程度副詞

We're looking for a piece of ice, it'll be long enough, we'll see what we can do.

我們正在找一塊冰，它足夠長，我們看看能做些什麼。

Yeah, we'll probably land within at least, probably right at the pole.

是的，我們可能至少會在極點附近著陸。

The first problem is where to plant your pole.

第一個問題是在哪裡插電線杆。

The North Pole is on a constantly moving sea of ice, so where the pole is now may not be where the pole is in an hour's time.

北極位於不斷移動的冰海上，是以現在的北極點可能不是一小時後的北極點。

That's why, as the Americans might say, once you've got it, flaunt it.

這就是為什麼美國人會說，一旦你得到了，就要炫耀它。

I'm standing on the top of the world, at the North Pole, where the time is, well, the time's anything you want it to be up here.

我正站在世界之巔的北極，這裡的時間是，嗯，你想讓它是什麼時間，它就是什麼時間。

The temperature's about minus 25 degrees centigrade, so there's no point in hanging around.

氣溫約為零下 25 攝氏度，沒必要在這裡逗留。

What I'm going to do is make a journey from here to the South Pole, which is in every direction.

我要做的是從這裡到南極的旅行，南極在每個方向都有。

If I went that way, I'd go down through Japan.

如果我走這條路，我會從日本下去。

If I went that way, I'd go down through India.

如果我走這條路，我會從印度下去。

But we've chosen a route that way, 30 degrees east, line of longitude, down through Russia and Africa.

但我們選擇的路線是東經 30 度，穿過俄羅斯和非洲。

It's going to be a hell of a long journey, but, well, let's go.

這將是一段漫長的旅程，但是，好吧，我們走吧。

I hadn't expected things to be such a rush.

The pilot won't risk turning his engines off in the bitter cold.

飛行員不會冒險在嚴寒中關閉引擎。

Though I'd quite like to sit and write a few postcards, he wants to be off while we still have enough fuel left.

雖然我很想坐下來寫幾張明信片，但他想在我們還有足夠燃料的時候出發。

And you don't argue with the pilot. Not at the North Pole.

你不能和飛行員爭論。在北極可不行

The plane we're in was designed in the 1950s.

我們乘坐的飛機是上世紀 50 年代設計的。

There are no airstrips, no control towers, no emergency vehicles below us.

我們下面沒有簡易機場，沒有控制塔，也沒有應急車輛。

There is rapidly changing weather, intense cold and hundreds of miles of frozen ocean.

這裡有瞬息萬變的天氣、嚴寒和數百英里的冰凍海洋。

We've chosen the 30-degree east line of longitude simply because it covers the most land, running through Scandinavia and the great cities of St Petersburg,

我們選擇東經 30 度線的原因很簡單，因為它覆蓋的土地最多，穿過斯堪的納維亞半島和聖彼得堡等大城市、

We'll be travelling down the River Nile, across the desert to Khartoum and on to Lake Tanganyika and Cape Town, from one extreme of the earth to the other.

我們將沿尼羅河而下，穿越沙漠到達喀土穆，然後前往坦噶尼喀湖和開普敦，從地球的一端到達另一端。

Even if everything works, we have almost half a year's travelling ahead of us.

即使一切順利，我們也還有近半年的旅程要走。

After 13 hours flying over the Arctic Ocean, the sight of the tiny settlement of Nielsen on the island of Spitsbergen is an indescribable relief.

在北冰洋上空飛行 13 個小時後，看到斯匹次卑爾根島上的尼爾森小定居點，我的心情難以言表。

Many Arctic expeditions began here and some, including Amundsen's last flight, never returned.

許多北極探險隊從這裡出發，其中一些探險隊，包括阿蒙森的最後一次飛行，再也沒有回來。

We ourselves touch down with only minutes' worth of fuel left.

我們自己著陸時只剩下幾分鐘的燃料。

We may not quite have run out of fuel, but we have run out of good weather.

