TED2009
Sylvia Earle: My wish: Protect our oceans
Sylvia Earle的TED Prize（TED 大奖）愿望：保护海洋
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Sylvia Earle是一位传奇的海洋学者，她与我们分享了令人惊奇的海洋图片——以及让人震惊的海洋生态急速衰退——正如她的TED大奖获奖祝愿：愿我们能与她一起参与到保护这个蓝色星球的行列中。
Sylvia Earle - Oceanographer
Sylvia Earle has been at the forefront of ocean exploration for more than four decades. The winner of the 2009 TED Prize, she's a tireless advocate for our oceans. Full bio
Sylvia Earle has been at the forefront of ocean exploration for more than four decades. The winner of the 2009 TED Prize, she's a tireless advocate for our oceans. Full bio
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Fifty years ago, when I began exploring the ocean,
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50年前，当我开始探索海洋的时候，
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no one -- not Jacques Perrin, not Jacques Cousteau or Rachel Carson --
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没有人，包括Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cousteau 或 Rachel Carson会想到
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imagined that we could do anything to harm the ocean
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我们向大海排放的东西
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by what we put into it or by what we took out of it.
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或是对海洋的索取就可以伤害到海洋
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It seemed, at that time, to be a sea of Eden,
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那时候的大海就如同伊甸园一般
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but now we know, and now we are facing paradise lost.
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但现在的我们知道，我们正从伊甸园走向失乐园
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I want to share with you
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我想与你们分享
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my personal view of changes in the sea that affect all of us,
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我个人对发生在海洋中那些与我们息息相关的变化的看法
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and to consider why it matters that in 50 years, we've lost --
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并思考为什么50年来我们所失去的一切意义重大
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actually, we've taken, we've eaten --
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事实上，我们已经捕获、食用了
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more than 90 percent of the big fish in the sea;
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海洋中超过90%的大型鱼类
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why you should care that nearly half of the coral reefs have disappeared;
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为什么你要关心几乎已经消失一半的珊瑚礁
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why a mysterious depletion of oxygen in large areas of the Pacific
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为什么太平洋出现的，不可思议的大面积氧气损耗
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should concern not only the creatures that are dying,
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不仅仅与那些垂死的生物有关
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but it really should concern you.
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而且也应该让你感到忧虑
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It does concern you, as well.
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是的，这确实会让你感到忧虑
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I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls "tomorrow's child,"
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Ray Anderson所说的“明天的孩子们”常常萦绕于我的头脑中
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asking why we didn't do something on our watch
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他们会问我们为什么袖手旁观
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to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean
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在还来得及的时候，没有去拯救鲨鱼、金枪鱼、乌贼、珊瑚礁
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while there still was time.
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和充满活力的海洋
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Well, now is that time.
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就在此刻
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I hope for your help
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我呼吁你们伸出援手
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to explore and protect the wild ocean
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去探索和保护野生海洋
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in ways that will restore the health and,
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使海洋能重新恢复健康
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in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
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这样做，才能为人类保有希望
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Health to the ocean means health for us.
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海洋的健康意味着我们的健康
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And I hope Jill Tarter's wish to engage Earthlings includes dolphins and whales
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我也希望，Jill Tarter在有关探寻地外智慧生命的的祝愿中
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and other sea creatures
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提到的“地球人”（Earthlings）
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in this quest to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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包括了海豚、鲸鱼以及其他海洋生物
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And I hope, Jill, that someday
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我还希望，Jill，某一天
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we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
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我们会发现，地球的人类中间也是有智慧生命的
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(Laughter)
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（笑）
02:18
Did I say that? I guess I did.
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我说了吗？我猜是的。
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For me, as a scientist,
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从我来说，作为一个科学家
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it all began in 1953
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这一切是在1953年开始的
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when I first tried scuba.
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当我第一次尝试潜水
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It's when I first got to know fish swimming
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我才意识到鱼类
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in something other than lemon slices and butter.
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绝不是在柠檬片和黄油中游泳的
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I actually love diving at night;
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我很喜欢在夜间潜水
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you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.
