纪录片《非洲》 第9期:喀拉哈里沙漠（9）（在线收听）

Golden catfish, only found in this one cave.

金鲶鱼 全世界只在这个洞穴里存在

They're the rarest and most isolated fish in the world.

它们是世界上最珍稀最与世隔绝的鱼

Life down here is as challenging

要在这下面生存

as it is in the desert above.

也和在上面的沙漠一样不易

There's no food,

此地没有食物

except the debris that occasionally falls onto the surface.

只有偶尔掉到水面上的残骸

And these catfish are totally blind.

而那些金鲶鱼是什么都看不见的

The only world they know

它们唯一知道的

is the one they sense through touch.

是通过触觉感受到的世界

A blind fish living in perpetual darkness,

生存在永恒黑暗中的盲鱼

deep beneath one of the most arid regions of Africa.

深藏在非洲最干旱地区之一的地底下

Such cruel irony.

多么残酷的讽刺

So much water hidden away out of reach.

如此多的水藏于地下 可望而不可即

Along the western edge of the Kalahari,

喀拉哈里沙漠西部边缘

the land becomes so dry,

大地变得异常干燥

it seems impossible that any life could survive here.

似乎任何生物都无法在此生存