零下56度!我的媽呀,好像從來沒有體驗過!這連想像也想像不出來啊,肯定很冷的吧。出一趟門睫毛上起霜是肯定的了。零下50度還要堅持去上學,只為了以後能改變命運,學校和家長也還蠻支持的,苦了孩子們了。不過小時候吃點苦也沒啥,吃得苦中苦,方為人上人嘛。
Officially recognized as the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on Earth, the small Russian settlement of Oymyakon is probably home to the most resilient kids in the world.
作為全球最寒冷的永久居住地,俄羅斯的Oymyakon的孩子們可謂是世界上環境適應能力最強的了。
Can you imagine sending your kids to primary school (years one through four) at -50° Celsius? Well, in Oymyakon, that’s pretty much standard procedure, as the one school in the rural locality only closes when temperatures drop under -52° Celsius.
大家能否想像一下在氣溫零下50度的時候還要送孩子去上學的感覺?在Oymyakon,這可是司空見慣的事情了。因為當地唯一的學校只有在氣溫達到零下52度時才會關閉。
Children older than 11 have to be even tougher, as they get to stay home only when the temperature drops under -56° Celsius. Daytime temperatures around this time of year are around -50°C, which means that pupils of all ages have to brave the cold and get to school every morning.
年齡超過11歲的孩子們必須更加堅強,因為只有溫度到了零下56度他們才可以待在家裡而不去上學。每年這個時候,這裡的日間氣溫都在零下50度左右,這也意味著無論多大的孩子都必須直面寒冷,清晨照樣去上學。
「Local kids walk to school with their parents and often with dogs, too; pupils from other villages have to take a bus to get here. The bus ride takes from 10 to 18 minutes,」 local photographer Semyon Sivtsev recently told the journalist.
「本地的孩子們一般由父母和狗帶著去上學,其他存在的學生則需要坐車才能到這裡。校車需要10-18分鐘才能開到學校,」本地攝影師Semyon Sivtsev近期告訴記者。
「I was filming around 9am on 8 December, and the temperature was -51°C. How cold did it feel? I had to keep my gloves on which wasn’t very comfortable, but otherwise my fingers would have been frostbitten, and I could only film in very short bursts.」
「12月8日我早上9點鐘左右開始錄像,當時的溫度是零下51度,冷到什麼程度呢?雖然不太方便,但我必須時刻戴著手套,不然我的手指就會被凍傷,我只能在很短的時間內錄製視頻。」
In December, the sun rises at around 10am in Oymyakon, so at 9am, when school starts, it’s still dark outside, and the temperature is really low. The kids stay at school until 5pm, about three hours after the sun sets, so they have to brave extremely low temperatures on their way back home as well.
12月的時候,Oymyakon的太陽是10點升起,學校開始上課是在早上9點,外面還都是黑的,溫度真的很低。孩子們要在學校待到下午5點,也就是太陽落山三個小時之後,所以他們必須在極為寒冷的溫度下踏上回家的路。
Yakutsk, the capital of Russia’s Sakha Republic, and the coldest city on Earth, is not the most hospitable place either, but, it’s definitely not as extreme as Oymyakon. Primary school pupils when the daytime temperature drops under -45°C, while older students get to stay home at -48°C. All schools close at -50°C.
俄羅斯Sakha Republic的省會城市Yakutsk,是地球上最冷的城市,也是世界上最不適宜居住的地方。但這也比不過Oymyakon。氣溫達到零下45度時,小學生可以待在家裡,年齡大一點的學生需要等到氣溫低於零下48度才能待在家裡,整個學校會在氣溫低於零下50度時關閉。
Interestingly, -50°C isn’t that extreme of a temperature in Oymyakon. The small rural settlement is one of only two permanently inhabited places in the world that have recorded temperatures below −60.0°C for every day in January. It has a monument commemorating a temperature reading of −71.2°C (−96.2°F), back in January of 1924.
有意思的是,在Oymyakon,零下50度並不是最低溫度。這個世界上唯一的兩個永久居住地每年一月份的氣溫每天都低於零下60度,而Oymyakon就是其中之一。而在1924年,還有過氣溫達到零下71.2度的記錄。
So the next time your kids complain that it’s too cold outside, maybe show them what the children of Oymyakon have to deal with every winter.
所以以後如果大家的小孩抱怨外面太冷不肯上學,就給他們看看Oymyakon每年冬天是怎麼上學的吧。
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