夏威夷趣闻！：英语精读讲义

Vsauce,

Vsauce，

Michael here and I am back from vacation.

我是 Michael，度假回来啦。

You may not have known, 語法

你可能还不知道，

but I just spent the last week in Hawaii

但我上周刚在夏威夷待了一整周，

with my mother and my sister.

和我妈妈、妹妹一起。

She's the one hiding right there. 語法

她就是躲在那边的那位。

I worked on my tan, 短語搭配

我把皮肤晒黑了些，

grew my beard back out, 短語動詞

又把胡子留长了，

and most importantly, 表達脈絡

而最重要的是，

I learned a lot.

我学到了很多东西。

And I wanted to share some of that knowledge with you today.

今天，我想和大家分享其中一些知识。

In fact,

事实上，

on Saturday,

就在周六，

I'm gonna release a brand new Vsauce Leanback made out of videos from producers all over YouTube 短語搭配

我会发布一期全新的 Vsauce Leanback，内容汇集了 YouTube 上众多创作者的视频，

that I was inspired to watch after learning things in Hawaii.

这些视频都是我在夏威夷学到各种知识后，受到启发才去看的。

It's going to be exciting,

这一定会很精彩，

but today

不过今天，

Right now,

就在此刻，

let's get started and begin with Pearl Harbor. 表達脈絡

让我们开始吧，先从珍珠港说起。

In 1941,

1941 年，

more than 300 Japanese fighters attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. 文化背景

300 多架日本战斗机袭击了美国位于珍珠港的海军基地。

The USS Arizona was one of the many battleships damaged or sunk, 語法

“亚利桑那”号是当时受损或沉没的多艘战列舰之一，

and the Arizona was left right where it sank. 語法

而“亚利桑那”号就留在了沉没之处。

It's still there,

它至今仍在那里，

and a memorial has been built right on top of it.

人们还在它正上方建起了一座纪念馆。

From the memorial,

从纪念馆里，

you can see something pretty surprising.

你能看到一件相当惊人的事。

The ship is still leaking fuel.

这艘船至今仍在漏油。

It once held more than a million gallons of fuel,

它当初装载了超过 100 万加仑的燃油，

and so even today,

所以即使到了今天，

70 years later,

70 年后，

it continues to leak 5 gallons of gas every day into the ocean.

它仍每天向海里泄漏 5 加仑燃油。

In fact,

事实上，

you can actually smell it from the memorial.

你在纪念馆里甚至能闻到燃油的气味。

The Navy hasn't fixed it yet because the leak is seen as a constant reminder of what happened 講解

海军至今没有修复漏油问题，因为人们把它视为对当年事件永不消逝的提醒，

and as tears that have continued to flow ever since the day of the attack. 講解

也视为从遇袭之日起便一直流淌至今的泪水。

Pearl Harbor also has this giant map,

珍珠港还有这样一张巨型地图，

which shows you something else I was excited about being close to the International Date Line. 文化背景

它还展示了另一件让我兴奋的事：这里离国际日期变更线很近。

It's an arbitrary line where the new day begins.

这是一条人为划定的线，新的一天从这里开始。

You see, 語氣意圖

你看，

when the sun rises in the morning for these Pacific Islands, 語法

当这些太平洋岛屿迎来清晨的日出时，

different days are beginning.

各地开始的却可能是不同的一天。

In Samoa,

在萨摩亚，

it might be 9 in the morning on Thursday,

可能是周四早上 9 点，

but just a few hundred miles away across the date line,

但仅仅几百英里外、跨过日期变更线的地方，

it's 9 in the morning on Friday,

已经是周五早上 9 点，

1 day in the future.

