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The people of Churchill love the polar bears.
丘吉爾鎮的居民喜歡北極熊。
They feel honoured to have the bears come through their town.
北極熊從他們的小鎮通過，他們感到很榮幸。
And the polar bears help the people of Churchill.
北極熊也幫助了丘吉爾鎮的居民。
When visitors come, the town's people can make money.
當游客來的時候，鎮上的人們可以賺錢。
That's right. The visitors pay money to eat, sleep, and spend time in the town.
沒錯。游客在鎮上花錢吃飯、睡覺和游玩。
And they pay money to take vehicles out onto the ice.
他們花錢在冰上乘車游覽。
When they are on the ice, polar bears will come to say hello.
當他們在冰上時，北極熊會過來和他們打招呼。
They smell the vehicles and look at the people.
北極熊會用鼻子聞聞汽車并看著人們。
Guides make sure that both the people and the polar bears remain safe.
導游確保游客和北極熊的安全。
But, rising temperatures are starting to threaten the lives of the polar bears.
但是，不斷上升的氣溫開始威脅到北極熊的生活。
Because of warmer temperatures, the water is frozen for a shorter amount of time each year.
由于氣溫升高，每年的冰期縮短了。
The polar bears must spend more time on land.
北極熊必須在陸地上待更多的時間。
They do not have as much time to hunt in the winter.
它們在冬天就沒有那么多時間去捕獵了。
Some polar bears try to remain on melting ice.
一些北極熊試圖留在正在融化的冰層上。
When the ice melts they are too far away from land. And they drown.
當冰層融化時，它們離陸地就太遠了。然后它們就淹死了。
Other polar bears are starting to trouble the people of Churchill.
還有一些北極熊開始給丘吉爾的居民帶來麻煩。
The bears are hungry. So, they go into the town looking for food.
北極熊餓了。于是，它們去鎮里尋找食物。
Sometimes the bears act aggressively. They attack.
有時北極熊會有攻擊性行為。它們會攻擊。
The People of Churchill are worried.
丘吉爾鎮的居民很擔心。
"You know, the earth is warming. And so there are some dangers in climate change...The bears, for instance, how will they survive...?"
“你知道，地球氣候正在變暖。因此，氣候變化會帶來一些危險……例如，北極熊將如何活下去……”
"I am worried. Because the bears are the lives of a lot of people in this town."
“我很擔心。因為這個鎮上很多人的生活都依賴北極熊。”
"We love this place. We learn to live with what is happening.
“我們愛這個地方。我們要學會接受正在發生的一切。
Except for this warm weather!
除了這溫暖的天氣！
We just do not understand what the heck is going on!
我們只是不明白到底發生了什么事！
And really I believe it is the big cities down south causing the warmer weather."
我認為其實是南方的大城市使得氣候變得越來越暖。”
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