​视频 | Nature Is Speaking系列选（3-4）,学习英语好资源

3 The Rainforest 雨林

Now, why would they need an old forest like me anymore?

现在，他们还需要我这片古老的森林做什么呢？

Jungles? Trees? Well, they do breathe air.

需要我的丛林还是树木？对了，他们总得呼吸吧。

And I make air.

而我制造了氧气。

Have they thought about that?

他们意识到这件事了吗？

Humans, so smart. They'll figure it out.

人类，这么聪明。他们会想出办法的。

Humans making air. That'll be fun to watch.

人类制造氧气。那可太有意思了。 

4 The Soil 土地

I am the soil.

我是土地。

I am in the hills, and in the valleys, the farms, the orchards.

我存在于高山上，山谷中，农场里，果园间。

Without me humans could not exist. But you treat me like dirt.

没有我，人类无法生存。但你们却把我看得一文不值。

Do you realize that I am just a thin skin on this planet?

你们意识到了吗，我只是这个地球薄薄的一层皮肤？

And that I'm actually alive.

我也是有生命的。

Full of organisms that grow your food.

充满了让你们的食物得以生长的有机物。

But I am broken, aching, overused, sick.

但是我被你们破坏、伤害、过度开发、损害。

Because of you. You have withered me away to less than half of what I used to be just over100 years ago.

就是因为你们。你们让我萎缩，现在我只剩下不及100年前一半的厚度。

Are you paying attention? I am turning to dust.

你们注意到了吗？我正在逐渐化为一片荒漠。

So maybe you could treat me with a little more respect.

所以也许你们能对我多一些尊重。

I suppose you still want to eat, right?

我想你们不想饿肚子，对吧？