纪录片《非洲》 第77期:撒哈拉沙漠（18）

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It's big and they have a lot of poison in his dark thing.

他体型硕大 而且黑色部分带有大量毒液

What, that thing there?

是那里吗

Don't! Oh, my god!

别动 我的天

Don't touch it!

千万别碰

The scorpion¹ will be released far, far away from the camp,

毒蝎会被带到远离营区的地方放生

No such luck for the team.

摄制组就没这种好运了

They're back to work in the midday sun.

他们要回去工作 再战骄阳

This is, this is too much. This is crazy.

实在太热了 太疯狂了

This is crazy.

太疯狂了

Indeed.

的确

The heat seems to have given

看来热浪已经让

Kat and Warwick a touch of Saharan madness.

卡特和沃里克感受到了撒哈拉的狂热

The plan is to do an experiment,

我们计划做个实验

to find out how fast these little ants can run.

弄清这些银蚁的最快跑动速度

So we're going to lay this along the floor,

所以我们要沿地面铺上标尺

and hopefully an ant will run alongside² it

但愿有只银蚁能沿着它跑

and we can film it at high speed.

让我们拍下它高速跑动的画面

And from that, calculate their... their speed,

这样就可以计算他们的速度

and perhaps try and relate

还可以试着将它

it to how fast that would be for a human.

换算成人类相应的速度

Like me.

以我为例

Silver ants are expert navigators,

银蚁是专业的导航员

using the angle of the sun to calculate their position.

利用太阳高度角来计算方位

But for our team,

但对我们的组员来说

even basic mental tasks are becoming a challenge.

即使是最基础的脑力劳动也成了难题

1 scorpion   

n.蝎子，心黑的人，蝎子鞭

参考例句：

• The scorpion has a sting that can be deadly.蝎子有可以致命的螫针。
• The scorpion has a sting that can be deadly.蝎子有可以致命的螫针。

2 alongside   

adv.在旁边；prep.和...在一起，在...旁边

参考例句：

• There was a butcher's shop alongside the theatre.剧院旁边有一家肉店。
• Alongside of him stood his uncle.他的身旁站着他叔叔。