huo shan lie dao 10

Song 火山列岛 10
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.54] Measured from the sea floor,
[00:02.37] The wekiu's home is the tallest mountain in the world,
[00:06.52] Sbout a kilometre taller than Everest
[00:09.78] But it won't hold this record forever
[00:12.32] After millions of years of growth,
[00:14.86] This mountain is slowly but surely losing height
[00:18.44] At a rate of 20 centimetres every 100 years
[00:22.75] In fact, it's so massive that it's buckling the sea floor beneath it
[00:26.15] And sinking into the ocean
[00:29.61] Mauna Kea's future can be glimpsed in the Society Islands of French Polynesia
[00:36.14] The peaks of these islands once rose much higher than this from the ocean floor
[00:42.5] It's been almost 2 million years since their volcanoes first broke through the ocean
[00:47.53] But erosion is washing away their volcanic cores
[00:52.26] Now the only growth occurs just below sea level,
[00:55.85] On what was once the mountain's sloping flanks
[00:59.97] In the shallow waters around an island's base,
[01:02.85] Coral reefs rise towards the surface