Ted 演讲-the boiling river (中英对照)

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But then ... I heard something, a low surge that got louder and louder as we came closer. It sounded like ocean waves constantly crashing, and as we got closer, I saw smoke, vapor, coming up through the trees. And then, I saw this.

但是，紧接着，我听到一些声响，随着我们逐步走进，一股低涌-变得越来越响彻。就像海浪不停的冲击一样，而当我们走近时，我看到烟雾和蒸汽从树林中冒出。不久，我看到了这个。

I immediately grabbed for my thermometer, and the average temperatures in the river were 86 degrees C. This is not quite the 100-degree C boiling but definitely close enough. The river flowed hot and fast. I followed it upriver and was led by, actually, the shaman's apprentice to the most sacred site on the river. And this is what's bizarre -- It starts off as a cold stream. And here, at this site, is the home of the Yacumama, mother of the waters, a giant serpent spirit who births hot and cold water. And here we find a hot spring, mixing with cold stream water underneath her protective motherly jaws and thus bringing their legends to life.

我立马拿起了温度计，测量到这条河流的平均温度为 86℃。虽然这并没有达到100℃的沸点，但也很接近了。这条高温河水流湍急。在这位萨满大师徒弟的带领下，我沿河而上，去往这条河最神圣的地点。奇妙的事情发生了，这条河的起点是冷流。而这个地方，是亚库马马的故乡，亚库马马是河之母，是创造冷热水的巨大的蛇灵。而在这里，我们找到了一处热泉，同受她保护的河口下的冷流混合在一起，将这些传说变为现实。

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I met the shaman, and he seemed like an extension of the river and his jungle. He asked for my intentions and listened carefully. Then, to my tremendous relief -- I was freaking out, to be honest with you -- a smile began to snake across his face, and he just laughed.

我见到了萨满大师，似乎他也成了这条河和丛林的一部分。他询问我的来意，用心倾听。不久，我便感到压力减轻了-- 老实告诉你，我当时可吓坏了-- 他嘴角微微上扬，他笑了。

I had received the shaman's blessing to study the river, on the condition that after I take the water samples and analyze them in my lab, wherever I was in the

world, that I pour the waters back into the ground so that, as the shaman said, the waters could find their way back home.

我对这条河的研究得到了萨满大师的祝福，他只有一点要求，那便是待我取样并带回实验室分析后，不管我在世界的哪一个角落，我要把这些水倒回地上，萨满大师说，这样这些水便能回到河流里。

Despite his skepticism, he was still expecting to see the boiling river.

He promised to pour the water samples back into the ground after analyzing them in his lab.

He was freaking out when the shaman asked about his intentions.

He immediately grabbed his thermometer to measure the river’s temperature.

I've been back every year since that first visit in 2011, and the fieldwork has been exhilarating, demanding and at times dangerous. One story was even featured in National Geographic Magazine. I was trapped on a small rock about the size of a sheet of paper in sandals and board shorts, in between an 80 degree C river and a hot spring that, well, looked like this, close to boiling. And on top of that, it was Amazon rain forest. Pshh, pouring rain, couldn't see a thing. The temperature differential made it all white. It was a whiteout. Intense.

2011年的勘测后，我每年都会回去，我的勘测结果甚是喜人，有些时候也颇有些危险和挑战。我的故事甚至被刊登到了《国家地理》这本杂志上。我被困在了和一张纸一样大小的石头上，穿着凉鞋和运动短裤，置身于80℃的河水和接近沸点的温泉中。不仅如此，那还是在亚马逊雨林。那是倾盆大雨，什么也看不见。温差使得周围的一切看起来都是白色的。局势很紧张。

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Now, after years of work, I'll soon be submitting my geophysical and geochemical studies for publication. And I'd like to share, today, with all of you here, on the TED stage, for the first time, some of these discoveries.

现在，经过多年的研究，我即将发表关于地球物理和化学的论文。今天站在TED的舞台上，我想和大家一起分享，这也是我首次揭露其中的一些发现。

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Now, I understand not all of you are geothermal scientists, so to put it in more everyday terms: Everyone loves coffee. Yes? Good. Your regular cup of coffee, 54 degrees C, an extra-hot one, well, 60.So, put in coffee shop terms, the boiling river plots like this. There you have your hot coffee. Here you have your extra-hot coffee, and you can see that there's a bit point there where the river is still hotter than even the extra-hot coffee. And these are average water temperatures. We took these in

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But there's a magic number here that's not being shown, and that number is 47 degrees C, because that's where things start to hurt, and I know this from very personal experience. Above that temperature, you don't want to get in that water. You need to be careful. It can be deadly.

但有一个神奇的数字并没有显示出来，那就是47℃，因为这是有害的临界点。我知道这一点是因为我自己有过这样的经历。超过47℃之后，没有人会想站在那里。你得格外小心。因为这可能是致命的。

I've seen all sorts of animals fall in, and what's shocking to me, is the process is pretty much the same. So they fall in and the first thing to go are the eyes. Eyes, apparently, cook very quickly. They turn this milky-white color. The stream is carrying them. They're trying to swim out, but their meat is cooking on the bone because it's so hot. So they're losing power, losing power, until finally they get to a point where hot water goes into their mouths and they cook from the inside out.

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