夜色中的地球（2020）

more than a hundred kilometers high.
在100多公里的高空上
They blaze both night and day.
日日夜夜 绽放光芒
But we can only see them against the dark night sky.
但我们只能在黑夜的衬托下看见极光
By late winter,
到了冬末
the darkness starts to give up its hold.
夜晚越来越短
And the sun rises briefly above the horizon
太阳短暂升起
for the first time in weeks.
数周来第一次看见阳光
In the first hours of twilight,
暮光的头几个小时
the mother and her older cubs arrive in a frozen glacial bay.
熊妈妈和长大一点的幼崽 来到一个结冰的冰川湾
Whilst mom heads off to hunt for seals...
妈妈去捕猎海豹
the four-year-olds are free to play.
四岁的幼熊可以自♥由♥玩耍
But not for long.
但是玩不了太久
A lone bear is also in the bay.
一只踽踽独行的熊也在海湾里
Solitary polar bears can be highly aggressive.
独行的北极熊可能很有攻击性
But the cubs are curious.
但幼熊感到好奇
Approaching a stranger is risky.
接近陌生来客是危险的
A fight could lead to serious injury.
打架可能会导致严重受伤
But then, what seemed like aggression...
然而 原以为是攻击
suddenly becomes more playful.
突然变成了嬉闹
It turns out the stranger is a young female.
原来这只陌生的熊是年轻母熊
And this is all a romantic play fight.
这完全是打情骂俏
Polar bear rough-and-tumble.
北极熊版本的嬉耍
Such tender social behavior has rarely been seen before.
这样温柔的社交行为过去罕见
With her cubs rapidly growing up,
幼崽成长速度很快
this mother's work is almost done.
熊妈妈的任务快完成了
She's devoted the last four years of her life to looking after them.
它用过去四年的时间照顾幼崽
In the coming days, her boisterous cubs will leave her.
过几天 精力旺盛的幼崽将离开它
And next year, these young bears
下一年 这些幼熊
will face the long, dark nights of winter on their own.
将独自面对漫长、黑暗的冬夜
Ready? Yeah.
准备好了 好了
Filming polar bears at night would test the crew to their limits.
在夜间拍摄北极熊 是对摄制团队的巨大考验
And when a polar storm struck on night one,
第一晚 北极风暴突袭
they got a sense of the challenges they'd face
让团队明白了他们面临的挑战
in the dark weeks ahead.
在未来几周的黑暗中摸索将充满困难
It's about minus 30 out here at the moment.
现在大约是摄氏零下30度
And I think we're finding the limits
我们正在探索
of what the cameras and equipment can put up with.
摄像机和设备的极限
So, we've got a long ride home in this.
回家的路艰难险阻啊
With the storm chasing them all the way,
一路上 风暴不停息
they had to rely on their GPS to find their way back to shelter.
他们必须依赖GPS导航仪 寻找回到庇护所的路
The next night, and the search for bears was hijacked
第二晚 寻找北极熊的计划
by arctic conditions once more.
再次因为北极气候而搁置
Ready!
准备了
Currently stuck in the ice. All this is surface water.
现在困在冰面上了 这都是地表水
Where fresh water runs off the land and onto the sea ice,
淡水从陆地流向结冰的海面
it can melt, turning it to slush.
会把冰融化 变成雪泥
The crew became trapped.
摄制团队陷入雪地
Every move sank them deeper, closer to the ocean beneath.
每向前一步 他们会陷得更深 距离下面的海水更近
This is definitely the hardest shoot I've been on.
这绝对是我最艰难的一次拍摄
Just bad weather and no polar bears.
只有坏天气 没有北极熊
And things were about to get worse.
情况还要变得更糟
Overnight, the sea ice, which the bears need to hunt on,
一夜之间 北极熊捕食所倚赖的结冰海面
suddenly sheared off and disappeared.
突然断裂、消失了
Blown away, far from the shore, taking the polar bears with it.
带着北极熊 被风吹离海岸
Even in the frozen depths of winter,
即使在冰天雪地的深冬
the sea ice here is shrinking.
这里的海洋冰面也在缩小
A change in climate is making the future for polar bears uncertain.
气候变化令北极熊的未来充满不定数
Three weeks into filming,
拍摄三周了
the crew needed a change of luck.
摄制团队需要一点运气
And there was the smallest glimmer of hope in the unlikeliest of places.
而希望藏在最意想不到的地方
Well, we've gone looking for the bears today,
我们今天去寻找北极熊
but looks like a bear's come looking for us.
但似乎有一只熊找上门了
And made a beeline for our toilet.
它直奔我们的厕所去了
Wow. You can actually see teeth marks
哇 你能看到齿印
and the claw marks where the bear's been.
和熊爪的印记 说明熊来过这里
Could be a nasty surprise while you're on the toilet.
如果有人在上厕所 那真是一个“惊喜”
The next night, they caught the culprit red-handed.
第二晚 他们当场抓到罪犯
Luckily, it was unoccupied at the time.
还好厕所当时没有人
With bears about, things were finally looking up for the crew.
附近出现北极熊 摄制团队的情况终于好转
And soon, their immense efforts were rewarded.
很快 他们的巨大付出得到了回报
Day 20, and we finally got bears.
第20天 我们终于拍到北极熊
And not just one bear.
而且不止一只
Got a mother and two cubs.
一只熊妈妈和两只幼崽
Finally.
终于拍到了
Oh, my God. They look beautiful, man.
天啊 它们真美
After many arctic adventures,
一次又一次北极探险
the crew were finally able to capture unique footage
摄制团队终于捕捉到这些独一无二的画面
of polar bears under moonlight.
月光下的北极熊
And reveal the secrets of the arctic night like never before.
揭示了前所未见的神秘北极之夜