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你能看到许多在白天看不到的鱼类
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Diving day and night was really easy for me in 1970,
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在1970年，夜以继日地潜水对我来讲十分轻松
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when I led a team of aquanauts living underwater for weeks at a time --
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当时我曾带着一队潜水员一次在水下呆了好几个星期
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at the same time that astronauts were putting their footprints on the moon.
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与此同时，宇航员们正在月球上踩出脚印
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In 1979 I had a chance to put my footprints on the ocean floor
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1979年，我有了将自己脚印印在海底的机会
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while using this personal submersible called Jim.
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当时用的便是这台叫作Jim的潜水器
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It was six miles offshore and 1,250 feet down.
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在离岸六英里（9656米）处，我们下潜到了1250英尺（381米）
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It's one of my favorite bathing suits.
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这是我最喜欢的泳衣之一
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Since then, I've used about 30 kinds of submarines
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从那时到现在，我已使用过差不多30种的潜水器
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and I've started three companies and a nonprofit foundation called Deep Search
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我还开办了三家公司，一家称为Deep Search（深层搜索）的非赢利基金会
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to design and build systems
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致力于设计和制造
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to access the deep sea.
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能到达深海的系统
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I led a five-year National Geographic expedition,
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我曾领导过一次为期五年的国家地理探险
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the Sustainable Seas expeditions,
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即“可持续的海洋”探险活动
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using these little subs.
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用的就是这些小型潜水器
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They're so simple to drive that even a scientist can do it.
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它们如此简便易用，甚至一名科学家都能驾驶
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And I'm living proof.
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我就是活生生的例子
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Astronauts and aquanauts alike
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宇航员和潜水员很相似
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really appreciate the importance of air, food, water, temperature --
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他们真正体会到空气、食物、水、温度等
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all the things you need to stay alive in space or under the sea.
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这一切使你能在太空或海里安然无恙的东西
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I heard astronaut Joe Allen explain
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我听过宇航员Joe Allen解释
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how he had to learn everything he could about his life support system
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他是如何尽可能地学习有关生命维持系统的一切
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and then do everything he could
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然后尽一切努力
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to take care of his life support system;
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来照顾好他的生命维持系统
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and then he pointed to this and he said, "Life support system."
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之后他指着这个（地球）说道：“生命维持系统”
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We need to learn everything we can about it
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我们需要尽己所能地学习有关她的一切
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and do everything we can to take care of it.
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并尽己所能地照顾好她
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The poet Auden said, "Thousands have lived without love;
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诗人Auden说过，“无数人的生活没有爱，
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none without water."
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没有一个人能离开水。“
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Ninety-seven percent of Earth's water is ocean.
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地球上97%的水体是海洋
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No blue, no green.
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没有蓝色，就没有绿色。（无海洋，就无陆地）
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If you think the ocean isn't important,
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如果你认为海洋并不重要
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imagine Earth without it.
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想象一下没有海洋的地球
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Mars comes to mind.
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想到火星了吧
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No ocean, no life support system.
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没有海洋，就没有生命维持系统
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I gave a talk not so long ago at the World Bank
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不久前我在世界银行作了个演讲
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and I showed this amazing image of Earth
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我展示了这张美丽的地球图片
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and I said, "There it is! The World Bank!"
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我说，”它在那呢！世界银行！“
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That's where all the assets are!
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那就是一切财富的所在
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And we've been trawling them down
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而我们正对这些财富大肆掠夺
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much faster than the natural systems can replenish them.
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远远超过自然系统进行补充的速度
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Tim Worth says the economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment.
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Tim Worth说，世界经济只是环境的全资子公司
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With every drop of water you drink,
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你喝的每一滴水
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every breath you take,
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每一次的呼吸
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you're connected to the sea.
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都将你与大海联系起来
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No matter where on Earth you live.
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不管你生活在地球何处
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Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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大气中的氧气绝大多数是由大海产生
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Over time, most of the planet's organic carbon
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长久以来，地球上大部分的有机碳
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has been absorbed and stored there,
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都在海洋中被吸收和储存
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mostly by microbes.
