纪录片《地球的力量》第二集 大气04:臭氧层

We're approaching 45,000 feet

我们即将到达四万五千英尺高

and we're about to cross an invisible boundary in the atmosphere.

我们将穿过大气层中无形的分界面

We're leaving behind the first layer, the troposphere,

我们将要离开第一个大气层，对流层

and entering the stratosphere.

进入对流层

A very different place.

一个完全不同的地方

Here the air is stable and exceptionally dry,

这的大气很稳定并且非常的干燥

so there's virtually no weather.

所以这几乎没有天气的变化

The stratosphere is home to the ozone layer

平流层是臭氧层的家

which reduces the amount of lethal solar radiation reaching the Earth.

臭氧可以削弱到达地球的来自太阳的致命的辐射

We've reached 50,000 feet

我们已经到达5万英尺了

Nearly 80% of the mass of gases that make up the atmosphere are below me.

几乎组成大气的90%的气体都在我下面了

But almost 50 years ago, one man went much, much higher than me,

但是大概50年前有人比我去的地方高的多的多

and he experienced the atmosphere in a completely different way.

他以一种完全不同的方式体验了大气

On August 16th, 1960,

1960年8月16号

long before man had set foot on the Moon,

在人类踏上月球之前很长时间

military pilot Joe Kittinger

军事飞行员 乔.奇廷格

took a solo journey to explore the heavens.

独自一人到太空的边缘旅行了一次

重点讲解

1、invisible

看不见的;隐形的

The lines were so finely etched as to be invisible from a distance.

线条被蚀刻得如此精细，在远处看都看不见。

The belt is invisible even under the thinnest garments.

这种腰带即便在最薄的衣衫下都看不出来。

被人忽视的;不为人注意的

It was strange, how invisible a clerk could feel.

一名办事员会感到如此受人忽视，令人觉得不可思议。

The problems of the poor are largely invisible.

穷人的问题大多不受重视。

(收入)非贸易的,无形的

Tourism is Britain's single biggest invisible export.

旅游业是英国最大的一项无形输出。

The revenue from tourism is the biggest single item in the country's invisible earnings.

旅游业收入是该国无形收益当中最大的一项。

2、exceptionally

优异的;非凡的

children with exceptional ability.

具有非凡才能的孩子们

His translation is exceptional in its poetic quality.

他的译作非常有诗意。

例外的;特殊的

if the courts hold that this case is exceptional.

如果法庭认为这是个特殊案例

School governors have the discretion to allow parents to withdraw pupils in exceptional circumstances.

督学可以酌情允许父母在特殊情况下让学生退学。

3、make up

组成;构成

North Africans make up the largest and poorest immigrant group in the country.

北非人构成了该国最大的、也是最贫困的移民群。

Women officers make up 13 per cent of the police force.

女警占警力的13%。

编造;虚构

I think it's very unkind of you to make up stories about him.

我认为你编造他的谣言很不厚道。

I'm not making it up. The character exists in real life.

我没有凭空捏造，这种人现实生活中确实存在。

（给…）化妆;（为…）打扮

She spent too much time making herself up.

她在化妆上花去了太多时间。

She chose Maggie to make her up for her engagement photographs.

她选择玛吉为她拍订婚照的时候化妆。

和解;和好

She came back and they made up.

她回来之后他们又和好如初。

They never made up the quarrel.

他们再也没能和解。