Name: 我是如何在亞馬遜河發現一條神話般的沸騰河的？ (How I found a mythical boiling river in the Amazon |)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:54:29.000Z
Duration: 15 min 50 s

譯者: Lucia Huang 審譯者: Marssi Draw

Atahualpa, emperor of the Inca, had been captured and killed.

Pizarro and his conquistadors had grown rich,

印加國王阿塔瓦爾帕， 被俘虜並遭到殺害。

and tales of their conquest and glory had reached Spain

皮澤洛和他帶領的征服者得到財富。

and was bringing new waves of Spaniards, hungry for gold and glory.

他們的事蹟與榮耀傳回西班牙，

They would go into towns and ask the Inca,

吸引一波波渴望 黃金和榮譽的西班牙人。

"Where's another civilization we can conquer? Where's more gold?"

And the Inca, out of vengeance, told them,

「哪裡還有我們能征服的文明？ 哪裡還有更多的黃金？」

於是印加人出於報復，告訴他們：

In fact, there is a city called Paititi -- El Dorado in Spanish --

那裡有一個叫帕蒂蒂的城市， 西班牙語叫做 El Dorado，

but the few that return come back with stories,

但只有幾個人回來， 他們帶回了許多故事。

of trees so tall they blotted out the sun,

spiders that ate birds, snakes that swallowed men whole

有吃鳥的蜘蛛， 可以吞掉一整個人的蛇，

這些故事，成為我的童年回憶。

trying to understand Peru's geothermal energy potential,

現在我在南衛理公會大學 攻讀博士學位，

You see, boiling rivers do exist in the world,

but they're generally associated with volcanoes.

你知道，世界上確實有 沸騰的河流，

to produce such a large geothermal manifestation.

And as you can see from the red dots here, which are volcanoes,

你們可以看到這些紅點代表火山。

So it follows: We should not expect to see a boiling river.

Telling this same story at a family dinner,

由此看來，我們不可能 見到一條沸騰的河流。

一次家庭聚餐，我提到這個故事，

"But no, Andrés, I've been there. I've swum in that river."

「但是安德烈，我以前去過那裡， 還在河裡游泳過。」

You see, you can only swim in it after a very heavy rain,

你要知道只有在豪雨之後， 你才能在這條河裡游泳。

有一位強大的薩滿 保䕶著這條河。

你的姑姑就是他妻子的友人。」

You know, despite all my scientific skepticism,

I found myself hiking into the jungle, guided by my aunt,

over 700 kilometers away from the nearest volcanic center,

我發現自己跟著姑姑的指引， 深入叢林，

and well, honestly, mentally preparing myself

而最近的火山中心 遠在 700 公里之外。

to behold the legendary "warm stream of the Amazon."

看到傳說中的「亞馬遜暖水流」。

It sounded like ocean waves constantly crashing,

and as we got closer, I saw smoke, vapor, coming up through the trees.

我們接近時，煙霧與水汽 穿過樹林而來。

I immediately grabbed for my thermometer,

and the average temperatures in the river

This is not quite the 100-degree C boiling

I followed it upriver and was led by, actually, the shaman's apprentice

薩滿的學徒帶我 順著河往上游前行，

mother of the waters, a giant serpent spirit

這條巨蛇之靈是所有水流之母，

mixing with cold stream water underneath her protective motherly jaws

在這裡，我們發現了一道 混合著冷水流的溫泉，

到了第二天早上，我一覺醒來…

To my surprise, the water was clean and had a pleasant taste,

which is a little weird for geothermal systems.

讓我感到意外的是， 河水很乾淨，有很好的味道，

這對於地熱系統來說不太尋常。

is that the locals had always known about this place,

and that I was by no means the first outsider to see it.

而我肯定不是第一個知道的外人。

and he seemed like an extension of the river and his jungle.

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