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The golden dome, which is mounted right at the top of the prayer pole, is the most sacred object of all. Or it will be, once it's retrieved.
番桿頂部的金頂是所有物體當中最神圣的，至少 一旦它被降下來之后是這樣。
The old Shamanic beliefs of Tibet ascribed magical powers to the landscape. But there's a far more tangible source of power here which owes nothing at all to magic.
古老的薩滿教把魔法的力量歸功于這片土地。但這里還有的更多可以感知的力量，卻和魔法沒有一丁點關系。
Strewn across the plateau are boiling thermal springs, the evidence of mighty natural forces which have been at work over millions of years.
散布于高原上的是滾燙的溫泉，這是在這里有百萬年歷史的渾厚的自然力量存在的證據。
Deep below the surface, the vast continental plates of Asia and India are crashing into each other.
在地下深處巨大的亞洲板塊和印度板塊互相沖擊。
The turmoil below erupts in clouds of sulphurous steam. It seems unlikely that scalding mineral springs should support life.
地下的混亂狀態使大量含硫的蒸汽噴薄而出，由滾燙的礦物泉來孕育生命聽起來并不太可能
But one unlikely creature thrives here precisely because of them.
但確實有種不尋常的生物因之而繁衍興旺。
