TED中英官方演讲稿-EddyCartaya_2013Y我的冰川岩发现经过.docx

1.So how many of you have ever been in a cave before? 你们之中有多少人去过岩洞？2.Okay, a few of you. 当然，只有少数人。3.When you think of a cave, most of you think of a tunnel going through solid rock, and in fact, thats how most caves are. 当然，只有少数人。 一个隧道，周围都是岩石。 实际上，大多数岩洞是这样的。4.Around this half of the country, most of your caves are made of limestone. 这个国家的这半部分， 大多数岩洞是由石灰石组成的。5.Back where Im from, most of our caves are made of lava rock, because we have a lot of volcanoes out there. 在我的家乡，大多数岩洞是由岩浆岩组成的。 因为那里有很多火山。6.But the caves I want to share with you today are made completely of ice, specifically glacier ice thats formed in the side of the tallest mountain 但是我今天与你分享的岩洞是 完全由冰组成的，特别是冰川冰。 位于俄勒冈州最高山——7.in the state of Oregon, called Mount Hood. 胡德山的一侧。8.Now Mount Hoods only one hours drive from Portland, the largest city in Oregon, where over two million people live. 只需开一个钟头就可以从波特兰开车到胡德山。 波特兰是俄勒冈州最大的城市， 那里有两百万人。9.Now the most exciting thing for a cave explorer is to find a new cave and be the first human to ever go into it. 对于岩洞探险家来说， 最兴奋的事情莫过于发现新岩洞， 并成为第一个走进去的人。10.The second most exciting thing for a cave explorer is to be the first one to make a map of a cave. 第二件兴奋的事情是 为岩洞绘制第一张地图。11.Now these days, with so many people hiking around, its pretty hard to find a new cave, so you can imagine how excited we were to find three new caves 时下，出外远足的人是如此之多。 发现一个新岩洞还真不容易。 这样你就可以想象当我们发现了三个新岩洞时 是多么的兴奋。12.within sight of Oregons largest city and realize that they had never been explored or mapped before. 尤其是在俄勒冈州最大的城市发现它们 还没有人探索过这些岩洞， 或者绘制一幅地图。13.It was kind of like being an astronaut, because we were getting to see things and go places that no one had ever seen or gone to before. 我们有些像宇航员， 去探索并发现一个 从来没有人见过、去过的地方。14.So what is a glacier? 什么是冰川？15.Well, those of you who have ever seen or touched snow, you know that its really light, because its just a bunch of tiny ice crystals clumped together, and its mostly air. 你们中有些人摸过雪。 雪非常轻。 因为它是由冰