家园 Home.
是承载着童年美好回忆的地方 It's the place where childhood and memory live together.
但我童年的家园正在变化 But the home of my childhood is changing.
我们依赖的冰川正在消融 The ice we depend on is melting away.
我和孩子处境堪虞 前途未卜 My cub and I are in uncharted waters.
《北极熊》
我出生在高山的一个冰洞里 高耸入云 I was born in an ice cave, high in the mountains.
但是覆盖着海冰的海洋才是我们的家园 But the frozen ocean, the sea ice, was our home.
这里承载着我最早的记忆 Here is where my earliest memories are.
和双胞胎弟弟 也是我的好友 Playing with my best friend,
一起嬉戏玩闹 my twin brother.
妈妈在旁边亦步亦趋地 And she was never far from us.
保护着我们 Our protector.
寸步不离 Our mother.
我比弟弟更强壮 也更好奇 I was stronger than my brother. More curious.
但他比我更独立自主 But he was the independent one.
我喜欢整天黏着妈妈 I always followed Mom's lead.
妈妈想让我们见识外面的世界 And there was a whole world she wanted to show us.
要学的东西还有很多 There was so much to learn here.
她是我们唯一的老师 She was our only teacher.
我模仿妈妈的一举一动 I copied everything she did.
虽然不太懂 但我们应该是在 I didn't know it, but we were hunting...
追捕猎物 for something.
是猎物的气味 For a smell.
气味来自冰原下面 -A smell under the ice.
闻着味就让我垂涎欲滴 Whatever it was, it smelled good.
弟弟准备好扑倒猎物 My brother was ready to attack, too...
-Me, usually. 也就是我
妈妈一直努力在冰面上凿个洞 Mom just kept pounding through the ice.
我也想帮她 但是 I wanted to help her, but...
我正忙着呢 I was busy.
然后 我突然间回过神来 Then suddenly, the whole thing became clear.
我们在捕猎海豹 We were seal hunting.
应该说是妈妈在捕猎海豹 Well, Mom was seal hunting.
妈妈是英雄 She was our hero.
我们愿意追随妈妈到天涯海角 We would've followed her anywhere.
也必须这样做 And we needed to.
整个冬天公熊都在冰面上游荡 饿得饥肠辘辘 Male bears spend all winter roaming the ice, and are very, very hungry.
我和弟弟很可能会成为盘中餐 My brother and I would make an easy meal.
妈妈带领我们来到冰架 这是一片开阔的水域 So Mom led us to the ice edge, to the open ocean.
最头疼的是我们从没下过水 The problem was, we didn't know how to swim.
以前也并没有机会学游泳 We'd never even been in the water before.
水里很冷 It was freezing.
妈妈是海里唯一可以依靠的孤岛 And the only dry land in sight was Mom.
她知道我们不能就这样学会游泳 She knew we weren't going to learn to swim like this.
不断划桨也是很好的训练 And there was good reason to keep paddling.
我以为终于能在这里歇脚 然而 Finally, a place to rest... I thought.
我却想错了 And I was wrong.
我和弟弟感到体力不支 妈妈带我们爬上岸 When my brother and I could swim no more, she led us ashore.
妈妈叼着把我拖拽上岸 我从来没什么开心过 I've never been happier to be bitten and tugged by the scruff of the neck.
现在安全了 We were safe.
终于可以休息了 Now we could rest.
北极迎来了春天 太阳高悬在天空 Every spring, as the sun climbs higher in the sky,
白昼渐长 天气渐暖 the days become longer and warmer.
坚硬的冰川开始消融 Our world of solid ice starts to break apart.
我明白这是大自然的规律 I learned this was the natural way of things.
脚下支离破碎的冰面障碍重重 难以穿行 But this new, broken, shifting ground was hard to get used to.
要跟上妈妈的步伐并不容易 Keeping up with Mom was not easy.
她的一小步对我们来说 却是迈出了一大步 One small step for her was a giant leap for us.
现在她第一次留下我和弟弟 准备独自下海 And now, for the first time, she would leave my brother and me on our own.
她锁定了目标 She had a new mission.
我看着她一路潜游缓缓逼近 与浮冰融为一体 I watched her as she silently disappeared, becoming one with the ice floes.
她是伏击高手 Master of the stalk.
