Natureisspeaking中英文本

1、-. z.Nature is speaking中英文本1.Nature 大自然Some call me nature.有人称我为大自然。Others call me Mother Nature.也有人叫我大自然母亲。Ive been here for over 4.5 billion years.我在这里已经超过45亿年。22,500 times longer than you.是你们人类存在时间的22500倍。I dont really need people. But people need me.我真的不需要人类。但人类需要我。Yes, your future depends on me

2、.是的，你的未来取决于我。When I thrive, you thrive. When I falter, you falter. Or worse.如果我繁盛，你们也将繁盛。如果我衰败，你们也会衰败或者更糟。But Ive been here for eons.但我已经永世存在于此。I have fed species greater than you. And I have starved species greater than you.我养育过比你们强大得多的物种。我也曾让比你们强大得多的物种因饥饿而亡。My oceans. My soil. My flowing streams.

3、My forests.我的海洋。我的土壤。我的河流。我的森林。They all can take you or leave you.它们都可以左右人类的存在。How you choose to live each day, whether you regard or disregard me, doesnt really matter to me.你们如何选择每天的生活，是否在意我还是无视我，我都不在乎。One way or the other. Your actions will determine your fate. Not mine.不管怎样，你们的行为决定了你们的命运，不是我的。I

4、am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to evolve.我是自然。我会继续下去。我随时准备进化。Are you而你们呢？2.Ocean 海洋I am the ocean. Im water. Im most of this planet. I shaped it.我是海洋，我是水，我覆盖了大局部地球。我创造了它。Every stream, every cloud, and every rain drop. It all es back to me.每一条河，每一朵云，每一滴雨，都将回到我的怀抱。One way or another, every liv

5、ing thing here needs me.不管怎样，地球上所有的生物都需要我。Im the source. Im what they crawled out of.我是源头，所有的生命都来自于我。Humans Theyre no different.人类？他们没有什么不同。I dont owe them a thing.我不欠他们。I give. They take. But I can always take back.我付出，他们索取。但是我可以随时收回。Thats just the way its always been.人们一直都是这样做。Its not their planet

6、 anyway. Never was. Never will be.毕竟这不是你们的星球，以前不是，以后也不是。But humans, they take more than their share.但人类，他们贪得无厌。They poison me, then they e*pect me to feed them.他们毒死我，竟然还想让我继续养活他们。Well it doesnt work that way.这怎么可能。If humans want to e*ist in nature with me and off of me, I suggest they listen close.

7、Im only going to say this once.如果人类想在大自然中与我共存，赖我而生，我要你们听仔细我只说一次。If nature isnt kept healthy, humans wont survive.如果没有安康的大自然，人类将走向灭亡。Simple as that.就则简单。Me, I could give a damn, with or without humans.至于我，有没有人类都无所谓。Im the ocean. I covered this entire planet once.我的海洋。我曾经覆盖过整个地球。And I can always cover

8、 it again.我也可以再一次把它全部覆盖。Thats all I have to say.这就是我要说的。3.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 e*ist. 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 th

9、is planet你们意识到了吗，我只是这个地球薄薄的一层皮肤？And that Im 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

10、，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？4.Rainforest 雨林I am the rainforest.我是雨林。I watched them grow up here.我看着他们在这里成长。Theyve left. B

11、ut they always e back.他们离开了。但他们总是会回来。Yes, they always e back.是的，他们总会回来的。For my trees, their wood.为了获取我的树木，作为木材。My plants, their medicines.为了采集我的植物，充当药材。For my beauty, their escape.我的美丽是他们的世外桃源。Ive always been there for them and I have been more than generous.我有求必应。我大方大方。Sometimes I gave it all to th

12、em. Now gone forever.有时候，我付出了全部。现在一切不复返。But humans, theyre so smart. So smart.但人类啊，他们真的很聪明，真的很聪明。Such big brains and opposable thumbs.这么智慧的大脑，灵巧的双手。They know how to make things. Amazing things.他们善于创造，了不起的创造。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

