这儿离沃科尼亚约1英里,在明尼阿波利斯以西约40英里,是个宁静的湖边村落,像极了盖瑞森·凯勒(Garrison Keillor)在广播小说《牧场之家好作伴》(A Prairie Home Companion)里虚构的乌比冈湖小镇(LakeWobegon)。
It’s about a mile from Waconia, a quiet lakeside community 40 miles west of Minneapolis that is eerily similar to the fictional town of Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.
沃斯·托克湖是一个巨大的液态湖泊,它被封冻在冰层下长达四十多万年。
Lake Vostok is a massive body of liquid water buried under the ice for 400,000 years.
沃斯·托克湖也引起天文学家的兴趣,因为湖水被认为与木星卫星欧罗巴上,几公里厚冰层覆盖的海水类似。
Lake Vostok also interests astronomers because its waters are thought to be similar to those on Europa, a moon of Jupiter that has an ocean covered with ice that is kilometres thick.
尽管温度处于冰点附近,隔绝了阳光和外界的营养,沃斯·托克湖还是存在大量的微生物。
Although it hovers near the freezing point, cut off from light and outside nutrients, Lake Vostok is teeming with microorganisms.
一个雾蒙蒙的清晨,渔夫彼得·维莫尔沿着哈尔·斯塔特村河岸运送包括青年曼纽尔·沃勒在内的船员时,唤醒了哈尔施塔特尔湖。
Early one foggy morning, fisherman Peter Wimmer leaves a wake in lake Hallstattersee as he motors his crew, including young Manuel Wallner, along the shoreside village of Hallstatt.
一个雾蒙蒙的清晨,渔夫彼得·维莫尔沿着哈尔·斯塔特村河岸运送包括青年曼纽尔·沃勒在内的船员时,唤醒了哈尔施塔特尔湖。
Early one foggy morning, fisherman Peter Wimmer leaves a wake in lake Hallstattersee as he motors his crew, including young Manuel Wallner, along the shoreside village of Hallstatt.
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