家园字幕前三十分钟双语.docx

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