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这一过程主要由微生物完成
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The ocean drives climate and weather,
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海洋驱动着气候和天气变化
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stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry.
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使温度稳定，塑造了地球化学
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Water from the sea forms clouds
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来自海洋的水分形成云
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that return to the land and the seas
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然后落回陆地和海面
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as rain, sleet and snow,
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即雨、冰雹和雪
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and provides home for about 97 percent of life in the world,
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为世界上，或许也是宇宙中
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maybe in the universe.
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大约97%的生命提供了居所
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No water, no life;
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没有水，就没有生命
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no blue, no green.
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没有蓝色，就没有绿色
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Yet we have this idea, we humans,
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然而我们人类有这样一种想法
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that the Earth -- all of it: the oceans, the skies --
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认为地球，包括海洋、天空等全部
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are so vast and so resilient
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是如此广阔，恢复力如此之强
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it doesn't matter what we do to it.
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以至于我们对其做什么都没关系
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That may have been true 10,000 years ago,
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这在一万年前或许没错
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and maybe even 1,000 years ago
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甚至一千年前也没错
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but in the last 100, especially in the last 50,
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但到了最近100年，特别是近50年
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we've drawn down the assets,
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我们已经耗费了太多的财富
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the air, the water, the wildlife
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空气、水、野生动物
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that make our lives possible.
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来支持我们的生活
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New technologies are helping us to understand
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新的技术正帮助我们理解
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the nature of nature;
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自然的本质
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the nature of what's happening,
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正在进行的一切的本质
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showing us our impact on the Earth.
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显示了我们对地球的影响
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I mean, first you have to know that you've got a problem.
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我是说，首先你要意识到问题已经发生
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And fortunately, in our time,
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而且，幸运的是，在我们的时代
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we've learned more about the problems than in all preceding history.
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我们对问题的了解已经比之前所有的历史时期都来得多
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And with knowing comes caring.
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有了了解，便有了保护
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And with caring, there's hope
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有了保护，就有了希望
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that we can find an enduring place for ourselves
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那就是我们能够在支持我们的自然系统中
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within the natural systems that support us.
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找到一个使自己持久生活的地方
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But first we have to know.
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但首先我们必须去了解
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Three years ago, I met John Hanke,
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三年前，我遇到John Hanke
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who's the head of Google Earth,
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Google Earth的领导者
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and I told him how much I loved being able to hold the world in my hands
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我告诉他，我是多么喜欢能够将世界捧在手里的感觉
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and go exploring vicariously.
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并间接地进行探索
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But I asked him: "When are you going to finish it?
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我问他：”你准备什么时候把它完成？
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You did a great job with the land, the dirt.
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你把陆地，泥土部分做的很好
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What about the water?"
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但是水呢？“
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Since then, I've had the great pleasure of working with the Googlers,
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自那之后，我便非常高兴地开始与Google，
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with DOER Marine, with National Geographic,
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与DOER Marine，与国家地理
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with dozens of the best institutions and scientists around the world,
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与我们能招募来的全世界数十个最好的研究所和科学家们
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ones that we could enlist,
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一起努力
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to put the ocean in Google Earth.
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将海洋放到Google Earth里面
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And as of just this week, last Monday,
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而到了这个星期，上周一
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Google Earth is now whole.
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Google Earth终于完整了
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Consider this: Starting right here at the convention center,
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看清楚了：从这里的会议中心开始
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we can find the nearby aquarium,
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我们能找到附近的水族馆
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we can look at where we're sitting,
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我们能看到我们所在的地方
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and then we can cruise up the coast to the big aquarium, the ocean,
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然后我们越过海岸线，来到这个大水族馆，海洋
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and California's four national marine sanctuaries,
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还有加利福尼亚州的四个国家海洋保护区
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and the new network of state marine reserves
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以及新建的州立海洋保护区网络
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that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets
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这些都是保护和恢复部分自然财富的开始
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We can flit over to Hawaii
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我们能轻快地掠过夏威夷
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and see the real Hawaiian Islands:
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看到真正的夏威夷群岛
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not just the little bit that pokes through the surface,
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不仅仅是表面的那一小部分
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but also what's below.
