Alaska： Spirit of the Wild《阿拉斯加：荒野的精神（1997）》完整中英文对照剧本.docxVIP

Earth, 18,000 years before the present地球距今一万八千年以前its a world locked in cold这是个冰封世界at the height of the last great Ice Age正处在最近一次冰期的极盛时Across tens of thousands of years经过十万年unmelting snows have compacted into massive glaciers未融化的雪堆积挤压成庞大的冰川Buried under ice sheets averaging a mile thick埋在冰层底下的则是平均一英哩厚的陆地are lands where hundreds of millions live today这就是现今住满人的陆地As Earths water is increasing locked up in ice当时地球的水份不断的变成冰sea levels plummet more than a hundred meters因此海平面也骤然下降百馀尺Exposed sea floor nearly joins Australia to Southeast Asia裸hearts;露hearts;的海底几乎使澳洲与东南亚相连Japan becomes part of mainland Asia日本变成亚洲大hearts;陆hearts;的一部分Across North America ice fields and glaciers在北美洲冰川与冰原envelop all of Canada and northernmost United States覆盖了整个加拿大以及美国最北部As the Ice Age spreads Alaska emerges as a crossroads当冰原范围扩大，阿hearts;拉hearts;斯加逐渐成为来往的通道Off its Bering sea coastline海水退离白令海岸线the retreating ocean exposes a great land bridge裸hearts;露hearts;出一片宽达千哩的大hearts;陆hearts;桥a thousand miles wide connecting Asia to America连接亚洲和美洲大hearts;陆hearts;Across this corridor a river of living creatures would flow许多生物便藉著这个走廊来往于陆地之间It was the genesis of a great wave of life这是美洲生物种类大量繁衍的起始that would inhabit the Americas and this was its Eden这儿曾是生物的伊甸国Crossing into ancient Alaska从亚洲迁徙到古代阿hearts;拉hearts;斯加的草食动物migrating herds find new forage and sheltering valleys找寻到新的食物与栖住地but theyre followed from Asia by fierce carnivore但是凶猛的肉食动物以及人类等saber toothed cats giant bears牙齿锐利剑齿虎、巨熊等and the greatest of all predators其他主要的掠食动物也随之而来They arrive in small bands from Siberia他们小群的从西伯利亚前来pressing east in pursuit of game并继续往东追寻猎物unaware theyre discovering a continent全然不知他们已经发现了一个新大hearts;陆hearts;The hunters are sustained by bison moose woolly mammoth最初的美洲人就是靠着野牛、麋鹿各种多毛的哺乳类and the wild reindeer called caribou以及驯鹿来维生Where frozen tundra limits vegetation meat is life由于冻原限制了植物的生长，肉类便成为维生的主食Most of the year it is kill or starve不捕猎便挨饿The hunters prosper here across mi