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His fate now turns on a powerful force of nature beneath the waves.
他的命運由波浪之下 一股強大的自然力開啟
An ocean gyre,A vast circular current caused by prevailing winds
海洋環流 盛行風反作用于地球自轉產生的
working against the rotation of the earth,
一股強大的環形洋流
Creating a conveyor belt of water four thousand times more powerful than the Mississippi River.
形成一條傳送帶 其威力是 密西西比河流的四千倍
If you're sitting becalmed in an ocean gyre,
如果你靜靜坐在海洋環流之中
it feels like you're a painted ship on a painted ocean,nothing's happening.
感覺就像身在畫中靜止不動 相安無事
But what's really going on is you're covering ground,
但事實是你擱淺了
but the whole sea is moving in this arc.
而整個海洋在不停地轉動
The discovery of ocean gyres will revolutionize seafaring.
海洋環流的發現將徹底改變海上航行
But Diaz has no idea of the forces that slingshot his ship
但迪亞士對這股流向非洲南端
from an empty ocean toward the southern tip of Africa.
拍打他船只的力量一無所知
He really had everything going for him,
對他來說簡直就是萬事俱備
he had the prevailing winds and the current with him,
盛行風 洋流相伴
and he was on a ride that he may not even have fully understood.
他自己估計都不知道這會是一場怎樣的旅行
Diaz claims the land in the name of god and country.
迪亞士以上帝和國家的名義宣稱對土地的所有
It will become known as the Cape of Good Hope.
后以好望角著稱
The key to a new sea route to the east,
繞過君士坦丁堡
bypassing Constantinople.A direct passage to India.
即是通往東方的一條新航道 直達印度
