纪录片《南太平洋》 第30期 大洋小岛（30）

Bali lined up for his first shot... capturing the action at 20 times slowerthan normal speed.

巴利就位准备第一次拍摄，拍下比正常速度慢20倍的画面

An interesting shot, but not what the team were after.

这是一次有趣的拍摄，但不是摄制组想要的

So why were there no big waves?

为什么那里没有大浪呢?

There's no land between here and Kamchatka, 3,000 miles away.

从这到堪察加半岛之间的3000英里没有陆地

And the waves that arrive here start off around Japan or the east coast of Russia.

海浪要到达这里，先从日本或俄国东岸附近出发

And when a storm hits these places, it whips up the sea, generating swell¹.

当风暴袭击这些地方时，激发海洋产生汹涌大浪

It's rather like throwing a pebble² into a pool.

就像把一颗卵石投入水池

The ripples³ radiate outwards⁴ which, when they reach land, make waves.

涟漪向外扩散，到达陆地时产生海浪

So if the size of these waves was anything to go by,

如果这些浪还是这么小的话

Japan and Russia were having some unusually mild winter weather.

只能说日本和俄国冬天的天气异常温和

And that was more than you could say for Pohnpei. And there were still no big waves.

跟波恩佩无关。还是没有大浪

The only good news was that the housing was still working

唯一的好消息是密封摄影机还工作正常

and remained watertight, despite being soundly tested both below and above the water.

水密性也好，经得起水上和水下的全面测试

Then, when the team thoughtthings couldn't get any worse...

当摄制组觉得事情糟透了的时候

If conditions got any calmer here, we'd probably have small boys out sailing their toy boats out on this millpond!

如果这里再这么平静，可能会有小孩子在这水池玩玩具船了!

I mean, we came for 12-foot barrelling waves and we've got a sort of gentle riffle at the moment.

我的意思是，我们为12英尺高的卷浪而来，得到的却是温和的水流

1 swell   

vi.膨胀，肿胀；增长，增强

参考例句：

• The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
• His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。

2 pebble   

n.卵石，小圆石

参考例句：

• The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.这只鸟错把卵石当蛋，想去孵它。
• The pebble made a ripple on the surface of the lake.石子在湖面上激起一个涟漪。

3 ripples   

逐渐扩散的感觉( ripple的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The moon danced on the ripples. 月亮在涟漪上舞动。
• The sea leaves ripples on the sand. 海水在沙滩上留下了波痕。

4 outwards   

adj.外面的，公开的，向外的；adv.向外；n.外形

参考例句：

• Does this door open inwards or outwards?这门朝里开还是朝外开？
• In lapping up a fur,they always put the inner side outwards.卷毛皮时，他们总是让内层朝外。