根据经验 妈妈知道 只有海豹待在浮冰上 Mom knew, from experience, her only chance at grabbing a seal
才是抓捕的唯一机会 was when it was up on an ice floe.
一旦海豹钻入水中 猎捕也便毫无希望 As soon as it was in the water, she wouldn't be able to catch it.
我们也帮不上什么忙 There wasn't much for us to do.
只能留在原地等她回来 We just waited for her to return.
但她迟迟未归 只是继续捕猎 But she didn't return. She kept on hunting.
第一个夏天 妈妈抓了很多海豹 Mom caught many seals that first summer.
我们吃饱喝足 别无他求 We were well fed and wanted for nothing.
那时 在冰盖上的家园生活 感觉很安稳 Back then, life on our frozen ocean home felt secure.
如今 曾经称为家园的冰层正逐渐消失 Today, the sea ice we once called home is disappearing.
海豹需要海冰来繁殖 Seals need the sea ice to breed.
而我们以海豹为食 We need seals to hunt.
我们是冰熊 We are ice bears.
没有海冰便难以生存 How are we to survive without ice?
多亏了妈妈 第一个冬天过得安全又温暖 Our mother kept us safe and warm that first long winter.
除了璀璨的极光滑过夜空 Other than the lights that danced in the sky,
半年的时间都是一片漆黑 it was total darkness for half of the year.
我以为太阳永远消失了 I thought the sun had gone forever.
直到它再次出现的那一天 I remember the day it finally reappeared.
我和弟弟都很喜欢阳光 My brother and I loved the sunshine.
可以再次探索新世界 We could go and explore again.
但妈妈打算把力气花在刀刃上 But Mom was going to put all that energy to use.
给我们安排了一个忙碌的春天 She had a busy spring planned for us.
因为春天要准备全年所需的食物 Spring is when we need to catch nearly all our food for the entire year...
而且要快 and quickly.
因为随着浮冰破裂 海豹也随之消失 Soon, most of the sea ice will disappear, and with it, the seals.
今年 妈妈对我们的期望很高 This year, Mom would expect a lot from us.
她希望我们真正了解如何狩猎海豹 She wanted us to really understand seal hunting.
不再嬉戏打闹 消耗旺盛的精力 No more spectating in between wrestling matches.
我也学会了永远不要放松警惕 I also learned to never drop my guard.
公熊是始终存在的威胁 Males were an ever-present threat.
这只公熊猝不及防地出现 And this one caught us completely by surprise.
饥不择食时 便不惜猎杀幼熊来充饥 He was hungry, determined, and relentless.
对公熊要避而远之 There is no safe distance from a male ice bear.
妈妈知道怎么找安全的 But there is safe ice.
浮冰阻止公熊靠近 And Mom knew how to find it.
她沿着通往海冰边缘的裂缝穿梭 She followed the cracks that led to the edge of the sea ice.
这里海冰太薄 体型庞大的公熊会陷下去 It was so thin here, a large male bear would fall right through.
最重要的是 我和弟弟一起 Most importantly, for my brother and me,
玩得乐不思蜀 we could play together.
海冰上的那段日子给我们上了宝贵的一课 In those days, every moment out on the sea ice taught us new lessons.
针对不同类型的冰 About the different kinds of ice,
不同的厚度 the different thicknesses,
如何策划完美的俯冲攻击 how to plan the perfect belly-flop attack.
我们尽情享受下午慵懒的惬意 It was an afternoon of pure relaxation.
弟弟也进行了额外的海豹狩猎练习 Plus, some extra seal-hunting practice for my brother.
在雪里翻滚擦干皮毛后 A quick roll in the snow to dry our fur...
我们又开始行动了 And we were on the move again.
那年春天 我们变得更有自信 We did grow a lot more confident that spring.
但是妈妈仍然是我们世界的中心 But Mom was still the center of our world.
今天玩乐的时间很少 Today, there is little time for play.
我们把所有精力都花在寻找食物上 All of our energy is spent searching for food.
我想教我的女儿在哪里可以找到海豹 I want to teach my daughter where to find seals.
以前的老地方 越难寻觅到它们的踪影 But the old places I was shown are harder and harder to find.
当夏季再次来临时 冰层似乎与往年不同 When summer came around again, the ice seemed different than the year before.
