(单词翻译:单击)
DON:Anyone with the gumption to be up before dawn will tell you that when those first rays of light come over the horizon after a clear night, it gets warmer, and...
唐:任何有进取心破晓前起床的人都会告诉你,当在晴朗的夜晚后第一缕阳光越过地平线,温度就会变得暖和,而且…
Yael:Don?
雅艾尔:唐?
DON:Uh, Yael. I'm trying to do a radio program here.
唐:嗯,雅艾尔 。我想在这里听听广播节目 。
YAEL:Yes, but when the sun first rises it doesn't get warmer right away.
雅艾尔:可以,但当太阳第一次升起的时候不会马上暖和 。
DON:I-it doesn't.
唐:不是这样的 。
YAEL:No, it actually feels colder.
雅艾尔:实际上会感觉更冷 。
In fact, barring any storm fronts, the coldest time of day is sometime just after dawn.
事实上,除了任何风暴以外,一天中最冷的时间恰巧就是破晓的某个时段 。
DON:It is?
唐:真的吗?
YAEL:See, the sun is kind of like a microwave and the ground is kind of like a frozen TV dinner.
雅艾尔:你看,太阳就像是一种微波而大地有点像冰冻的电视晚餐 。
DON:Okay. I like dinner. Go on.
唐:好吧 。我喜欢晚餐 。继续说下去 。
YAEL:The earth absorbs some heat from the atmosphere during the night.
雅艾尔:大地在晚上吸收大气中的热量 。
Sort of like putting your dinner out to thaw, but during the day, the sun acts like a microwave and quickly heats up the ground.
就好比把你的晚餐解冻,但在白天太阳就像一种微波并且使地面快速升温 。
Once the sun sets, the ground cools off by radiating heat out to the atmosphere and some escapes into space.
一旦太阳西下,大地会通过散发热量到大气中进行冷却并且有一些会逃进宇宙空间 。
Just as when the microwave stops, your dinner starts to cool down.
就像当微波停止,你的晚餐开始冷却 。
DON:That makes sense.
唐:有道理 。
YAEL:At dawn, the first rays of sunshine are weak.
雅艾尔:黎明时分,第一缕阳光非常弱 。
It takes time for the incoming radiation from the sun to counteract the rate that the ground is losing heat.
来自太阳的辐射需要时间以中和大地失去热量的比率 。
Contrary to what you might think, that means the temperatures are coldest after dawn.
可能与你所想的相反,这意味着黎明之后温度变得最为寒冷 。
It doesn't get warmer until the sun is stronger and the ground starts to absorb heat again.
直到太阳更为强大而且地面又再次开始吸收热量后才会升温 。
DON:So it's like if I put my frozen dinner in the microwave for, say, 20 seconds, it's still frozen.
唐:所以这就好比我把冷冻餐放入微波炉里转20秒,它仍然冻的硬邦邦 。
It takes the microwave time to warm up your dinner enough to unfreeze it.
这需要时间让微波来使你的晚餐升温到足以融化它 。
YAEL:Exactly.
雅艾尔:没错 。
DON:I think I'm hungry. Let's go eat.
唐:我饿了 。让我们去吃点东西吧 。