密苏拉

火灾预报员马克芬尼住在密苏拉附近的一个易燃地区。

Mark finney , the fire forecaster , lives in a fire-prone area outside missoula .

NPR新闻，埃里克·惠特尼蒙大拿州密苏拉报道。

For NPR News , I 'm Eric Whitney in Missoula , Montana .

在布法罗或密苏拉，一场20英尺厚的降雪可能得到一次不感兴趣的耸肩。

In Buffalo or Missoula , a20-inch snowfall might get a half-hearted shrug .

由于这些先驱者的努力，密苏拉洪水说开始形成了完整的脉络。

Thanks to these pioneers , the full story of the Missoula floods began to take shape .

实际上，阿尔泰山脉的冰坝湖曾经释放出的洪水，其规模足以和密苏拉洪水媲美。

In fact , an ice-dammed lake in the Altay Mountains had released deluges of comparable scale to the Missoula floods .

密苏拉湖泄人低地，轰隆隆、泛着白沫的洪水上到处是冰堰的碎片。

Lake Missoula spilled out onto the lowlands in a rumbling , frothy flood peppered by chunks of the shattered ice dam .

现在如果你从密苏拉城区仰望峡坡，你仍然可以看见一些平行线，那是被风浪雕刻出的古海岸线。

If you gaze up the valley slopes from downtown Missoula , you can still see parallel lines marking ancient shorelines carved by windblown waves .