火山列岛 10-英语听力

[00:00.54]Measured from the sea floor,
从海底开始测量 [00:02.37]The wekiu's home is the tallest mountain in the world,
万寇虫的家是世界上最高的山 [00:06.52]about a kilometre taller than Everest
比珠穆朗玛峰还要高约一千米 [00:09.78]But it won't hold this record forever
但是它不会永远保持这个记录 [00:12.32]After millions of years of growth,
在长达几百万年的生长后 [00:14.86]This mountain is slowly but surely losing height
这座山正在慢慢地变矮 [00:18.44]At a rate of 20 centimetres every 100 years
以一百年20厘米的速度 [00:22.75]In fact, it's so massive that it's buckling the sea floor beneath it
事实上，它巨大到把底下的海床压弯了 [00:26.15]And sinking into the ocean
然后大部分沉到了海底 [00:29.61]Mauna Kea's future can be glimpsed in the Society Islands of French Polynesia
莫纳克亚山的未来可预见于 法属波利尼西亚的社会群岛 [00:36.14]The peaks of these islands once rose much higher than this from the ocean floor
这些山的顶峰从海底起 曾经上升得更高 [00:42.5]It's been almost 2 million years since their volcanoes first broke through the ocean
大概有两百万年，自从这些火山从大海里爆发而出 [00:47.53]But erosion is washing away their volcanic cores
但是侵蚀作用正在冲掉火山的核心 [00:52.26]Now the only growth occurs just below sea level,
如今 唯一的生长现象只出现于海平面以下 [00:55.85]On what was once the mountain's sloping flanks
在山曾经的倾斜侧翼上 [00:59.97]In the shallow waters around an island's base,
在岛屿周围的浅水区里 [01:02.85]Coral reefs rise towards the surface
珊瑚礁从表层生长