视频 | Nature Is Speaking系列选(11-12),学习英语好资源
11 Mountain
12 sky
Look up.There I am.
抬头看,我在这里
I am the sky.
我是天空
I am a warm, protective, blanket.
天衣无缝,我散发温暖,保护地球上的每一个人
Wrapped around everyone on earth.
I can bring clouds, rain, and wind.I can be an ice storm.
风起云动雨飘,甚至狂风暴雨,都由我掌控
Without me, you'd fry.
没有我,你将受尽烈日煎熬
Every day, I am the breath you take in.
我是你呼吸的每一口空气
Yet you are making me sick.I am congested. Off balance. Polluted.
但你却害我奄奄一息,失去平衡,充满污染
You see, I am more delicate than you think.
其实我,比你所想的要脆弱
It took millions of years to get it just right – my perfect mix of gases, temperature and weather that you enjoy.
经历了数百万年,才完美调整好适应你用的空气、温度和气候
But now your cars, your factories and dust, they have pushed me past thelimit.
现在,你用汽车、工厂、灰尘将我逼向绝境
And you wonder why my typhoons and tornadoes are more intense, morefrequent?
却反向我抱怨台风、龙卷风为何更密更狂
I’ve become unpredictable.
天,更多不测风云
Less rain here. A lot more rain there.
这里久旱不雨,那里雨水泛滥
Hotter summers. Colder winters.
炎夏更炎,寒冬更寒
I can’t even control myself anymore.
我已无法自控
Enough about me. I will show my changing self to you in your days ahead.
算了吧,来日给你们展现我的剧变吧
But in the end, I’ll be fine.
最后,天是不会塌下来的
Give me a few thousand years, I have weathered trauma before.
给我几千年吧,以往大秧大祸,我都有力回天
I am not worried for myself.
我担心的不是自己而是你
Look up.