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Courtillot now began to wonder what such a volcanic monster would do to life on earth.
Courtillot想知道這么大規(guī)模的火山爆發(fā)對地球上的生物會造成什么影響。
Were the Siberian Traps the Permian killer?
西伯利亞地盾是否就是二疊紀(jì)殺手呢？
Though nobody had ever seen a flood basalt eruption, he did have one clue.
盡管沒人見過泛布玄武巖噴發(fā)，他卻找到了一條線索。
Just over 200 years ago, in a region of Iceland called Laki,
就在200年前，在冰島的一個叫做拉基的地方，
a tiny but similar eruption altered the climate of the Northern Hemisphere.
一場類似的小規(guī)模火山爆發(fā)改變了整個北半球的氣候。
Benjamin Franklin, the America Ambassador in Paris at the time, recorded the effect on Europe's climate.
當(dāng)時還是美國駐法大使的本杰明·富蘭克林，記錄下了它對歐洲氣候的影響。
The skies were clogged with volcanic ash.
空中密布著火山灰。
It was a summer when the sun never shone.
整個夏季暗無天日。
Snow fell during August.
8月份就下起了大雪。
That winter was one of the worst winters in living memory.
那年冬天是我記憶中最糟的一個冬天。
That winter of 1783/1784 there were strange fogs, brown fogs,
1783-1784年的那個冬天出現(xiàn)了奇怪的褐霧，
snow, unusual amounts of snow fell and actually the winter continued onto the next summer.
雪下的特別大，冬季一直延續(xù)到第二年夏天。
This was called the year without a summer.
那年被稱為無夏之年。
There was no grape, no wine, the wheat didn't ripen
沒有葡萄，沒有葡萄酒，小麥顆粒無收，
and actually that foul weather was observed in North America and in Japan and China.
這種惡劣的天氣甚至影響到了北美和日本以及中國。
