亚马逊沸腾河【人类动脉】第10期
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背景知识：
Shanay-timpishka，意思是“热得如太阳一般的沸腾”。据传说记载,热水是由一条叫Yacumama的巨蛇释放的，而位于河源的是一块形似蛇头的大圆石。河中温度高达摄氏100度，由于河水太热，当地人会直接取来泡茶。同时，他们也相信来自河水的蒸汽能够让当地的草叶药性更强。但是时至今日，还没有人能够解释这条河的奥秘。
视频文本：
Imagine a river, hot enough to kill you, said to be the home of a powerful Amazonian water spirit. That place is real, and I’ve been there. It’s the Shanay-timpishka, the boiling river of the Amazon. My name is Andres Ruzo, and I’m a geothermal scientist and conservationist. As a boy in Lima, my grandfather told me this crazy story about the the search for the lost city of gold. But there was a detail in that story, about a river that boiled. I certainly imagined it, but never really dwelled on it, it was just a detail. It’s getting much hotter. It turns out this place is real. So the boiling river’s located in the heart of the central Peruvian Amazon. The hottest temperature I’ve measured was over 210 degrees Fahrenheit. To put that into everyday terms, the average coffee is roughly 130 degrees. It’s hard to physically imagine that much hot water. You stick your hand in, and you will see second and third degree burns in a matter of seconds. I’ve seen a number of animals fall into the boiling river, everything from birds to reptiles. Complex organisms like us, we don’t do well at those high temperatures. We literally start to cook on the bone. Feeling that heat come into you, breathing in this thick hot air, where you can feel the air heating you up inside your nose, you can feel it going into your lungs, you can feel the presence of your lungs because of the heat of the air. It still gives me goosebumps. The true name of the boiling river is Shanay-timpishka and that means, according to one of the local shamans, boiled with the heat of the sun. It’s spectacular. It’s, this place has totally redefined what it means to be sacred for me. I think once you’ve experienced something that’s truly moved you, you love it. And you can’t let that go.
Note:
reptile: 爬行动物
goosebump: 鸡皮疙瘩
shaman: 萨满
sacred: 神圣的