CNN News:蘇必利爾湖里的天然溶洞

In the Southwest area of Lake Superior, part of the natural border between the U.S. and Canada, there`s a pristine chain of 21 islands. They are called the Apostle Islands, the jewels of Lake Superior. It`s a national park, rich and everything from human history to natural history. We recently showed you how a bitterly cold winter crusted over the caves and ice. Now, we are stepping inside.

在蘇必利爾湖西南部加-美邊境交界處有一條由21座島嶼組成的原始鏈條，這些島嶼被稱之為阿伯斯特爾群島，被看做是蘇必利爾湖的項鏈。這里屬于國家公園，景色優(yōu)美物產(chǎn)豐富，擁有悠久的人類歷史和自然歷史文化。最近我們向您呈現(xiàn)過寒冷冬天里洞穴和冰雪的畫面，現(xiàn)在我們要走進里面去看一看。

Over the past few months, more than 100,000 people had journey to the northern tip of Wisconsin, marching over ice covered Lake Superior for more than a mile each way, in a bitter cold. All because of what lies ahead.

在過去幾個月的時間里，超過10萬人來到威斯康星州北段，冒著嚴寒穿過冰雪覆蓋的蘇必利爾湖去一看究竟。因為那里有吸引他們的地方。

This is crazy!

太瘋狂了!

Dozens of ice caves, stretching for over a mile along the coast or giving people an experience of a lifetime.

數(shù)十個洞穴綿延海岸數(shù)英里，或許是在告訴人們時間的足跡。

That`s really cool.

太酷了!

It`s like walking into the Holy ..

這簡直就像行走在天堂里。

While some of the caves are massive like this one, which is called the garage, others .

一些洞穴很大，就跟這個一樣，所以把它稱之為車庫，其他的……

It`s kind of claustrophobic.

有些顯得比較幽閉。

Require some crawling.

需要一些刷新。

Getting into the little one.

正進入一個小的洞穴。

It`s well worth it.

太值得一看了!

Inside each cave houses, a unique icy masterpiece, all courtesy of Mother Nature.

在每個洞穴里面都是一副獨特的冰雪巨作，都是大自然巧奪天工的作品。

That`s a really weird pinkish hue.

這個粉色調(diào)調(diào)真奇怪。

The colors in there are really weird.

這里面的色彩都特別稀奇，特別獨具匠心。

The caves which kayakers flocked to every summer, are made of sandstone.

每年夏天皮艇愛好者們聚集的洞穴都是由砂巖形成的。

They are overlaying by a wet soil. There are springs and sips. And so, these rocks actually have little cracks in them. And so, there`s a lot of water that is coming down through and over the rocks and forming into ice formations.

這些洞穴表面覆蓋著一層潮濕的土壤，有小溪流過，表層還有很多小孔。這些巖石中間幾乎是沒有裂縫的，所以表層上的水會順著小孔留到下面，從而形成了這些“冰雕”。

The ice is starting to melt away in some spots. This is the first winter in five years the caves have been accessible and there`s no way of knowing when we`ll be able to see them again.

在一些地方冰雪開始融化，這是五年以來第一次在冬天進入洞穴，我們不知道我們不能不能再一次見到這壯觀的場面。