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She really is the one that coined this term, jungle effect
"叢林效應"這個名字的靈感正是從她而來
To describe what was happening to her there and really what inspired the title for my book
描述她在亞馬遜流域的不同狀況
The next part of the inspiration for me was my own travels
靈感另一部分還來自我自己的旅行
And as you all know being in San Francisco, it gets horribly cold here during the summer
你們都知道，舊金山這個地方夏天蠻冷
And one summer in particular, I decided to volunteer in a little away side village in a very, very remote part of Peru
有一個夏天，我決定去秘魯一個很偏僻的村莊當志愿者
It is also on an tributary of the Amazon River, and I went down there to relieve one of the local doctors
村莊在亞馬遜河支流邊，我去幫當?shù)氐囊幻t(yī)生
And it really is a part of the world where there are no roads
這里屬于那種沒有公路的地方
The only way you can get there is by boat
要去那里只能坐船
It mainly serves the local Indian population
坐船的主要是本地印第安人
And in case you don't believe that I was there
為了證明我去過那里，看這個
There's nothing that you just cannot get this kind of hat in San Francisco
舊金山是沒有這種帽子的
There I am, in this little village called Las Palmeras
這是我，在一個叫Las Palmeras的小村子
And this is actually the largest piece of industry in the village
而這是村子里最大的工業(yè)
That was a for making palm wine. It was a little refinery there
制作棕櫚酒，這是個酒作坊
And there was a horse that walked around in a circle to squash the palm
里面有馬拉磨，碾磨棕櫚
But other than that, there was really no stores
除此之外，那里幾乎沒有商店
Anything you would get in this village would be incredibly local
村子里的東西幾乎都是自給自足，
coming either from the river or from the surrounding areas in the jungle and the gardens
都是當?shù)睾恿骰騾擦只虿藞@的產物
And this is the clinic
這是那個診所
Looks a lot like this hospital that we're sitting in now
同我們這里的醫(yī)院非常像吧
Same level of sophistication, you can see the hours on the doors
同樣精妙的布置，門上還有時間表
