纪录片《全球怪象》 第7期：核弹威力

（单词翻译）

As all of that heat drifts upwards¹,

热量向上转移时

it gets whipped into huge hurricane-force winds.

会激发巨大的强飓风

This is a process we all have personal experience of.

这是一个我们都有切身体会的过程

When people go outside,

人们外出的时候

and one of the main reasons we feel cool

感觉凉快的最主要一个原因

is water is evaporating from our skin.

是因为水分从皮肤上蒸发掉了

And when water evaporates from us, it chills us.

当水分蒸发 我们就会感到凉爽

And that energy doesn't disappear.

而那份能量却不会消失

It goes into the atmosphere.

它进入大气层中

And by the same token

同样地

when water evaporates from the oceans

当水分从海洋中蒸发后

it takes heat out the oceans

把海洋的热量

and puts it into the atmosphere.

释放到大气层中

Hurricanes are so powerful

飓风是如此猛烈

because the heat energy being transferred from the ocean to the atmosphere

因为从海洋转移到大气层的热量

is unimaginably huge.

数量之大 难以想象

They take heat from

它们把热量

hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean.

从数十万平方公里的海洋中带走

The average hurricane turns that into

一般的飓风能把它变成

three trillion watts² of kinetic³ energy.

三万亿瓦特的动能

The equivalent of a ten megaton nuclear bomb

相当于每二十分钟

exploding about every 20 minutes.

就有一千万吨TNT当量的核弹爆炸