水下生存 Underwater living

Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.I’m Rob and with me is Finn. Hello, Fin.
大家好，欢迎收听六分钟英语节目。我是Rob，今天我的搭档是Finn。你好，Finn。
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Finn? Are you ok?
Finn？你怎么了？
Ahhh… 49 seconds… I was just… holding my breath!
啊……49秒……我刚才……在憋气呢！
A new hobby of yours, Finn?
这是你的新爱好吗，Finn?
Well today… we’re talking about people living underwater – so I thought I could do with some practice.
其实是因为……今天我们要讨论的话题是水下生存嘛——所以我想先来做个练习试试看。
Ok – well you get your breath back.Today, we’ll be hearing about scientists who broke the world record for time spent underwater –they spent an incredible 31 days under the waves! And we’ll be learning some related vocabulary too. Ready now, Finn?
好吧——还好你喘上气来了。今天我们将听到的内容是一些科学家打破了水下生存的世界纪录——他们在水下整整呆了31天，真是不可思议啊！当然我们还会学习到一些相关词汇。准备好了吗，Finn？
Yes – I think so. And are you ready for this week’s question?
恩——我想是。你准备好回答今天的问题了吗？
Hit me with it.
来吧。
This week’s question is… what is the longest time a human being has held their breath underwater for? Is it: a) 12 minutes b) 18 minutes c) 22 minutes
本周的问题是……你知道人类在水下憋气时间最长的记录是多少吗？a) 12分钟b) 18分钟c) 22分钟
I’m going to go for b) 18 minutes.
我选b)18分钟。
I’ll tell you if you’re right or wrong at the end of the programme, but… don’t hold your breath!
节目的最后我再来告诉你答案，但是……可别太指望！
Haha. Don’t hold your breath –a phrase which means ’don’t expect that a particular good thing will happen’.Anyway – what about these scientists – did they hold their breath for 31 days?
哈哈。别太指望——这个短语的意思就是“别太期待某件好事会发生”。那这些科学家是怎样在水下生存了31天的呢？
Haha – no – but they did live underwater in a laboratory. That’s a room or building with scientific equipment for doing tests.
哈哈——不是——他们其实是呆在一间水下的实验室里。就是一个带有科学设备的、能用来做实验的房间或者建筑。
One of the men was Fabien Cousteau, who’s an oceanographer – someone who studies the oceans. He’s the grandson of Jacques Cousteau –a Frenchman who held the previous record of 30 days underwater.
其中一个科学家是Fabien Cousteau，他是一位海洋学家——专门研究海洋的人。他是Jacques Cousteau的孙子——曾经创下了水下生存30个小时记录的法国人。
Fabien said he wanted to break his grandfather’s record to raise awareness of ocean conservation – protecting and looking after the ocean.
Fabien说他想打破祖父的记录，并以此来引起人们对海洋保护的关注——保护并关注海洋环境。
Well he’s raised our awareness at least. Now I’m interested in how they lived underwater. Listen to Fabien talking about the laboratory called Aquarius. Which word does he use to say that the lab is completely underwater?
他的确引起了我们的注意。现在我很好奇他们在水下是怎样生存的。让我们来听听Fabien来聊聊关于Aquarius实验室的事情。看看他用了什么词来描述这个完全在水下的实验室的。
Aquarius is very unique in that it’s the only undersea marine laboratory – it gives us a unique platform from which to live and explore this final frontier on our planet.
Aquarius非常独特，它是世界上唯一的海底海洋实验室——它给了我们一个非常独特的平台来体验生存并研究海洋——我们地球上最后一个阵地。
He called it an undersea laboratory. ‘Undersea’ is, as you might guess a word similar to underwater. It means under the sea.
他把它叫做海底实验室。“海底”这个词和“水下”的意思差不多。意思就是在水的下面。
And he called this undersea world ’the final frontier’. It’s an interesting phrase – it comes from the Star Trek television series,which called space the final frontier – the last place that humans have not yet travelled to, the last place to explore.
