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比尔斯通是一位非比寻常的探险家，他曾探究过地球最深的深渊。他要讨论他为寻找太空飞行新能源而开采月球冰层的努力，并想要开发一个自动机器人以研究木卫二号行星。
n. 紧张，压力
v. 强调，着重
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- First place I'd like to take you is what many believe will be the world's deepest natural abyss.
- 我要带大家去的第一个地方是一个天然的深渊，许多人相信它将会被证明为世界最深之渊。
- And I say believe because this process is still ongoing.
- 我说相信是因为这个探索过程还未结束。
- Right now there are major expeditions being planned for next year that I'll talk a little bit about.
- 明年有几个很大的探险活动正在策划中，关于这个我会做些介绍
- One of the things that's changed here,
- 现在,变化之一是，
- in the last 150 years since Jules Verne had great science-fiction concepts of what the underworld was like,
- 自从儒勒凡尔纳在科幻小说里描绘了地底世界的样子后,
- is that technology has enabled us to go to these places that were previously completely unknown and speculated about.
- 在过去的150年里，科技已使我们能够到达一些地方，这些地方是我们先前完全不知且不能想象的。
- We can now descend thousands of meters into the Earth with relative impunity.
- 而我们现在能相对安全得深入地球几千米。
- Along the way we've discovered fantastic abysses and chambers so large
- 沿途我们发现了奇异的深渊和岩洞。
- that you can see for hundreds of meters without a break in the line of sight.
- 那些岩洞大得异乎寻常，一眼望去能看到几百米。
- When you go on a thing like this, we can usually be in the field for anywhere from two to four months,
- 当我们到了这样的岩洞时，我们经常会在那待二至四个月，
- with a team as small as 20 or 30, to as big as 150.
- 我们的队伍规模小时二三十人，大时有一百五十人。
- And a lot of people ask me, you know,
- 许多人问我，
- what kind of people do you get for a project like this?
- 你们选什么样的人参加这样的项目？
- While our selection process is not as rigorous as NASA, it's nonetheless thorough.
- 我们的筛选过程不是像NASA(美国航空航天局)那么严格，但它又是周详的。
- We're looking for competence, discipline, endurance, and strength.
- 我们寻找的是有能力胜任此工作，能严格约束自己，耐力长久而且体力充沛的人。
- In case you're wondering, this is our strength test.
- 如果你想知道的话，这是我们的体能测试。
- But we also value esprit de corps and the ability to diplomatically resolve inter-personal conflict while under great stress in remote locations.
- 但我们也重视团队精神和善于解决人际矛盾的能力。这些能力，在人们身处僻壤。
- We have already gone far beyond the limits of human endurance.
- 压力巨大到远远超过人类耐力极限的时候尤其重要。
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