7020《生而为人，我们都是宇宙的奇迹》英文

生而为人，我们都是宇宙的奇迹 Listen to me, please. 请听好 You're like me, a Homo sapiens. 你跟我一样,是智人 A wise human. 一个有智慧的人 Life, a miracle in the universe, 生命是宇宙的奇迹 appeared around four billion years ago, 出现于约四十亿年前 and we humans only 200,000 years ago. 而我们人类只有二十万年历史 Yet we have succeeded in disrupting the balance... 但是我们却破坏了 that is so essential to life on Earth. 地球生命赖以生存的平衡 Listen carefully to this extraordinary story, which is yours, 请细听这个不寻常的的故事,你的故事 and decide what you want to do with it. 然后决定你应该做什么 These are traces of our origins. 这是我们的起源的轨迹 At the beginning, our planet was no more than a chaos of fire, 最初,我们的星球不过是一个浑沌的火球 formed in the wake of its star, the sun. 伴随它的恒星--太阳诞生而形成的 A cloud of agglutinated dust particles, 一团粘聚的尘埃颗粒 similar to so many similar clusters in the universe. 就像宇宙里面许多类似的星云 Yet this was where the miracle of life occurred. 然而生命的奇迹就在此诞生 Today, our life 今天,我们的生命 is just a link in a chain of innumerable living beings... 是地球上无数生物形成的生命链中的一环 that have succeeded one another on Earth over nearly four billion years. 在近40亿年里,这些生物被彼此继承取代 And even today, new volcanoes continue to sculpt our landscapes. 即使到了今天,新的火山继续改变我们的景观 They offer a glimpse of what our Earth was like at its birth 它们让我们目睹了盘古初开时地球的样子 molten rock surging from the depths, 熔石从深处涌出 solidifying, cracking, 开始凝固,裂开 blistering or spreading in a thin crust, 冒着泡,或摊开形成薄的外壳 before fabling dormant for a time. 然后再休眠一段时间 These wreaths of smoke curling from the bowels of the Earth... 这些从地球内部吐出缭绕的烟圈 bear witness to the Earth's original atmosphere. 是地球原始大气层的见证 An atmosphere devoid of oxygen. 一个没有氧气的大气层 A dense atmosphere, thick with water vapor,full of carbon dioxide. 稠密的大气层,充满水蒸气和二氧化碳 A furnace. 一个熔炉 But the Earth had an exceptional future, offered to it by water. 因为有水,地球有了一个与众不同的未来 At the right distance from the sun— not too far, not too near 地球与太阳之间的距离适中不太远,不太近 the Earth was able to conserve water in liquid form. 因此地球上的水能够处于液体状态 Water vapor condensed and fell in torrential downpours on Earth, 水蒸气凝结后形成滂沱大雨降落在地球上 and rivers appeared. 河流出现了 The rivers shaped the surface of the Earth, 河流改变了地球表面 cutting their channels, 刻削着河道 furrowing out valleys. 并冲刷出山谷 They ran toward the lowest places on the globe to form the oceans. 它们流向地球上最低洼的地方形成海洋 They tore minerals from the rocks, 水溶解了岩石的矿物质