我們可能還沒有耗盡燃料，但我們已經沒有好天氣了。

There's nothing to do but wait, and waiting, they tell me, is what the Arctic is all about.

他們告訴我，等待就是北極的全部。

It's two days before the blizzards let up.

We've made it an unwritten rule of the journey not to use air transport where there's any possible alternative, and the only alternative out of Nielsen is by the modern equivalent of dogs and sledges, snowmobiles and sledges.

我們已經制定了一條不成文的旅行規則，只要有可能，就不使用航空運輸，而離開尼爾森的唯一選擇就相當於現代的狗和雪橇、雪地摩托和雪橇。

It's an unusual journey, and, as one of our Norwegian guides explains, it's a journey that's not just about the weather,

這是一次不同尋常的旅程，正如我們的一位挪威導遊所解釋的那樣，這是一次與天氣無關的旅程、

It's an unusual journey, and, as one of our Norwegian guides explains, it demands unusual precautions.

這是一次不同尋常的旅程，正如我們的一位挪威導遊所解釋的那樣，需要採取不同尋常的預防措施。

We have to carry guns just in case polar bears are too hungry to leave us alone.

我們必須攜帶槍支，以防北極熊餓得受不了，不放過我們。

How many polar bears are there on these islands?

If we don't get to a hut or to safety of any kind and we have to stop on the glacier, do you have emergency rations and tents and things?

如果我們沒有到達小屋或任何安全的地方，不得不停在冰川上，你們有應急口糧和帳篷之類的東西嗎？

Yes, nothing elaborate, but just enough to keep us alive for two or three days.

是的，沒有什麼講究，但足以讓我們活上兩三天。

We shall all have to master the art of snowmobile driving, even me.

我們都必須掌握駕駛雪地車的技巧，包括我在內。

The Arctic is littered with weather stations which can tell you how big the ozone hole will be in five years, but strangely little about what's going to happen in the next five hours.

北極地區到處都是氣象站，它們可以告訴你五年後臭氧洞會有多大，但奇怪的是，它們卻很少告訴你未來五小時內會發生什麼。

At the first pass, the snow sweeps in again, and suddenly you can't see a thing.

在第一個山口，大雪再次席捲而來，你突然什麼都看不見了。

The boys' own fun of snowmobile driving becomes something much more serious.

男孩們駕駛雪地摩托的樂趣變得更加嚴肅。

Mind you, there are times when I'd almost prefer not to see where I'm going.

不過，有時候我幾乎寧願看不到我要去的地方。

Conditions change so quickly that it's absolutely essential never to lose sight of the vehicle in front.

路況瞬息萬變，絕對不能失去前車的視線。

Sometimes, I admit, my concentration wavers.

我承認，有時我的注意力會不集中。

We drive on through the night, though at this time of year the sun never sets.

我們連夜趕路，儘管在這個季節，太陽永遠不會落山。

It's still there at three in the morning, and at last we glimpse the first sign of human habitation since leaving Nielsen.

凌晨三點，它還在那裡，我們終於看到了離開尼爾森後人類居住的第一個跡象。

It's a trapper's hut, standing on the shores of a frozen fjord.

這是一座捕獵者的小屋，矗立在冰封的峽灣岸邊。

A rack full of dead seals, meat for the trapper's dogs.

裝滿死海豹的架子，是捕獵者的狗的肉。

It is, thanks to the owner's generosity, our hotel for the night.

感謝店主的慷慨，我們今晚就住在這裡。

Our host, Harald Solheim, looks more like a rabbi than a trapper, and he's lived here on his own for 15 years.

我們的主人哈拉爾德-索爾海姆（Harald Solheim）看起來更像拉比而不是捕獵者，他獨自一人在這裡生活了 15 年。

It's a very lonely life here, Harald, isn't it?

這裡的生活很孤獨，哈拉爾德，不是嗎？

In the beginning, it was some sort of adventure about the whole thing, but it's not that anymore.

