On Antarctica, the world's coldest continet, the average high temperature is -49 degrees?
? ???????南極洲;
Celsius.攝氏;
In the summer, the sun never sets, and in the winter, it never rises.
Keeping sane there is its own special challenge.心智健全的; 神志正常的;
The McMurdo Station is a research base perched on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, the world's largest body of floating ice.????????????棲息?????????????????????????????????????????羅斯陸緣冰
The station is administered by the United States and is the largest community in Antarctica.????????管理
Capable of supporting more than 1200 residents, the population of the station drops to 150 brave(perhaps foolish) people when winter begins in March.
?Their task is to maintain the station during the months of total night.?
The biologists, astronomers, geologists, and climate scientists who were there before, have gone, as any research is impossible in the brutal winter.殘忍的
Every day the remaining staff of maintenance personnel perform their routine tasks and make repairs when needed.職員? ? ? ? ? ?維修????????????全體人員
Sometimes they peer through the darkness toward their friends from New Zealand, at Scott Base, about two miles away.
Though most of the time, they're just voices on the radio, it's nice to have neighbors not too far away.
Together, they share a power grid and one coast of a dark forbidding continent.險(xiǎn)惡的
? ??????????????????????????????????????電力網(wǎng)? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??
Though the days are dark and freezing cold in the depths of winter, the moon will rest above the horizon for weeks at a time.
Its pale light illuminates the cold, craggy landscape as if acknowledging?a companion and reaffirming the bonds of life.??????多峭壁的??????????????????????????承認(rèn)????????????????????????陪伴
? ??????重申????????????????????紐帶
So even for those who live in the darkest part of the Earth, there's light.
