13 unsolved mysteries that still need answers in 2015-
From a missing plane to a
vast city hidden beneath Earth, 2014 left many stones unturned. Although we
made many discoveries over the course of 12 months, some of them led to even
more puzzling questions.
從一架失蹤的飛機到一座隱藏在地球下面的大城市，2014年留下許多有待努力去解決之事。雖然在12個月內我們發現許多事，但其中有些卻導致更多撲朔迷離的問題。
Will 2015 be the year our
search for answers comes to an end? Here are the mysteries the world will try
to unravel in the new year.
2015年會是尋找答案結束的一年嗎? 下列為世界將在新的一年要試圖解開的祕密。
1)
MH370-馬航370失蹤
What
happened to the plane that vanished without a trace?
這架失蹤得無影無蹤的飛機怎麼啦?
正副駕駛
A crewman on a Royal New
Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion Rescue Flight 795 searches for debris from the
missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on April 1.
2014年4月1日紐西蘭皇家空軍一架P-3搜救隊795號飛機的飛行員，尋找失蹤的馬航370班機的殘骸。
A Malaysia Airlines flight
vanished without a trace while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March
8. The weather was clear and there was no distress signal from the cockpit when
the plane disappeared from radar screens. A massive search operation combed the
Indian Ocean, but the Boeing 777 was never found.
馬航班機於3月8日在從吉隆坡飛往北京途中失蹤。當飛機從雷達螢光幕上消失時，天氣晴朗，無任何災難信號發自座艙。龐大的搜索行動徹底搜過整個印度洋，可是這架波音777卻仍找不到。
After more than nine months,
not a single piece of debris from MH370 has turned up. Despite numerous conspiracy theories, we still don't know what happened to the plane. All 239
people on board are presumed dead.
九個多月之後，連一片小殘骸斷片也找不到。儘管有數不盡有關飛機的陰謀論的看法，我們仍然不知道這架飛機到底如何，而機上239人都被推測全部遇難。
2)
ICELAND'S VOLCANO冰島上的火山
Why
is Bardarbunga still erupting? 為何巴達布加火山仍在噴火?
Steam rises into the air
near the Bardarbunga Volcano on Sept. 2, 2014.
2014年9月2日靠近巴達布加火山的蒸氣冒出
The eruption of the
Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland began at the end of August and continues to this
day. The volcano has been unique in three main ways: the enormity of its lava
field, the amount of hazardous sulfur dioxide gases it has released and the
astonishing amount of sinking that has taken place in its crater.
從去年8月底到今天，冰島的巴達布加火山不斷地噴火。此火山有獨具的三個特點：巨大的火山岩區域、它所釋出有害的二氧化硫的數量、發生在火山口驚人的下陷量。
Bardarbunga created a 32
square mile lava field, which is the largest in Iceland since the Laki eruption
in 1783, and the Icelandic Met Office says it is “probably the third largest
lava field on Earth” since 1783. The gases released by the volcano have affected all of
Iceland at one point or another, the first time that has happened in 150 years.
The Met Office says the amount of sulfur released by this volcano may have
exceeded that of any volcano on Earth of this particular type.
此火山創造出一座32平方哩的火山岩區，它在冰島是自1783年拉基火山暴發以來最大的，冰島氣象局說，它可能是自1783年以來全球第三大的火山岩區。所噴出的氣體已影響了整個冰島不連續的定點，這是150年來首次發生。氣象局說，火山釋出的琉璜數量，或許已超過地球上任一座屬於此種特別形態的火山。
The eruption has caused
the Bardarbunga caldera to sink to 184 feet, swallowing a GPS instrument that had been installed to
measure the sinking rate. This is the largest amount of sinking, or subsidence,
at any caldera in Iceland in modern times.
火山暴發已引起巴達布加火山口下陷184呎，吐掉一個之前裝設在那裡的導航儀器，該儀器是在測量下陷的比率。這是現代在冰島上任一個火山口，最大的下陷量、或沈澱。
【未完】
Justin Lai 編譯
01/03/2015