天气更热 冰也融化得更早 It felt hotter. And the melt came earlier.
然而碎裂的海冰让新鲜的猎物进入了我们的家园 But the ice break-up allowed fresh prey into our home.
这些不是我们所熟知的海豹 And these were not the seals we'd come to know.
而是白鲸 Beluga whales.
我以前从来没见过白鲸 I had never seen a beluga whale before.
不过 妈妈见过 Mom had, though.
她打算抓一只回家当晚饭 And she was set on bringing one home for dinner.
在水中捕捉猎物极其困难 Catching prey in the water is incredibly hard.
但她仍不断尝试 因为我们需要进食 But she was persistent. We needed to eat.
终于 有一只直接朝她游了过来 Finally, one swam straight at her.
又溜走了 It got away.
但她在教我们 每一次机会都值得一试 But she was teaching us every chance at food was worth taking.
夏天的太阳几乎有大半年总不落山 In summer, the sun never sets for half the year.
永无止境的白昼 为新生命的诞生带来高潮 The unending daylight brings a great wave of new life.
所有动物都迫不及待地沐浴在和煦的阳光下 Everyone rushes to raise their families in the warm summer sun.
即使新生命生机蓬勃 对我们而言夏天总是特別难熬 Even with all this new life, summer is always a season of hardship for us.
你需要抓紧每一个机会 You needed to take every opportunity.
港海豹看起来很诱人 The harbor seals were so tempting.
但是现在没有浮冰给妈妈助力 But Mom had no ice floes to help her hunt now.
只能即兴发挥 She had to improvise.
她静静窥伺着猎物 我认真观摩她的一举一动 I studied her every move as she stalked them silently.
一旦她的伪装被揭穿 But once her cover was blown,
这场追逐游戏 注定以失败告终 it became a game of chase that we were never going to win.
海豹有恃无恐地在附近游戈 They swam rings around us.
然而妈妈总是能挖空心思弄来一些食物 But Mom somehow was always able to pull some food out of nowhere.
晚餐是海藻 Seaweed for dinner.
最讨厌晚餐吃海藻了 We hated seaweed for dinner.
尤其是我弟弟 Especially my brother.
宁愿饿肚子 也不愿意吃海藻 He'd rather go without dinner than eat seaweed.
随着夏季来临 食物变得更加稀缺 As summer dragged on, food became even more scarce.
猎物就在眼前 却又鞭长莫及 It was there, but it was often very hard to reach.
每年夏季 鸟儿都会在悬崖上产卵 Birds came to the cliffs every summer to have their chicks.
为了躲避捕食者 每一寸空间都被占满了 They had to nest wherever they could, to be safe from predators.
领地宝贵 寸土必争 Every square inch was precious.
冰熊为了捕食可以不顾一切地往上爬 We ice bears will climb almost anything for food,
妈妈准备给我们演示一下 and Mom was ready to show us how.
但我们不是唯一饥饿的冰熊 But we weren't the only hungry ones there.
另一只公熊闻风而来 赶在她前面 She'd been outdone by yet another male bear.
光是攀爬已经非常危险 The climb was dangerous enough.
妈妈要避其锋芒 远离是非之地 Mom wasn't going to attempt it with him up there.
无数碎石在他脚下滑落 The cliffs were crumbling beneath his feet.
想在悬崖峭壁之间捕捉飞禽 简直难如登天 Trying to snatch prey that flies on a dangerous rock face is not an option.
他只能靠鸟蛋和雏鸟充饥 He had to settle for eggs or chicks.
悬崖底下 弟弟设法为我们找到了更好的一餐 Far below, my brother managed to catch us a much better meal.
今天算是小胜一场 It was our little victory.
夏天经常一无所得 Summer was often like this.
饥肠辘辘的冰熊为了能吃上一口 Ice bears forced to extremes by hunger.
不惜铤而走险 All for a tiny bite.
整个夏天能吃的都是残羹剩饭 All summer ever provided was scraps.
敢于冒险猎食的才能求得生存 Those who took the risks were the ones who ate.
陆地能提供食物 只是这里的夏天不适合冰熊 The land could provide food, just not for us. Not this time.
如今 夏天变得越来越长了 Today, the summers are getting longer and longer.
