001 怪兽季风

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Welcome to Mawsynram, India!

欢迎来到印度的莫辛拉姆！

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This village sits high in the hills below the Himalaya Mountains

这个村庄坐落在喜马拉雅山脉下方的高山上。

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Mawsynram is famous for something: it's the wettest place on earth!

莫辛拉姆以某件事而闻名：它是地球上最湿润的地方！

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Every year Mawsynram gets over 11,870 millimeters of rain

莫辛拉姆每年的降雨量超过11,870毫米。

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That's enough to fill a rain gauge as tall as a four-story building!

这足以装满一个四层楼高的雨量计！

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Ninety percent of this rain falls from April to September

百分之九十的降雨集中在四月到九月。

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What makes Mawsynram get so much rain?

是什么让莫辛拉姆下这么多雨呢？

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An annual wind system called a monsoon

一种被称为季风的年度风系。

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There is a wet monsoon and a dry monsoon

有湿季风和干季风。

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During the wet monsoon, the wind comes from the southwest

在湿季风期间，风来自西南方向。

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It brings water from the ocean

它从海洋带来水汽。

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Clouds form and travel with the wind

云形成后随风飘移。

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But the Himalaya Mountains block the clouds over Mawsynram

但喜马拉雅山脉阻挡了莫辛拉姆上空的云层。

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So rain falls... and falls and falls!

于是雨下个不停……下呀，下呀！

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So much rain makes Mawsynram green and beautiful

如此充沛的雨水让莫辛拉姆变得郁郁葱葱，美不胜收。

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But living in this monster monsoon is not easy!

但生活在这样猛烈的季风中可不容易！

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There is frequent flooding and a lot of mud

经常发生洪水，到处是泥泞。

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There is too much water to raise crops

水太多了，无法种植庄稼。

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So people must grow and store food during the dry season

所以人们必须在旱季种植并储存食物。

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Or they buy food at the market

或者他们去市场购买食物。

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They must also store wood for fuel

他们还得储存木柴当燃料。

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Oh, and the pounding rain makes a lot of noise!

哦，还有，暴雨敲打的声音非常吵！

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People use grass to soundproof their tin roofs

人们用草来给铁皮屋顶隔音。

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Clouds often drift through houses and everything gets wet!

云常常飘进屋里，所有东西都湿透了！

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Women weave grass umbrellas so that people can work in the rain

妇女们编织草伞，这样人们就能在雨中干活了。

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These umbrellas cover the body — just like a turtle's shell!

这种伞能把身体罩起来——就像乌龟壳一样！

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Even with those umbrellas, getting around Mawsynram can be tough

就算有这种伞，在莫辛拉姆出行也挺困难的。

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Roads wash away

路会被冲毁。

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And wooden bridges rot within a few years

木桥用不了几年就腐烂了。

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So people build " living " bridges

所以人们就修建“活”桥。

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First they lay bamboo across streams

他们先把竹子横架在小溪上。

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Then they tie tree roots onto the bamboo

然后把树根绑在竹子上。

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The roots grow across the stream and into the soil on the other side

树根会慢慢长过小溪，扎进对岸的土里。

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The bamboo rots away. But the roots form a living bridge

竹子腐烂掉了，但树根构成了一座活桥。

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The oldest living bridge is over five hundred years old!

最古老的活桥已经五百多岁了！

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Whew! After so many months of rain, people are ready to dry off

呼！下了这么好几个月的雨，人们都盼着能干爽干爽。

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The dry monsoon starts in the autumn

旱季风在秋天开始。

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Dry desert air blows in from the northeast

干燥的沙漠空气从东北方向吹来。

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The rain finally stops and the water drains away

雨终于停了，积水也排走了。

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But the dry monsoon brings a different problem

不过旱季风也带来了另一个问题。

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Now people have too little water — in the wettest place on earth!

现在，在地球上最湿润的地方，人们的水却不够用了！