The boiling River 1（15‘31）
As a boy in Lima(利马，秘鲁首都)，My grandfather told me a legend about Spanish conquest of Peru.
在利马， 我小的时候，爷爷曾给我讲了一个关于西班牙政府秘鲁的传奇果实。
Atahualpa(阿塔瓦尔帕 印加第十三代皇帝), the emperor of Inca, had been captured and killed.
印加帝国第三十三代皇帝阿塔瓦尔帕被抓并处死。
Pizarro (美[pɪˈzɑroʊ]法兰西斯克 皮泽洛) and his conquistadors(英[kɒnˈkwɪstədɔːz]16世纪侵占西班牙和秘鲁的西班牙征服者) had grown rich,
皮泽洛和他的征服者们变得富有起来。
and tales of their conquest of glory had reached Spain and were bringing new waves of Spaniards(英[ˈspænjədz]西班牙人), hungry for gold and glory.
他们征服西秘鲁的光荣故事传到了西班牙，带给了西班牙人对黄金和荣誉的新一轮渴望。
They would go into towns and ask the Inca," where's another civilization we can conquer? Where's more gold?
他们进入城镇，问印加人，哪里有我们可以征服的其他文明？哪里还有黄金？
And the Inca, out of the Vengeance(报仇 复仇), told them, " Go to the Amazon."
印加人，出于报复，告诉他们，去亚马逊。
You'll find all the gold you want there. In fact, there is a city called Paititi（帕伊提提）- El Dorado（黄金国） in Spanish made entirely of gold.
那有一座叫做帕伊提提的城市，西班牙语叫EL Dorado，一个全部用黄金做的城市，你将在那找到所有你想要的黄金。
The Spanish set off into the jungle, but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows.
西班牙人动身进入那片丛林，但是只有少数人带着故事归来了， 关于强大的萨满巫师，拿着毒箭的武士的故事。
of trees so tall they blotted out the sun, spiders that ate birds, snakes that swallowed men whole and a river that boiled.
那里的树木如此高大以至于遮住阳光，蜘蛛以鸟为食，蛇吞噬一整个人，一条沸腾的河水的故事。
All this became a childhood memory.
所以这些都成了我儿时的记忆。
And years passed. I'm working on my PhD at SMU, trying to understand Peru's geothermal energy potential,
很多年过去了，我正在SMU攻读我的博士学位，我试着去了解秘鲁的地热潜在能源。
When I remember this legend, and I begin asking that question. Could the boiling river exist?
当我回忆起这个传说，于是我开始问自己那个问题，传说中的沸腾河真的存在吗？
I asked college from universities, the government, oil, gas and mining companies, and the answer was an unanimous（一致的 一致同意的） no.
我咨询了大学的同学，政府，石油、燃气、矿业公司，答案是一致的”不“。
And this makes sense. You see, boiling rivers do exist in the world, but they're generally associated with volcanos.
这是合理的。你看，沸腾河肯定存在于世界上，但是他们大体上在火山附近。
You need a powerful heat source to produce such a large geothermal manifestation(表现 示威运动).
形成如此大规模的地热现象，你需要强有力的热源。
And as you can see from the red dots here, which are volcanos,
然而，如你所看到的这些红点，他们是火山。
we don't have volcanos in the Amazon, nor in most of Peru. So it follows: we should not expect to see a boiling river.
在亚马逊没有火山，在秘鲁也没有。所以得出结论，我们本没期待在此看到沸腾河。
1. Why did the Inca tell the Spanish to go the Amazon?
...They wanted revenge.
2. what did the Spanish expect to find in the Amazon?
...a city of gold.
3. To bolt out something means too...cover or hide it.
4. 选词填空
The Spanish set off into the jungle, but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall that they blotted out the sun, spiders that ate birds, snakes that swallowed men whole and a river that boiled.
5. 句子排序
1).Boiling rivers do exist in the world, but they're generally associated with volcanos.
2).You need a powerful heat source to produce such a large geothermal manifestation(表现 示威运动).
3).And as you can see from the red dots here, which are volcanos,we don't have volcanos in the Amazon, nor in most of Peru.
4).So it follows: we should not expect to see a boiling river.
5. 听 复述
Geothermal energy is produced by heat from inside the Earth.