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更能看到海面以下
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To see -- wait a minute, we can go kshhplash! --
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让我们来看——等一会，我们能向下
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right there, ha --
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到这里了，哈
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under the ocean, see what the whales see.
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在海水里，看到鲸鱼所看到的景象
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We can go explore the other side of the Hawaiian Islands.
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我们能到夏威夷群岛的另一边去探索
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We can go actually and swim around on Google Earth
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我们甚至可以在Google Earth里四处畅游
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and visit with humpback whales.
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与座头鲸一起在海里徜徉
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These are the gentle giants that I've had the pleasure of meeting face to face
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这些是温和的巨兽，我很高兴曾在海里
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many times underwater.
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多次地与他们面对面相遇
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There's nothing quite like being personally inspected by a whale.
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没有什么比单独被一头鲸鱼仔细审视的感觉更好的了
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We can pick up and fly to the deepest place:
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我们能加快速度向更深的地方去：
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seven miles down, the Mariana Trench,
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来到七英里以下的马里亚纳海沟
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where only two people have ever been.
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只有两个人曾到过那里
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Imagine that. It's only seven miles,
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想想看，只有区区7英里
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but only two people have been there, 49 years ago.
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但只有两个人到过那，还是49年前
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One-way trips are easy.
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单程旅行总是比较容易
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We need new deep-diving submarines.
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我们需要新的深海潜水器
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How about some X Prizes for ocean exploration?
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为海洋探险设立个大奖怎么样？
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We need to see deep trenches, the undersea mountains,
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我们需要去看看深海海沟，海底山脉
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and understand life in the deep sea.
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了解深海里的生命
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We can now go to the Arctic.
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现在我们可以去到北极
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Just ten years ago I stood on the ice at the North Pole.
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十年前我就曾站在北极点的冰面上
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An ice-free Arctic Ocean may happen in this century.
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一个没有冰的北冰洋或许就将在本世纪出现
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That's bad news for the polar bears.
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北极熊的噩耗
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That's bad news for us too.
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同时也是我们的噩耗
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Excess carbon dioxide is not only driving global warming,
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过量的二氧化碳不仅仅导致全球变暖
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it's also changing ocean chemistry,
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making the sea more acidic.
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使大海变得更酸
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That's bad news for coral reefs and oxygen-producing plankton.
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这对珊瑚礁和产氧的浮游植物来说是个坏消息
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Also it's bad news for us.
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对我们也是坏消息
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We're putting hundreds of millions of tons of plastic
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我们正将亿万吨的塑料
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and other trash into the sea.
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和垃圾排放到海洋里
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Millions of tons of discarded fishing nets,
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数百万吨丢弃的鱼网，
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gear that continues to kill.
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和鱼钩仍然在导致（海洋生物）死亡
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We're clogging the ocean, poisoning the planet's circulatory system,
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我们正在使海洋堵塞，毒害着地球的循环系统
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and we're taking out hundreds of millions of tons of wildlife,
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我们正使无数的野生动物消失殆尽
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all carbon-based units.
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（它们）都是碳元素为基础的单元
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Barbarically, we're killing sharks for shark fin soup,
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我们野蛮地杀死鲨鱼，只为了鱼翅汤
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undermining food chains that shape planetary chemistry
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（我们）破坏食物链，而正是食物链塑造了地球化学
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and drive the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle,
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驱动了碳循环、氮循环、
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the oxygen cycle, the water cycle --
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氧循环和水循环
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our life support system.
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我们的生命维持系统
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We're still killing bluefin tuna; truly endangered
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我们还在捕杀事实上已经濒临灭绝的蓝鳍金枪鱼
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and much more valuable alive than dead.
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它们活着时的价值远高于死去时
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All of these parts are part of our life support system.
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所有这些片段只展现出我们生命维持系统的一部分
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We kill using long lines, with baited hooks every few feet
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我们用长线捕鱼，线上每隔数英尺就有带饵的鱼钩
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that may stretch for 50 miles or more.
