英语听书《海底两万里》第408期 第25章 地中海四十八小时(34)

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Captain Nemo kept his prow¹ pointing south. Where was he taking us? I was afraid to guess. 尼摩船长仍是把船头指向南方。他带我们到哪里去？我不敢设想。

That day the Nautilus crossed an odd part of the Atlantic Ocean.  这一天，诺第留斯号走过了大西洋很新奇的一部分海面。

No one is unaware² of the existence of that great warm-water current known by name as the Gulf³ Stream.  大家知道大西洋中有那名为“漩流”的大暖流存在。

After emerging from channels off Florida, it heads toward Spitzbergen.  暖流从佛罗里达湾出未，向斯勃齐堡湾流去。

But before entering the Gulf of Mexico near latitude⁴ 44 degrees north, this current divides into two arms;  但在流入墨西哥湾之前，在北纬44度左右，暖流分为两支：

its chief arm makes for the shores of Ireland and Norway while the second flexes⁵ southward at the level of the Azores;  主流奔向爱尔兰和挪威海岸，支流弯折向南，与阿棱尔群岛在同一纬度，

then it hits the coast of Africa, sweeps in a long oval, and returns to the Caribbean Sea. 然后抵达非洲海岸，画一个长长的椭圆形，回到安的列斯群岛。

Now then, this second arm--more accurately⁶, a collar--forms a ring of warm water around a section of cool, tranquil⁷, motionless ocean called the Sargasso Sea.  可是，这条第二支流一一与其说是手臂般的支流，不如说是项圈一般的环流一形成许多暖流圈，把这部分冰冷、平静和不动的大西洋围绕起来，名为萨尔加斯海。

This is an actual lake in the open Atlantic, and the great current's waters take at least three years to circle it. 这是大西洋中的真正湖沼，大暖流的水要绕这湖一周，非三年的时间不成。

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