正如这本喜剧所表明的那样，在美国阿拉斯加的地下，埋藏有85.4万亿立方英尺的甲烷水合物。
As explained in this comic, there's 85.4 trillion cubic feet of methane hydrate buried under Alaska.
阿拉斯加和夏威夷过去是美国的属地。
由于他是在中西部发表演讲，他决定先说明美国历史上最严重的地震不是发生在加利福尼亚或阿拉斯加，而是1811年在密苏里州的新马德里。
Since he was speaking in the Midwest, he decided to begin by noting that the most severe earthquake in American history took place not in California or Alaska but at New Madrid, Missouri in 1811.
从佛罗里达到阿拉斯加、从地平线的一端到地平线的另一端、从东海岸到西海岸的美国人都跳舞。
We dance from Florida to Alaska, from horizon to horizon, and coast to coast.
当然，阿拉斯加不是美国的唯一能源产地。
Of course, Alaska is not the sole source of American energy.
甚至在美国，尽管多年反复争论，大多数沿岸海域和阿拉斯加的大部分地区仍然禁止钻探。
Even in America, despite years of debate, most coastal waters and much of Alaska remain off-limits to drilling.
这周，在阿拉斯加一个空军基地的演讲中，小布什重申了他的观点，美国除了直面他们别无选择。
Speaking at an air force base in Alaska this week, Mr Bush reiterated his view that America has no choice but to confront them.
在英国的炸鱼薯片商店，鳕鱼和青鳕越来越多地取代了大西洋鳕鱼；在美国快餐店，阿拉斯加鳕鱼变成了主要商品。
In British fish-and-chip shops pollock and coley are increasingly used in place of cod, and in American fast-food outlets Alaska pollock has become the staple.
在美国，阿拉斯加最高的冰川仍低于喜马拉雅冰川的最低线。
In the United States the highest glaciers in Alaska are still below the lowest level of Himalayan glaciers.
还有在7月18日，来自阿拉斯加共和党参议院TedStevens，提出一项法案，要求中国AT v制造者遵守美国的安全标准。
Still, on July18th Ted Stevens, a Republican senator from Alaska, introduced a bill requiring ChineseATV makers to adhere to American safety standards.
沙洲把楚科奇海划分为两个部分，左侧是从Kasegaluk泻湖，右侧是靠近近美国的阿拉斯加的北坡。
A sandbar divides the Chukchi Sea, at left, from the Kasegaluk Lagoon, right, near North Slope, Alaska.
我们认为，有害水平的辐射不会到达美国，无论是西海岸，夏威夷，阿拉斯加还是美国在太平洋上的领土。
We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the United States, whether it's the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska, or US territories in the Pacific.
写这些书的绝大多数人根本就不知道加拿大育空地区在什么地方，许多人对美国的阿拉斯加也是一无所知。
Most of the people who wrote the books had no idea at all where the Canadian Yukon territory was. Many did not know anything about the American territory of Alaska.
阿拉斯加位于加拿大西北部，距美国本土非常遥远，它是北极圈的一部分。
Alaska is on the border of northwestern Canada, far enough north that part of it is within the Arctic Circle.
同一年，美国的阿拉斯加也遭遇了一次9.2级的地震。
That same year a 9.2 quake shook the American state of Alaska.
阿拉斯加拥有美国最大的油田，该省北坡则藏有目前最大的天然气资源，有待于人们的开发。
The state has the largest oilfield in America—and, on its North Slope, the largest known untapped natural gas reserve.
美国最后的猎鲸人，阿拉斯加原住民身着海象皮大衣，沿海岸线泥泞的水域，弓腰，候鲸。
The last whale hunters in the United States, native Alaskans ply slushy waters off the state's coast in a walrus-skin boat.
根据美国地质勘查局估算，包括阿拉斯加海岸在内的北极海底蕴藏着全球未开采油气资源的22%，这些资源如今正因冰盖的融化离人们越来越近。
That has opened more access to areas holding about 22 percent of the world's untapped oil and natural gas, including deposits off Alaska, according to U.S. Geological Survey estimates.
加德勒补充到，“它们主要来自于加拿大北极群岛、美国阿拉斯加、南美洲巴塔哥尼亚和喜马拉雅山脉的冰川，以及格陵兰和南极冰盖附近的一些小规模的冰川。”
Most of the ice loss is coming from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Alaska, Patagonia, the Himalayas, and the smaller ice masses surrounding the main Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
阿拉斯加和夏威夷都是在1959年加入美国，他们是自1912年新墨西哥和亚利桑那加入美国以后第一批加入美国的州。
Alaska and Hawaii both joined the Union in nineteen fifty-nine. They were the first new states admitted since new Mexico and Arizona in nineteen twelve.
美国十七座海拔最高的山都在阿拉斯加，这些山包括北美最高的山--麦金利山，其海拔近6200米。
Seventeen of the tallest mountains in the United States are in Alaska. They include the tallest mountain in North America.
阿拉斯加是美国最大的州。
美国“对火山爆发式有很丰富的经验的，像在阿拉斯加和夏威夷，尤其是在阿拉斯加，”Hall解释说，“我们经常帮助航班远离这些灾难。”
The USA has "quite a bit of experience with (volcanic eruptions), in Alaska and Hawaii, especially Alaska," says Hall. "We frequently help the airline industry out in these events."
美国大陆(不包括远离本土的阿拉斯加和夏威夷)从大西洋沿岸到太平洋海岸的距离为4500公里，从加拿大到墨西哥的距离为2575公里。
The continental United States (not counting outlying Alaska and Hawaii) measures, 4,500 kilometers from its Atlantic to Pacific coasts, 2,575 kilometers from Canada to Mexico.
但阿拉斯加美国北极研究委员会(UnitedStates Arctic Research Commission)的劳森·布立罕(LawsonBrigham)并不认为财政上的收益是动人的。
But Lawson Brigham of the United States Arctic Research Commission, based in Alaska, is not convinced the financial gains will be dramatic.
但阿拉斯加美国北极研究委员会(UnitedStates Arctic Research Commission)的劳森·布立罕(LawsonBrigham)并不认为财政上的收益是动人的。
But Lawson Brigham of the United States Arctic Research Commission, based in Alaska, is not convinced the financial gains will be dramatic.
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