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Our guess was basically, what you'd call...
我們的預(yù)測基本上 怎么說呢...
um, ambitious or optimistic.
太大膽或者太樂觀了
It wasn't until September 28th 2004
直到2004年9月28日
that the earthquake finally struck,
地震終于來襲了
and when it came,
而當(dāng)它來臨時
it wasn't what the scientists were hoping for.
并不像科學(xué)家所希望的那樣
It was like the fault was quiet quiet quiet
斷層一直悄無聲息
and then it broke,
然后突然斷裂了
and it was sort of, it was a fairly negative result.
可以說是一個相當(dāng)令人失望的結(jié)果
You know, we were sort of waiting to catch that precursor
我們一直在等待時機(jī)想利用設(shè)備
with all these instruments, and nothing happened.
捕獲前兆跡象 但卻什么都沒有發(fā)生
Instead of finding signals that might predict an earthquake,
沒有找到能夠預(yù)測地震的信號
all that the Parkfield experiment seemed to prove
相反 所有帕克菲爾德實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)果似乎都
was that these natural disasters
證明了這種自然災(zāi)害
were far more complex than anyone had ever imagined.
超乎想象地復(fù)雜
You know it was sort of taken as a negative result
實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)果被認(rèn)為是失敗的
and some people were saying
有人開始說
"Time to put the nail in the coffin.
可以蓋棺論定了
"Earthquake prediction is dead. "
地震預(yù)測根本沒戲
And I think that's a bit extreme.
我認(rèn)為這樣說有些極端
