地球的力量

Ice has bulldozed and carved the world we know on a colossal scale.

冰用巨大的规模来推平和雕刻世界

But what is it that gives something as brittle as ice

在地球上能找到像冰一样易碎

supremacy over the hardest and most resilient rocks

却能比最硬的石头

to be found on the planet?

还坚固的东西么？

To find out, you need to see inside a glacier.

若要找出答案，你需要看到冰川的内部

The Svartisen Glacier in Norway is one of the few places on Earth

斯瓦迪森冰川坐落在挪威的北极圏

where ice can really be seen in action.

这里你能看到冰在运动

It's thanks to this glacier that scientists are starting to understand

感谢这个冰川让我们揭开

the secrets of ice's great power.

冰伟大力量的神秘

Deep beneath the glacier, in a chamber at the end,

在隧道尽头的房间里

scientists come face to face with ice.

科学家们能与冰层亲密接触了

Then it's two days of of hard work using hot water

花了两天的时间喷洒热水

to melt a cave big enough to get inside the glacier and see it in all its glory.

大小足够人们进入 用来仔细观察它的光辉

Here's the ice tunnel. Watch your head!

这里就是冰层隧道，注意头顶！

Miriam Jackson's a glaciologist.

米里亚姆杰克逊是一位地理学家

She spends up to three weeks at a time down here.

她在这底下一次都要待上整整三个礼拜

Look at that!It's beautiful! -It's amazing, isn't it?

看啊！太漂亮了！-不可思议，对吧？

It's absolutely beautiful.

简直太漂亮了

This is like a piece of art. It is, isn't it?

就像是一件艺术品是吧？

Wow!You've got to remember there's 200 metres of ice over us now.

哇喔！米里亚姆·杰克逊博士挪威水资源和能源博士你要知道我们头顶上的冰层有两百米厚

200 metres?JACKSON: Yes, we're at the bottom of the glacier and the ice is over us.

两百米？是的，我们正处于冰河的底下冰层就在我们头上

-It's also closing in on us. -As we speak, it's contracting in?

-而冰层正在靠近我们-靠近？这里的空间在缩小？

Yeah. We couldn't stand here for 48 hours,

是的，这里不能待超过48小时

the ice would close in on us.

冰将把我们关在这里

We'd be stuck fossilised in the ice, like a big ice cube.

我们会变成冰化石就像一个大的冰立方

重点讲解

1、bulldoze

（用推土机）铲平，推倒

She defeated developers who wanted to bulldoze her home to build a supermarket.

她打败了那些想推倒她家房屋兴建超市的开发商们。

（用推土机）推平，清除

Last week, the department's road builders began to bulldoze a water meadow on Twyford Down.

上个星期，这个部门的筑路机开始将特怀福德丘陵地带的浸水草甸推平。

强行通过（计划等）；强迫（某人做某事）

The party in power planned to bulldoze through a full socialist programme.

执政党打算强制推行一个全面的社会主义方案。

The coalition bulldozed the resolution through the plenary session.

政党联盟强行使该项决议在全体会议上通过。

2、contract

合同;契约

The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building.

这家公司赢得了一份极为重要的合同，参与建设欧洲最高的大厦。

He was given a seven-year contract with an annual salary of $150,000.

他签下了一份为期7年的合同，年薪为15万美元。

签合同，订立契约(做某事)

You can contract with us to deliver your cargo.

你可以跟我们签订送货合同。

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already contracted to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.

波士顿美术博物馆已经签订合同，将其部分藏品租借给日本一家博物馆。

(使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短

Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts.

血液在心脏收缩的时候从心脏流出。

New research shows that an excess of meat and salt can contract muscles.

新的研究表明，过量食用肉类和盐可能会导致肌肉收缩。