CNN News: 非洲大陸的部分最終將被分離?

It’s one thing to patch up a crack in the wall, the floor, or the driveway. But what do you do about this?

修補(bǔ)墻壁、地板或車道上的裂縫是一回事。但是你會(huì)怎么做呢?

The crack in the earth is more than 50 feet wide in some places and 50 feet deep, and it reportedly followed heavy rains and some ground vibration last month in the Eastern African country of Kenya.

在一些地方，地球上的裂縫超過50英尺寬，50英尺深，據(jù)報(bào)道，上個(gè)月在東非國(guó)家肯尼亞發(fā)生了強(qiáng)降雨和局部地區(qū)發(fā)生地面震動(dòng)。

Scientists say this is evidence of plate tectonics, the theory that giant chunks of the earth’s crust and upper mantle are slowly shifting and breaking in some places. One area where two such plates are thought to meet is the East African Reef, and that’s near where there is going on.

科學(xué)家表示這是板塊構(gòu)造論的證據(jù)，該理論表示地球地殼和上地幔的巨大塊在某些地方正在緩慢移動(dòng)和斷裂。兩個(gè)這樣的板塊被認(rèn)為交匯的一個(gè)區(qū)域是東非的暗礁，這是附近的一個(gè)區(qū)域。

So, does this mean that part of the African continent will eventually break off? Maybe. But it’s probably nothing for us to worry about.

那么，這是否意味著非洲大陸的部分最終將被分離?也許吧。但這可能沒什么好擔(dān)心的。

If this is part of a breakup between the East African Reef and the rest of the continent, scientists say it won’t be complete for tens of millions of years.

如果這是東非珊瑚礁和其他大陸之間的分裂的一部分，科學(xué)家們說它將不會(huì)在數(shù)千萬(wàn)年的時(shí)間內(nèi)完成。