地球的力量

First thing, you'd see dust and wind.

一开始你会看到扬尘和大风

and you'd feel rumbling.

周围隆隆巨响

An enormous flood quickly followed.

紧接而来的就是湍急的洪水

Lake Missoula s water had begun a fast and furious journey across the American continent.

密苏拉湖水滚滚而来 以及快的速度肆虐过美国的陆地

It would be moving very fast.

速度一定非常快

We're driving at just about the same speed as the water.

我们现在的车速和洪水速度差不多

It would have torn through the landscape

洪水肆虐过陆地

with the energy equivalent of 60 Amazon Rivers.

那能量相当于六十条亚马逊河的能量

It would have ripped up everything in its path.

洪水将冲走面前的一切

You can imagine water a hundred metres above your head,

你可以想象下高你百米的洪水

all dark, filled with sediment and all kinds of debris, large rocks,

天昏地暗，带着沉淀物，各种碎片，大石块

trees, woolly mammoths, anything.

树木，猛犸象般的巨物，等等

I think it would be absolutely terrifying.

那绝对太可怕了

The water cut into the land up to 650 feet deep,

洪水冲过陆地，冲刷出二百米深的大沟

excavating billions of tons of solid rock.

挖出了几十亿吨的岩石

It would probably be described as a kind of giant monster.

说是巨大的怪兽也毫不过分

重点讲解

1、enormous

巨大的;极大的;很多的

The main bedroom is enormous.

主卧室非常大。

There is, of course, an enormous amount to see.

当然有很多可看的。

（范围、程度）极大的

It was an enormous disappointment.

真是让人万分失望。

his enormous capacity for brutality.

他的穷凶极恶

2、equivalent

等同物;等值物；对应物

The equivalent of two tablespoons of polyunsaturated oils is ample each day.

每天相当于两大汤匙多重不饱和油的量就足够了。

Even the cheapest car costs the equivalent of 70 years' salary for a government worker.

即使是最便宜的汽车，价格也相当于一个公务员70年的薪水。

相等物;对应物；对应者

the civil administrator of the West Bank and his equivalent in Gaza.

约旦河西岸的民政官和加沙的同职官员

the Red Cross emblem, and its equivalent in Muslim countries, the Red Crescent.

红十字及其在伊斯兰国家的对应标志——红月牙

3、describe

描述;描写;形容;叙述

We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time.

我们请她描述一下她业余时间都在做什么。

She broke down describing how she was arrested for refusing a breath test.

她在叙述自己如何因为拒绝接受呼吸测试而被捕时再也控制不住情绪。

把…说成;把…称为;认为

He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.

他说那是一个非常曲折复杂的故事。

Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'.

埃里克森称他是“场上最好的球员”。