他还把这个水下世界成为“最后一个阵地”。这个描述很有趣——是出自星际迷航电视剧，里面把太空称为最后一个阵地——人类还未曾涉足并探索的最后一个地方。
And apparently this laboratory was 18 metres under the sea in Florida...and being there allowed them to spend less time diving and more time observing marine life.
这个实验室位于弗罗里达州海底18米。在哪里，他们可以花费更少的时间潜水，把时间更多的放在观察海洋生物上面。
Marine life – that means ’of the sea’, so marine life means sea life, plants and animals that live in the sea. They were particularly interested in investigating the effects of pollution on coral.
海洋生物——就是生存在海洋里面的生物，包括植物还有动物。他们还对调查珊瑚污染的影响非常感兴趣。
Now, I know they did this to raise awareness of marine conservation. But what I’m really interested in is what life was like for them.What was it like to live underwater for so long?
现在，我知道他们的确引起了人们对海洋保护的关注。但是我真的很想知道他们在海底实验室是怎么生活的。在水下生活那么长时间感觉如何呢？
Surprisingly, perhaps, life there wasn’t too bad. They had air conditioning, hot water and internet access!
很不可思议的是，在水下的生活或许没那么糟糕。他们有空调、热水，甚至还有网络！
Though I do know that Fabien struggled with one aspect. Listen to him to find out what:
但是有一点我知道Fabien是很纠结的。让我们来听听他是怎么说的：
Unfortunately for me, as a French person, the food will also be simulated – freeze-dried, astronaut type of food, canned foods – things like that, so it’s a horror show for me.
作为一个法国人，在食物方面让我很难以忍受——冻干的食物、太空食物、罐头等等，这对我来说简直就是糟糕透了。
Poor Fabien. He said the food was pretty awful. Maybe it was English food?!
可怜的Fabien。他说食物实在是太难吃了。可能是英国食物吧？！
Probably – as a Frenchman he wasn’t impressed by the freeze-dried food – that means food that is quickly frozen and dried – to preserve it.
可能把——作为一个法国人，他真的对冻干食物完全没兴趣——那种食物就是通过快速冰冻风干来保存的食物。
Yes, he thought it was astronaut style food – the sort of food you would eat as an astronaut – someone who travels into space!
没错，他认为那是太空食物——太空员在太空遨游的时候会吃的那些东西！
And coming back to dry land they had to spend 16 hours decompressing.
还有一点，他们回到陆地的时候，还要花上16个小时来减压。
That’s very important. Divers have to decompress – to return to their original body pressure – when they come out of the water.
这一点很重要。潜水员要减压——让身上的压强变成原来的水平——然后他们才能从水里出来。
Sounds like a long time to wait for a good meal! So Rob – what do you think? Would you like to live underwater for a month?
听起来像是花好长时间来等一顿大餐的感觉！那么Rob——你觉得怎么样呢？你想体验一下在水下生活一个月的生活吗？
Absolutely not. I’d get very claustrophobic in those small spaces.
还是不要了吧。在那样狭小的空间里我会犯幽闭恐怖症的。
Anyway – let’s see if you got this week’s question right. I asked you what you thought the world record for holding your breath for underwater was.
好吧——那让我们来看看你的问题回答的怎么样。在节目的一开始我问你的问题是：水下憋气时间最长的世界记录是多少。
I went for 18 minutes.
我选的是18分钟。
Actually is was even longer than that. 22 minutes, 0 seconds by Stig Severinsen from Denmark. Stig was allowed to hyperventilate – breathe fast and deeply using oxygen before the attempt.Please don’t try this at home!Well, that brings us to the end of today’s 6 Minute English. We hope you’ve enjoyed today’s underwater programme. Please join us again soon. Bye.
但实际上要比那个长哦。是22分钟，0秒，纪录创造者是来自丹麦的Stig Severinsen。Stig在正式开始下水之前被允许强力呼吸——就是快速以及大量的吸入氧气。在家里可千万不要这样尝试啊！好的，那我们今天的节目到这里就要结束啦。希望大家喜欢今天的节目。我们下次再见。BYE.
Bye.
再见。