13、, 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. Theyll figure it out.人类，这么聪明。他们会想出方法的。Humans making air. Thatll be fun to watch.人类制造氧气。那可太有意思了。5.Water 水I am water. To humans I am simply just there.我是水。对于人类来说我司空见惯。Im somethin

14、g they just take for granted.我对他们只是理所当然的东西。But there is only so much of me. And more and more of them every single day.但是我是非常有限的，而人类的数量却每天都在增长。I start as rain in the mountains flow to the rivers and streams. And end up in the ocean.我化身为雨水落入山中，流进小溪与河流并最终汇入海洋。Then the cycle begins again.然后循环再次开场。And i

15、t will take me 10,000 years to get back to the state I am in now.要回到我现在的状态需要一万年。But to humans Im just water. Just there.然而对于人类来说，我只是水，理所当然就在那里。Where will humans find me when there are billions more of them around如果人口再增加几十亿，人类还能找到我吗？Where will they find themselves他们自己又将如何生存？Will they wage wars over m

16、e他们会为了我而发动战争吗？Like they do over everything else就像他们为了其他事而做的那样？Thats always an option. But its not the only option.那倒是一种选择，但并非唯一的选择。6.Redwod 红木How e youre so smart你怎么这么聪明？Kid, Ive been around a really long time. As a matter of fact, our kind has been around longer than just about anything. Ive seen j

17、ust about everything.小子，我已经活了很久很久。事实上，我们是这个世界上最古老的生物了。我已经什么都见识过了。Really Like what真的吗？比方什么？Well, Ive seen weather. All kinds of weather.比方气候吧，各式各样的气候。And lots of critters 还有许多动物吗？Yeah. At first there were just some bugs and spiders, then some mice and rats, and some rabbits and bears, and skunks .The

18、n, all of a sudden, there were humans. And all hell broke loose.是啊。最早的时候就是些昆虫和蜘蛛，后来就有了老鼠，兔子，熊和臭鼬。再后来人类突然出现了。一切就乱了套。Why What did the humans do为什么？人类做了什么呢？Well, they changed wolves into dogs, rivers into lakes, and us into wood. They started using the planet like it was put there just for them. Act li

19、ke theyve got an e*tra one laying around.他们把狼驯化成了狗，让江河变成湖泊，把我们变成木材。他们把地球据为己有，就好似专门为他们准备的一样。就好似他们还有一个地球一样。Why do they do that Why dont they understand他们为什么这样做呢？他们不懂得后果吗？I dont know. If they dont figure out that theyre part of nature rather than just using nature, they probably wont be around to see y

20、ou grow up.我不知道。如果他们不懂得自己是大自然的一局部而是肆意利用自然，则他们也许等不到你长大。7.Flower 花I am a flower.我是花。Yes, Im beautiful. Ive heard it before and it never grows old.是的，我很美。人们常这么说，而且从来不会变老。Im worshiped for my looks, my scent, my looks.人们崇拜我的长相，我的气味，我的容貌。But heres the thing. Life starts with me.但是事情是这样的，生活由我而起。You see I f

21、eed people. Every fruit es from me.你看，我在哺育人类。每个水果来自于我。Every potato. Me.每个土豆，来自于我。Every kernel of corn. Me. Every grain of rice. Me.每粒玉米，来自于我。每颗麦子也来自于我。Me, me, me, I know. But its true.我，我，我，我知道，但这是真的。And sometimes I feed their souls.有时人类的心灵也会需要我。I am their words when they have none.当你无法表达时候，我可以帮你说出。

22、I say I love you, without a sound. Im sorry, without a voice.我说我爱你不带一个声响。我很抱歉，没有一个声音。I inspire the greatest of them.我是启发伟人的源泉。Painters, poets, pattern makers. Ive been a muse to them all.画家，诗人，模型师。我一直是他们的缪斯。But in my e*perience, people underestimate the power of a pretty little flower.但以我的经历，人们低估了一朵