剛開始的時候，整件事情還有些冒險的意味，但現在已經不是這樣了。

The idea of a trapper now is very unfashionable.

現在，捕獵者的想法已經非常不合時宜了。

Environmentally, the idea of people hunting and killing animals is now much criticised.

在環保方面，人們狩獵和捕殺動物的想法現在備受責備。

It's OK if they are vegetarians, then they could blame the hunters.

如果他們是素食主義者也沒關係，那樣他們就可以指責獵人了。

That I could understand, but people that are going into shops and buying meat...

這我可以理解，但去商店買肉的人......

As far as I know, every meat comes from living animals, and you have to kill them before you eat them.

據我所知，所有肉類都來自活生生的動物，吃之前必須先殺死它們。

If you were a vegetarian, how would you survive here?

如果你是一個素食主義者，你將如何在這裡生存？

You seem to have most comforts here, but is there anything, any one thing that you miss?

你在這裡似乎擁有了大多數舒適的生活，但有沒有什麼東西是你所懷念的？

Sometimes one could miss different things, and especially it could be pleasant to have some women companions sometimes.

有時，人們會懷念不同的事物，尤其是有時有一些女伴會讓人感到愉快。

You are an ordinary man and you feel some needs, no and none, but I think I would prefer to stay alone.

你是一個普通人，你有一些需求，不，也沒有，但我想我寧願一個人待著。

As our revving engines rudely shatter the tranquillity of an arctic morning,

發動機的轟鳴聲打破了北極早晨的寧靜、

We wave our goodbyes and hurtle on our way south to goodness knows what problems and crises, leaving Harold Solheim's remote kingdom surrounded once again by the certainty and comfort of silence.

我們揮手告別，匆匆南下，去解決天知道會發生什麼問題和危機，離開了哈羅德-索爾海姆的遙遠王國，再次被寂靜的確定性和舒適感所包圍。

Three quarters of Spitsbergen is permanently covered with ice.

斯匹次卑爾根島四分之三的面積長期被冰雪覆蓋。

The port of Longyearbyen, which we reach after two days travelling, is still 600 miles from mainland Europe.

經過兩天的長途跋涉，我們到達了朗伊爾城港口，但這裡距離歐洲大陸還有 600 英里。

這裡一年中的大部分時間都是冰天雪地。

Even now, in early summer, there's only one ship strong enough to take us safely through the ice, the MV Norsal.

即使是現在，在初夏，也只有一艘足夠堅固的船--"諾薩爾 "號輪船（MV Norsal）能帶我們安全穿越冰層。

She may not look the part of an arctic rambo, but she knows these waters well.

也許她看起來不像北極狂人，但她非常熟悉這片水域。

She's been a scallop fisher and a seal catcher, and now, as a supply vessel, she's become an arctic lifeline.

它捕過扇貝，捕過海豹，現在，作為一艘補給船，它已成為北極的生命線。

Progress through the ice is painfully slow, and looking at the inflatable globe, which has already been round the world with me,

穿過冰層的速度慢得讓人心疼，看著已經和我一起環遊世界的充氣地球儀，我不禁感慨萬千、

I can see we're hardly clear of the bit where you blow it up.

我看得出，我們幾乎還沒搞清楚你要炸掉它的那部分。

There isn't much to do on the Norsal, except walking and skating, which is a bit of leisure nevertheless.

諾薩爾河上可做的事情並不多，除了散步和滑冰，不過這也算是一種休閒方式。

The Norsal is a very quiet coastal island, rather concluding in the tides.

諾薩爾島是一個非常安靜的沿海島嶼，在潮汐中頗為平靜。

Accommodating a sizeable population, there isn't much to do on the Norsal, except walking and skating, which tend to be the same thing anyway.

由於人口眾多，諾薩爾河上可做的事情並不多，除了步行和滑冰，反正都是一樣的事情。

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