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钓线的长度可达50英里甚至更长
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Industrial trawlers and draggers are scraping the sea floor
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商业以及小型拖网渔船正刮蚀着海底
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like bulldozers, taking everything in their path.
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就像推土机一样，将所经之处的一切带走
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Using Google Earth you can witness trawlers --
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利用Google Earth，你可以目睹拖网渔船的所作所为
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in China, the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico --
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在中国，在北海，和墨西哥湾
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shaking the foundation of our life support system,
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（拖网渔船）正动摇着我们的生命维持系统
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leaving plumes of death in their path.
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在其所经之处留下无数尸体
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The next time you dine on sushi -- or sashimi,
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下一次当你品尝寿司，或生鱼片
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or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail,
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或旗鱼排，或鸡尾虾
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whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean --
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或任一种你碰巧品尝到的海洋野生动物时
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think of the real cost.
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想一下其真正的代价
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For every pound that goes to market,
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每一磅渔获流向市场
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more than 10 pounds, even 100 pounds,
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就有超过10磅，甚至100磅
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may be thrown away as bycatch.
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的兼捕渔获被扔掉
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This is the consequence of not knowing
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这种情况发生的原因便是
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that there are limits to what we can take out of the sea.
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我们不知道向大海的索取是有限制的
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This chart shows the decline in ocean wildlife
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这张表显示了海洋野生动物的衰退
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from 1900 to 2000.
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从1900年到2000年
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The highest concentrations are in red.
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红色表示的是密度最高的地区
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In my lifetime, imagine,
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在我的人生中，想一下
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90 percent of the big fish have been killed.
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90%的大型鱼类遭到捕杀
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Most of the turtles, sharks, tunas and whales
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大部分的海龟、鲨鱼、金枪鱼和鲸鱼
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are way down in numbers.
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数量不断下降
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But, there is good news.
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然而，还是有好消息的
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain.
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10%的大型鱼类仍然健在
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There are still some blue whales.
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有些蓝鲸还幸存着
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There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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南极也还有部分磷虾
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There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay.
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切萨皮克湾还长着少量牡蛎
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Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape,
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一半的珊瑚礁情况也还不错
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a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet.
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它们就像环绕地球中部的珠宝带
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There's still time, but not a lot,
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to turn things around.
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来使事情好转
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But business as usual means that in 50 years,
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但如果一切继续下去，意味着50年内
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there may be no coral reefs --
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珊瑚礁有可能消失
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and no commercial fishing, because the fish will simply be gone.
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也不再有渔业，因为鱼类已经被捕完了
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Imagine the ocean without fish.
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想象一下没有鱼类的海洋
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Imagine what that means to our life support system.
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想象一下这对于我们的生命维持系统意味着什么
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Natural systems on the land are in big trouble too,
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陆地的自然系统也存在很严重的问题
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but the problems are more obvious,
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但那些问题更加明显
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and some actions are being taken to protect trees, watersheds and wildlife.
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若干措施也正用于保护树木、集水区和野生动物
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And in 1872, with Yellowstone National Park,
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在1872年，以黄石国家公园为代表
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the United States began establishing a system of parks
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美国开始建立起一个公园系统
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that some say was the best idea America ever had.
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某种角度上，这是美国所采取的最好的一个措施
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About 12 percent of the land around the world is now protected:
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现在，世界上大约12%的陆地都受到了保护
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safeguarding biodiversity, providing a carbon sink,
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保护着生物多样性，提供碳汇
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generating oxygen, protecting watersheds.
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生产出氧气，保护着集水区
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And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea,
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而到了1972年，美国开始对应地建立起一个海洋保护区
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National Marine Sanctuaries.
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国家海洋保护区
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That's another great idea.
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这是另一个伟大的措施
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The good news is
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好消息是
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that there are now more than 4,000 places in the sea, around the world,
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现在世界海洋中有超过4000个地方
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that have some kind of protection.
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已经在某种程度上得到了保护
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And you can find them on Google Earth.
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你们可以在Google Earth上找到这些地方
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The bad news is
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坏消息是
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that you have to look hard to find them.
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你需要很仔细才能把它们找出来
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In the last three years, for example,
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the U.S. protected 340,000 square miles of ocean as national monuments.