23、漂亮小花的力量。Because their life does start with me and it could end without me.因为他们的生活确实由我而起，也可以由我而终。8.Coral 珊瑚礁I am coral.我是珊瑚礁。Some people think Im just a rock.有些人认为我只是岩石。When, in fact, Im the largest thing alive on this planet.但事实上，我是这个星球最大的生命体。Im so big, I can be seen from space. But for how long大到从太

24、空都可以看到我。但还能持续多久？I grew for almost 250 million years and humans came along and now one fifth of me is gone.我来到这里大约2.5亿年后人类出现了，从那时起我已经失去了我的五分之一。Sure, l live at the bottom of the sea. And you might not see me that often.是的，我生活在海底，你们很少能见到我。But you do need me.但是你们需要我。Do you realize that one quarter of al

25、l marine life depends on me你们知道有四分之一的海洋生物都依赖我生存吗？I am the nursery of the sea.我是海洋生物的栖息地。Little fish depend on me for food and to hide from the big fish.我为小鱼提供食物，为它们提供躲避大鱼追捕的庇护所。And guess who eats the big fish猜猜谁吃大鱼呢？Thats right. You do.是的。是你们。Im the protein factory for the world.我是全世界的蛋白质工厂。Yet you

26、raise the temperature of the ocean so I cant live here anymore.但你们却让海洋温度不断升高，使我无法继续生存。And when big storms and tsunamis barrel through the ocean, Im your fortress.当风暴和海啸灾大洋上吼叫而过时，是我在为你们遮挡。Yet you tear me apart with dynamite and poison me with cyanide.然而你们却用炸药把我撕碎，用氰化物来毒害我。Well, heres a crazy thought:

27、 Stop killing me.我有一个疯狂的想法：停顿伤害我。9.Sky 天空Look up. 抬头看There I am. I am the Sky. 我在这里I am a warm and protective blanket wrapped around everyone on Earth. 我散发温暖，保护地球上的每一个人I can bring clouds, rain and the wind. I can be an ice storm. 风起云动雨飘，甚至狂风暴雨，都由我掌控Without me, youd fry. 没有我，你将受尽烈日煎熬Every day, I am t

28、he breath you take in, yet you are making me sick. 我是你呼吸的每一口空气，但你却害我奄奄一息I am congested, off-balance, polluted.失去平衡，充满污染You see, I am more delicate than you think. 其实我，比你所想的要脆弱It took millions of years to get it just right my perfect mi* of gases, temperature and weather that you enjoy.经历了数百万年，才完美调整好

29、适应你用的空气、温度和气候But now your cars, your factories and dust they have pushed me past the limit. 你用汽车、工厂、灰尘将我逼向绝境And you wonder why my typhoons and tornadoes are more intense, more frequent 却反向我抱怨台风、龙卷风为何更密更狂I have bee unpredictable. 我已无法自控Less rain here, a lot more rain there.这里久旱不雨，那里雨水泛滥Hotter summers

30、, colder winters.炎夏更炎, 寒冬更寒I cannot even control myself anymore. 我已无法自控Enough about me. 算了吧I will show my changing self to you in your days ahead. 来日给你们展现我的剧变吧But in the end, Ill be fine. 最后，天是不会塌下来的Give me a few thousand years. 给我几千年吧I have weathered trauma before. 以往大秧大祸，我都有力回天I am not worried for

31、 myself.不是自己，而是你Look up.记住，命，由天定10.Mountain 山I am the Mountain.我是山I am natures oldest temple.我是自然界最古老的圣殿My glaciers and streams provide the water you drink.我的冰川河流，为你们提供维持生命的水My forests, your wood, your clean air.我的森林，你们的树木，为你们提供新鲜的空气From up here, I see how youve e to treat this world.我清晰地看到，你们对这个地球的所作所为You used to recharge your body and soul in the calm of my forests.曾经，你们来到我的森林，只为享受身心的宁静You once climbed my peaks, seeking enlightenment.攀登到我的顶峰，只为获得心灵的启迪Now you take what you want, and contemplate