排从海中延伸出来的断裂岩石
marks where the San Andreas hits land	就是圣安德鲁斯断层与陆地相接的位置
12 miles south of San Francisco.	就在旧金山以南12英里的地方
We're here at Mussel Rock	我们就在穆索尔礁上
and we're essentially standing	我们现在其实就站在
on the San Andreas Fault right now	圣安德鲁斯断层上
and if there was an earthquake,	如果这里发生了地震
I don't know what would happen right here.	我不知道这里会发生什么
But I wouldn't want to be here.	但到时候我绝对不想呆在这儿
This Pacific coastline	在这条太平洋海岸线上
where cliffs crumble slowly into the sea	悬崖峭壁渐渐剥落碎石落入大海
is the boundary between two	这条海岸线是世界上
of the earth's massive continental plates.	最大的两个大陆板块的交界
Separated by the San Andreas Fault,	以圣安德鲁斯断层为界
two vast separate blocks of the earth's crust lie directly alongside each other.	两块巨大的大陆板块彼此紧靠着

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