Near the end of our trip, Reij and I drove north into Mali, up a winding road that led to the cliffs of Bandiagara.
就在我们的旅行接近尾声时，瑞什和我驱车去往北部的马里，穿过一段曲折的道路，来到加拉的悬崖峭壁。There was no cliff-edge vertiginous quality, no claustrophobia, no killing acoustic, no confusing of atmosphere with noise.
这里没有悬崖峭壁般头晕目眩，没有幽闭，没有使人疲惫的声响，没有噪音的混乱。Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice.
在不可能之前命运也有它的悬崖峭壁。越过这些峭壁，生命就只是一个无底深渊了。Around the island the cliffs rise out of the cold sea without the courtesy of a beach.
岛的四周都是从阴冷的大海中拱起的悬崖峭壁，找不到一块象样的海滩。What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliff?
是什么使你们抛开求生的天性，冒着生命危险去夺取这些悬崖峭壁？。And the scientists, geologists always tells me that the real interesting science, the science-rich sites, are always at the cliffs.
科学家们和地质学家们经常告诉我，真正有趣的科学、富含科学知识的地点就是在悬崖峭壁上。Welcome to the state of Colorado. It's a land with a history of cliff dwellers, gold miners, railroad travelers, and homesteaders.
欢迎来到科罗拉多州，这是一片拥有悬崖峭壁、金矿、铁路旅行者，以及开垦者的土地。And yet, many of these escarpments hide sites where humans dispose of all sorts of waste.
然而，很多这样的悬崖峭壁实际上是人类倾倒各种各样的垃圾的地方。Further north, a string of villages huddles along cliffs reached by a quiet loop off the main highway to the Romanian border.
我们继续朝北，下了通往罗马尼亚边境的主要公路，再走过一段安静的环路，那里有几个在悬崖峭壁拥抱中的村庄。