纪录片《全球怪象》 第3期：了解飓风

He's a hurricane scientist

他是研究飓风的科学家

who's turned in his white coat

脱下白大褂

for a blue jumpsuit,

换上蓝色的伞兵服

and left the lab for the MacDill Air Force base

走出实验室 走向美国佛罗里达州

in Tampa, Florida.

坦帕市的麦克迪尔空军基地

Because Jason and his colleagues

因为杰森和他的同事们

fly these aircraft into the middle of the weather madness.

驾驶这些飞机 飞向飓风中心

It's the best way to work out

这是了解飓风

what really makes hurricanes tick¹.

为何生成的最好方法

You can't get everything you need to know

只通过卫星或浮标

about a hurricane by just looking at it

对飓风进行观测

from say satellites or say a buoy² that might be measuring the storm.

无法得到关于飓风的所有信息

So we've actually got to fly into that storm.

事实上我们必须飞进风暴里

To get a better sense of what's going on,

才能更好地了解所发生的一切

whether we're dropping instruments into it

我们是投放仪器

or using radars³

或使用雷达

to really get a nice three-dimensional picture

来取得一张飓风发生时的

of what's going on.

真实三维图

You can't do that in any other way.

这是唯一可行的办法

1 tick   

vi.(指钟表等)滴答滴答地响

参考例句：

• The clock goes'tick-tock,tick-tock'.时钟发出滴答滴答的声音。
• They could hear the regular tick of the clock.他们能听见时钟有规律的滴答声。

2 buoy   

n.浮标；救生圈；v.支持，鼓励

参考例句：

• The party did little to buoy up her spirits.这次聚会并没有让她振作多少。
• The buoy floated back and forth in the shallow water.这个浮标在浅水里漂来漂去。

3 radars   

n.雷达( radar的名词复数 )；雷达装置

参考例句：

• Servos for large radars and launchers are either electro-hydraulic or all-electric. 大型雷达和发射装置的伺服系统，不是电动-液压式的，就是全电动式的。 来自辞典例句
• Range-velocity simultaneous pull-off is one of effective measures for countering PD radars. 距离-速度同步拖引干扰是对抗PD雷达的有效方法。 来自互联网