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I had a meeting with the president there, who told me about his exit strategy for his country.
我在那與該國的總統會面，總統也向我透露了他為國家制定的生存戰略。
He expects that within the next 50 years, the 100,000 people that live there will have to relocate to New Zealand or Australia.
他預期在未來的50年里，萬千上萬的該國國民將不得不去新西蘭或澳大利亞定居。
And that made me think about how would I feel if Britain was going to disappear under the waves;
這不禁使我思考，如果某一天英國也消失在海浪里，我將會有如何的感受，
if the places where I'd been born and gone to school and got married, if all those places were just going to disappear forever.
如果這個生我的地方、我受教育的地方、我結婚的地方、如果這些地方將永遠的消失，
How, literally, ungrounded that would make me feel.
會令我感到多么多么的不真實。
Very shortly, I'll be setting out to try and get to Australia,
我很快又會出發，爭取達到澳大利亞，
and if I'm successful, I'll be the first woman ever to row solo all the way across the Pacific.
如果我成功了，我將會成為世界上第一個獨自劃船橫渡太平洋的女性，
And I try to use this to bring awareness to these environmental issues, to bring a human face to the ocean.
我想以此行動來引起人們對環境問題的警示，也向大洋送上一份人類的問候。
If the Atlantic was about my inner journey, discovering my own capabilities,
如果說橫渡大西洋是我的內在旅程，用它來發掘自己的能力，
maybe the Pacific has been about my outer journey,
那么此次太平洋之行則更像是一次外在旅程，
figuring out how I can use my interesting career choice to be of service to the world,
它可以讓我知道我怎樣利用自己熱愛的事業來為世界服務，
and to take some of those things that I've learned out there and apply them to the situation that humankind now finds itself in.
也幫助我把從那里學到的東西應用到我們人類現在正在面臨的狀況中來。