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美国像对国家历史文物一样保护了34万平方英里的海洋
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But it only increased from 0.6 of one percent
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但在全球仅1%的受保护海洋面积中
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to 0.8 of one percent of the ocean protected, globally.
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这仅仅使（美国保护的面积）从其中的六成增加到八成
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Protected areas do rebound,
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保护起来的区域的确会反弹
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but it takes a long time to restore
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但这需要长期的恢复
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50-year-old rockfish or monkfish, sharks or sea bass,
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50岁的岩鱼或安康鱼，鲨鱼或鲈鱼
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or 200-year-old orange roughy.
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或者200岁的新西兰红鱼
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We don't consume 200-year-old cows or chickens.
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我们不会吃200岁的牛或鸡
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Protected areas provide hope
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受保护地提供了希望
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that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream
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希望Ed Wilson梦想中的那些生物
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of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life,
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无论是来自生物百科全书，或是来自海洋生物普查
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will live not just as a list,
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都不仅仅是作为一个名单，
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a photograph, or a paragraph.
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一张图片，或一条新闻报道而存在
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With scientists around the world, I've been looking at the 99 percent of the ocean
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与全世界的科学家一道，我一直在关注着那99%的海洋
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that is open to fishing -- and mining, and drilling, and dumping, and whatever --
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那里对捕鱼、开采、钻探和倾倒及其他活动都是开放的
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to search out hope spots,
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（我们）试图从中找到希望所在
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and try to find ways to give them and us a secure future.
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并想办法为它们和我们提供一个安全的未来
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Such as the Arctic --
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好比在北极
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we have one chance, right now, to get it right.
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我们有机会，现在，来让情况好转
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Or the Antarctic, where the continent is protected,
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或者是在南极，那里的大陆受到了保护
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but the surrounding ocean is being stripped of its krill, whales and fish.
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但环绕大陆的海洋里那些磷虾、鲸鱼和鱼类正在被过度捕捞
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Sargasso Sea's three million square miles of floating forest
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马尾藻海那三百万平方英里的漂浮森林
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is being gathered up to feed cows.
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正在被采集用来养牛
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97 percent of the land in the Galapagos Islands is protected,
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加拉帕戈斯群岛中97%的陆地受到了保护
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but the adjacent sea is being ravaged by fishing.
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但其周围的海洋正因为捕鱼而备受摧残
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It's true too in Argentina
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在阿根廷也是如此
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on the Patagonian shelf, which is now in serious trouble.
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巴塔哥尼亚大陆架，现在危机深重
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The high seas, where whales, tuna and dolphins travel --
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在远海，鲸鱼、金枪鱼和海豚遨游的地方
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the largest, least protected, ecosystem on Earth,
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也是地球上最大，却受到最少保护的生态系统
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filled with luminous creatures,
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平均两英里的黑暗海水里
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living in dark waters that average two miles deep.
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住满了发光的生物
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They flash, and sparkle, and glow
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它们充满活力，闪耀着光辉
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with their own living light.
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用的是自己的生物发光机制
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There are still places in the sea as pristine as I knew as a child.
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海洋中还有一些我自小就知道的，还是原始未受侵蚀的地方
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The next 10 years may be the most important,
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接下来的十年或许是最重要的
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and the next 10,000 years the best chance our species will have
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而接下来的一万年，将是我们人类最好的机会
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to protect what remains of the natural systems that give us life.
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去保护自然系统中存留的，让我们能生存下来的那些东西
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To cope with climate change, we need new ways to generate power.
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为应对气候变化，我们需要新的能源产生方式
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We need new ways, better ways, to cope with poverty, wars and disease.
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我们需要新的方法，更好的方法，来应对贫穷、战争和疾病
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We need many things to keep and maintain the world as a better place.
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我们还有许多事情要做，来保持和使世界成为一个更美好的地方
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But, nothing else will matter
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但是，如果我们不能够保护好海洋
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if we fail to protect the ocean.
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这一切就都毫无意义
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Our fate and the ocean's are one.
