BBC地平线系列之《全球怪象》第7集:核弹威力
日期:2014-10-01 20:21

(单词翻译:单击)

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As all of that heat drifts upwards,
热量向上转移时
it gets whipped into huge hurricane-force winds.
会激发巨大的强飓风
This is a process we all have personal experience of.
这是一个我们都有切身体会的过程
When people go outside,
人们外出的时候
and one of the main reasons we feel cool
感觉凉快的最主要一个原因
is water is evaporating from our skin.
是因为水分从皮肤上蒸发掉了
And when water evaporates from us, it chills us.
当水分蒸发 我们就会感到凉爽
And that energy doesn't disappear.
而那份能量却不会消失
It goes into the atmosphere.
它进入大气层中
And by the same token
同样地
when water evaporates from the oceans
当水分从海洋中蒸发后
it takes heat out the oceans
把海洋的热量
and puts it into the atmosphere.
释放到大气层中
Hurricanes are so powerful
飓风是如此猛烈
because the heat energy being transferred from the ocean to the atmosphere
因为从海洋转移到大气层的热量
is unimaginably huge.
数量之大 难以想象
They take heat from
它们把热量
hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean.
从数十万平方公里的海洋中带走
The average hurricane turns that into
一般的飓风能把它变成
three trillion watts of kinetic energy.
三万亿瓦特的动能
The equivalent of a ten megaton nuclear bomb
相当于每二十分钟
exploding about every 20 minutes.
就有一千万吨TNT当量的核弹爆炸

重点解释

it takes heat out the oceans and puts it into the atmosphere.把海洋的热量释放到大气层中

take out出发;发泄

They took out their resentments on each other.

他们互相发泄怨气。

because the heat energy being transferred from the ocean to the atmosphere is unimaginably huge.因为从海洋转移到大气层的热量数量之大,难以想象
transfer to转入

All the wounded soldiers transfer to a special hospital.

所有伤员都将转到一个特别的医疗治疗。

Our company will transfer to London.

我们公司将迁往伦敦。

The average hurricane turns that into three trillion watts of kinetic energy.一般的飓风能把它变成三万亿瓦特的动能

turn into(使)变成

Caterpillars turn into butterflies.

毛毛虫可以变成蝴蝶。

A flicker of interest soon turn into the burning flames of desire.

一丝情趣的星星之火未几演成了乾柴烈火。

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重点单词
  • equivalentadj. 等价的,相等的 n. 相等物
  • transfern. 迁移,移动,换车 v. 转移,调转,调任
  • hurricanen. 飓风,飓风般猛烈的东西 adj. 有防风罩的
  • minutesn. 会议记录,(复数)分钟
  • kineticadj. 运动的,动力学的