地震不断 2012的预言可能成真?

　　Geological apocalypse is a better bet. There have been big earthquakes in California before and probably will be again. These quakes could destroy Los Angeles, as shown in the movie, and Yellowstone could erupt again with cataclysmic force sooner or later. We and our works are indeed fragile and temporary riders on the Earth. But in this case, "sooner or later" means hundreds of millions of years, and there would be plenty of warning.

　　实际上，地质学上的灾变预言或许更令人信服。加利福尼亚此前曾发生过大地震，今后也可能还会有。这些地震可能像电影《2012》中演的那样摧毁洛杉矶。黄石国家公园里的火山可能迟早会以灾难性的自然威力再次喷发。我们和我们拥有的一切实际上非常脆弱，都只是地球的暂时过客。但假使这样的话，“迟早”也意味着数亿年的时间，而其间将会有大量的前兆。

　　The Mayans, who were good-enough astronomers and timekeepers to predict Venus's position 500 years in the future, deserve better than this.

　　玛雅人在天文学和记录时间方面足够出色。他们在那个年代就预言了500年后金星的位置。而值得称颂的还不仅于此。

　　Mayan time was cyclic, and experts like Dr. Krupp and Anthony Aveni, an astronomer and anthropologist at Colgate University, say there is no evidence that the Mayans thought anything special would happen when the odometer rolled over on this Long Count in 2012. There are references in Mayan inscriptions to dates both before the beginning and the ending of the present Long Count, they say, just as your next birthday and April 15 loom beyond New Year's Eve, on next year's calendar.

　　玛雅人的时间是循环的，包括克虏伯博士和科尔盖特大学天文学和人类学家安东尼·阿韦尼在内的专家们说，没有证据证明玛雅人认为有什么特别的事情将在2012年“长历法”一轮回结束时发生。专家们说，在玛雅人的石刻里，有关于目前“长历法”轮回开始和结束前的日子的标识，正像你知道你的下一个生日和4月15日将出现在明年日历的新年前夜之后一样。

　　So keep up those mortgage payments.

　　因此，还是接着还房贷吧。