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我们的命运与海洋密不可分
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We need to do for the ocean what Al Gore did for the skies above.
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我们需要为海洋做点什么，就像AI Gore为上面的天空所做的
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A global plan of action
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一个全球行动计划
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with a world conservation union, the IUCN,
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与一个世界自然保护联盟，IUCN
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is underway to protect biodiversity,
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正在做的就是保护生物多样性
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to mitigate and recover from the impacts of climate change,
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使地球从气候变化的影响中缓解和恢复过来
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on the high seas and in coastal areas,
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在远洋和海岸地带
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wherever we can identify critical places.
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在我们能够认定为关键地区的任何地方
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New technologies are needed to map, photograph and explore
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需要新的技术来进行地图定位、拍摄和探索
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the 95 percent of the ocean that we have yet to see.
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对尚不了解的95%的海洋进行观察
16:28
The goal is to protect biodiversity,
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目标就是保护生物多样性
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to provide stability and resilience.
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提供稳定和恢复的能力
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We need deep-diving subs,
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我们需要深海潜水器
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new technologies to explore the ocean.
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以及探索海洋的新技术
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We need, maybe, an expedition --
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我们需要，或许，一次探险
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a TED at sea --
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一次海洋的TED
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that could help figure out the next steps.
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来帮助找出接下来的路要怎么走
16:46
And so, I suppose you want to know what my wish is.
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那么，我猜你们应该很想知道我的祝愿是什么
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I wish you would use all means at your disposal --
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我希望你们运用自己所能运用的所有方式——
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films, expeditions, the web, new submarines --
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电影、探险、网络、新的潜水器等等——
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and campaign to ignite public support
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来点燃公众积极参与的热情
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for a global network of marine protected areas --
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从而使海洋受保护地区和希望所在连成一个全球网络
17:04
hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean,
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并使之足够巨大，以拯救和恢复海洋
17:08
the blue heart of the planet.
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地球的蓝色心脏
17:11
How much?
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要（保护）多少？
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Some say 10 percent, some say 30 percent.
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有人说10%，有人说30%
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You decide: how much of your heart do you want to protect?
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你自己决定想要保护多少（的海洋）
17:21
Whatever it is,
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无论如何
17:23
a fraction of one percent is not enough.
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一个百分点中的一小部分是不够的
17:27
My wish is a big wish,
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我的祝愿很宏大
17:29
but if we can make it happen, it can truly change the world,
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但如果我们能使之实现，世界将为之改变
17:33
and help ensure the survival
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并且可以帮助确保
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of what actually -- as it turns out -- is my favorite species;
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我最喜欢的物种——归根到底，也就是我们自己
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that would be us.
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能够生存下来
17:44
For the children of today,
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为了今天的儿童
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for tomorrow's child:
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为了明天的儿童
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as never again, now is the time.
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我们不能重蹈覆辙，现在正是时候
17:53
Thank you.
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谢谢
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(Applause)
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（掌声）
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sylvia Earle - OceanographerSylvia Earle has been at the forefront of ocean exploration for more than four decades. The winner of the 2009 TED Prize, she's a tireless advocate for our oceans.
Why you should listen
Sylvia Earle, called "Her Deepness" by the New Yorker, "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress and a "Hero for the Planet" by Time, is an oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer with a deep commitment to research through personal exploration.
Earle has led more than 50 expeditions and clocked more than 7,000 hours underwater. As captain of the first all-female team to live underwater in 1970, she and her fellow scientists received a ticker-tape parade and White House reception upon their return to the surface. In 1979, she walked untethered on the sea floor at a lower depth than any other woman before or since. In the 1980s, she started the companies Deep Ocean Engineering and Deep Ocean Technologies with engineer Graham Hawkes to design undersea vehicles that allow scientists to work at previously inaccessible depths. In the early 1990s, she served as Chief Scientist of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Earle speaks of our oceans with wonder and amazement, and calls them “the blue heart of the planet.” The winner of the 2009 TED Prize, she wished to ignite public support for marine protected areas, so that they cover 20% of the world's oceans by 2020.
Sylvia Earle | Speaker | TED.com