也就是未来一天。

This means that some pretty weird things can happen. 用詞

这意味着一些相当奇怪的事情可能发生。

For instance, 表達脈絡

比如，

Amelia Earhart disappeared without a trace 習語

阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特曾消失得无影无踪，

while traveling from New Guinea to Howland Island. 語法

当时她正从新几内亚前往豪兰岛。

She was talking,

她当时还在说话，

communicating,

还在保持通信，

and most definitely live on July 3rd, 講解

而且在 7 月 3 日毫无疑问还活着，

but then she crossed the date line and disappeared forever on July 2nd.

可随后她跨过日期变更线，却在 7 月 2 日永远消失了。

At the Dole Plantation,

在都乐种植园，

you can take a train called the Pineapple Express and see coffee being grown. 語法

你可以乘坐名叫“菠萝快车”的火车，看看咖啡是如何种植的。

Or you can visit Kona and toast the camera with coffee made from beans right below you. 語氣意圖

或者去科纳，拿一杯用脚下种植的咖啡豆冲成的咖啡，对着镜头举杯致意。

If you prefer softer beans,

如果你更喜欢软一些的豆子，

grab a shaved ice from Matsumoto with red beans at the bottom. 文化背景

那就来一份 Matsumoto 的刨冰，底下还铺着红豆。

Or eat some shrimp so fresh that they were grown in ponds right behind the shrimp shack. 語法

或者吃些无比新鲜的虾——它们就养在虾屋后面的池塘里。

This is the hospital Barack Obama was born in, 語法

这就是贝拉克·奥巴马出生的医院，

and the top of Diamond Head, 文化背景

而在钻石头山顶，

a volcanic tuff cone in Honolulu,

这是一座位于檀香山的火山凝灰岩锥，

has a great view of the city,

你可以欣赏到绝佳的城市风光，

but it's so windy that all around the steep sides are clumps of lost hats. 語法

但那里风大得惊人，陡峭山坡四周散落着一堆堆被吹走的帽子。

By the way, 表達脈絡

顺便说一句，

the camera I've been using this entire time says it's waterproof. 語法

我一直在用的这台相机标明是防水的。

And to find out if it is, 短語動詞

为了验证它到底防不防水，

I'm gonna send my sister down.

我要让妹妹带着它下去。

Good luck.

祝你好运。

Finally,

最后，

Mauna Kea, 文化背景

毛纳基山，

the highest point in Hawaii,

夏威夷的最高点，

and if measured from its seafloor base, 語法

如果从海底的山脚算起，

a mountain taller than Mount Everest.

这座山甚至比珠穆朗玛峰还高。

It's above the clouds,

它耸立在云层之上，

so driving up is really freaky.

所以开车上山真的让人心惊胆战。

You literally drive into and through the cloudline. 用詞

你会实实在在地开进云层，再从中穿过。

The dry air,

干燥的空气、

high altitude,

很高的海拔，

and Comair make it perfect for observing space.

以及平稳的气流，让这里成为观测太空的绝佳地点。

Well,

不过，

I didn't get to use those telescopes, 短語搭配

我没能使用那些望远镜，

but people had smaller ones I could use pointed right at Saturn.

但有人带了小一些的望远镜，我可以用它们直接观察土星。

I tried to get camera footage of it,

我试着用相机把它拍下来，

and this is the best I could do. 語法

这已经是我能拍出的最好效果了。

To learn more about Saturn and Hawaii's volcanic activity and a whole host of other issues, 短語搭配

如果想进一步了解土星、夏威夷的火山活动以及其他许多话题，

be sure to watch our Leanback coming out this Saturday. 短語動詞

一定要收看本周六上线的 Leanback。

It's an autoplaying playlist that I host full of video clips from producers all over YouTube,

这是一个由我主持、会自动播放的播放列表，里面满是 YouTube 各路创作者的视频片段，

so they get the views.

这样视频的播放量就会归他们。

And if you like what they make,

如果你喜欢他们的作品，

you can subscribe to them.

还可以订阅他们的频道。

Stay tuned for that. 習語

敬请期待。

And,

还有，

as always,

一如既往，

thanks for watching.

感谢观看。