在關(guān)島會遇上什么危機和災難

今天的這段對話，在討論自然災害，
 
關(guān)島的自然風景很美，在這里會遇上什么危機和災難
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: Is there any natural disasters which happen?
 
有沒有發(fā)生過自然災難？
 
B: Yeah, there's plenty of natural disasters. Guam is actually right on the coast of a reef formation called the Mariana's trench and underneath, in this trench is the lowest part of the world, the deepest part of the world.
 
有，發(fā)生過很多自然災難。關(guān)島位于珊瑚礁海岸上，臨近馬里亞納海溝，這個海溝是世界上最深的地方。
 
A: Wow!
 
哇！
 
B: Yeah, so we joke about it. We joke that Guam's highest mountain, Mt. Lan Lan is actually the highest mountain in the world if you count off from its base which is in the Marianas trench, the lowest part of the world.
 
對，我們經(jīng)常會開玩笑。我們會開玩笑說，如果從世界最低的馬里亞納海溝底部開始算，那關(guān)島最高峰蘭蘭山就是世界最高峰了。
 
A: Wow, that's amazing! So there must be good diving if you talk about barrier reefs.
 
哇，那太不可思議了！你剛才說有珊瑚礁，那一定適合潛水。
 
B: Yeah, there's plenty of good diving. It's got really great diving like you would find in Hawaii or in the Great Barrier Reef. And many, many tourists from all over Asia come to Guam to scuba dive because of their great spots. It's the closest US soil they can get to.
 
對，有很多適合潛水的地方。你會發(fā)現(xiàn)像夏威夷和大堡礁那樣的潛水圣地。有許多亞洲游客因為優(yōu)美的風景而來到關(guān)島體驗水肺潛水。那里是他們可以去的最近的美國領(lǐng)土。
 
A: Ah, I see. But in Australia in the Great Barrier Reefs, there's lots of dangerous animals. Is that the case in Guam as well?
 
哦，我知道了。不過澳大利亞大堡礁有很多危險動物。關(guān)島也有嗎？
 
B: Well, actually that's funny you should ask, there has been a recent article about a guy in Guam, a very young guy who was scuba diving, and he got stung by a lion fish, but that is the extent of the dangerous animals of Guam. You'd have to go out into the deep sea to find more dangerous animals. But I think the most dangerous ones we have are quite small — things like the lion fish which I just mentioned, he just got stung, but it wasn't anything terrible. We do have reef sharks, but they are not great white sharks so they are quite small and smaller poisonous things like trigger fish, those you just have to be careful about whenever you are scuba diving, but other than that there's not much dangers in the sea.
 
你這個問題讓我想起了一件有趣的事，最近有報道稱一個年輕小伙子在關(guān)島體驗水肺潛水時被獅子魚刺傷了，不過關(guān)島的危險動物基本就是這種。深海有更多的危險動物。不過我認為最危險的動物都是那些小型動物，比如我剛剛提到的獅子魚，那名年輕人只是被刺了，并不嚴重。關(guān)島有礁鯊，不是那種大白鯊，礁鯊個頭很小，還有像炮彈魚這種毒性很小的動物，這些都是你在關(guān)島進行水肺潛水時需要注意的動物，不過除此之外，關(guān)島海域沒有太多危險。
 
A: Great.
 
不錯。