这十项 巴西全球无敌手（五）

Rainforests – The Amazon has some 390 billion trees, which adds up to half the total of the world's surviving rainforests.

热带雨林——亚马逊雨林有约3900亿棵树，面积占全球现存热带雨林的一半。

Rainforests 热带雨林

Trees? They got 'em here. The Amazon has some 390 billion trees, which adds up to half the total of the world's surviving rainforests and 16,000 different species of trees.

树木?巴西可多了。亚马逊雨林有约3900亿棵树，面积占全球现存热带雨林的一半，包括了16000种不同种类的树木。

More than half the Amazon Basin's 1.4 billion acres are in Brazil, including thousands of miles of the Amazon River, the world's largest river by volume.

总面积14亿英亩的亚马逊流域有超过一半在巴西境内，其中的亚马逊河绵延数千英里，流量为世界最大。

The Amazon is home to 1 in 10 of the world's known species, 20% of the world's bird species, 40,000 plant species and trees crucial to limiting greenhouse gases.

亚马逊雨林中的物种占世界已知物种的十分之一，包括世界上20%的鸟类和对限制温室气体至关重要的40000种植物和树木。

Grilled goodness – One of the country's favorite menu items, churrasco, involves meaty delights pulled off open-flame grills.

烤肉——巴西烤肉是该国菜单上最受喜爱的食物之一，从明火烤架上取下烤肉乃人生乐事。

Grilled meat 烤肉

Brazil is a realm of the senses, where everything is felt, smelled and tasted more intensely. That goes for one of the country's favorite menu items, churrasco, meaty delights pulled off the barbecue grill.

巴西号称感官王国，在这里，感觉、嗅觉和味觉的体验总会更加强烈。对巴西烤肉的感受也是如此。这是该国菜单上最受喜爱的食物之一，从烤架上取下烤肉简直是人生乐事。

Churrasco involves spearing slabs of beef, pork, chicken and sausage with skewers. When they're seared just right, the skewers are pulled out and the meat is sliced off in thin sections with surgical precision, unlike the jumbo hunk portions of American steaks.

巴西烤肉是将牛肉、猪肉、鸡肉和香肠切成厚片，串在烤肉叉子上烤。烤到刚刚好时，抽出叉子，把肉精准切成薄片而不是美式牛排那样的大块。

At the big steakhouses, called churrascarias, servers go table to table, wielding skewers sizzling with meat and carving knives like something out of ancient Chinese swordplay. One has beef, another pork, another chicken.

在大型烤肉店(churrascarias)，服务生挨桌走过，举着串着烤肉的“滋滋”作响的叉子和切肉刀，挥舞刀叉的架势仿若古代中国的剑术比试。一人手中是牛肉，另一人手中是猪肉，还有的是鸡肉。

The choices are tempting, but the diner's goal should be to stand upright afterward and walk out under their own power.

各种选择都十分诱人。但用餐者的目标则是吃完能站直了腰，自己走出去。