我学会在食物短缺时 寻找残羹勉强活下来 What I learned about finding small scraps in hard times has kept us alive.
但一只年轻的冰熊不仅需要生存 But a young ice bear needs to do more than just survive.
还需要成长 She needs to grow.
记得在第二年的秋天 I remember, in autumn of that second year,
我们有了一次意外收获 we had an incredible discovery.
这是一头被冲上岸边的鲸鱼尸体 A dead whale washed up on the shore.
这足以让我们吃上好一阵子了 This would keep us fed for a very long time.
但我很快意识到要吃上肉并不容易 But I quickly realized this was not going to be an easy meal.
鲸鱼皮太厚完全撕咬不动 Getting through the thick skin was nearly impossible.
皮下厚厚的鲸脂香气四溢 让我垂涎三尺 Underneath was so much rich blubber. I could smell it.
棘手的是怎么吃到鲸脂 But the trick was getting to it.
刚刚取得一些进展 另一头公熊 Just as we were making some progress, another male.
再次与我们狭路相逢 口中夺食 Come to ruin our good fortune, again.
我们只能退避三舍 It was best to keep our distance.
至少他对鲸鱼比对我们更感兴趣 At least he would be more interested in the whale than us.
我嫉妒得红了眼 I was so jealous,
看着他用强大的下颚穿透鲸鱼的皮肤 watching as he broke through the skin with his more powerful jaws.
妈妈认为机不可失 想趁机浑水摸鱼捞一把 Mom decided this opportunity was too great to abandon.
功夫不负有心人 Good things come to those who wait.
接下来的日子里 诱人的食物香飘十里 In the days that followed, more and more bears arrived,
越来越多的熊闻味而来 lured by the smell of the delicious feast.
妈妈不让我们靠近 直到它们吃饱为止 Mom wasn't letting me anywhere close, until they were all well fed.
大家都卖力地撕咬着鲸鱼肉 大快朵颐 It didn't take long for all those jaws to tear through the skin
尽情享受里面肥美多汁的的脂肪 and gorge on the juicy goodness inside.
我好想加入它们 I so wanted in on that.
等到饱餐以后 Once they'd had their fill,
它们下水洗掉粘到身上的残渣 they all washed off their sloppy meal with a nice swim.
我从来没有看到过这么多冰熊相聚在一个地方 I had never seen so many ice bears together in one place.
一起享受这场无与伦比的盛宴 不需要抢夺食物 In that moment, with so much food to go around, there was no competition.
大家可以尽情享受彼此间的陪伴 So they simply reveled in each other's company.
等到它们当中体型最健硕的熊也吃饱了 Finally, when even the biggest of them was stuffed completely,
我快步上前 I took my turn.
比海藻美味多了 Way better than seaweed.
我们历经磨难 After all we'd been through,
饱受饥饿和艰辛 all the hunger and hardship,
我们一家三口快乐嬉戏让我记忆犹新 I can still remember the three of us just playing.
那是我生命中最美好的一天 It was the best day of my life.
第二个冬天比第一个糟糕得多 Our second winter was much worse than our first.
那些风暴的力量 The power of those storms...
又是一番全新的挑战 they were something totally new.
冬去春来 只剩下我们两个了 When spring arrived, there were only two of us.
寒冬夺走了我的弟弟 The winter had taken my brother.
从此以后 就只剩下妈妈和我相依为命 From then on, it was just Mom and me.
冰与火的较量 这次是骄阳获胜 Fire and ice have always been enemies. But now, fire is winning.
甚至脚下的冰盖也开始逐渐消融 Even the land is beginning to melt beneath our feet.
昔日回家的路线也变得无法通行 The old routes through our home are becoming impassable.
这不是我所知道的夏天 This is not the summer I knew.
是另一个陌生的季节 This is some other season.
儿时的第三个夏季最为温暖 I remember the third summer of my childhood was the warmest.
海冰很早就融化了 The sea ice melted away early.
几乎不可能再捕到海豹 And the seals were almost impossible to find.
妈妈带我到另一个特别的地方去寻找食物 So Mom led me to another of her special places to find food.
岛屿的尖端有从未见过的新型猎物 The tip of an island, where a new type of prey I'd never seen
在等待我们 was waiting for us.
海象 Walrus.
这些长着奇怪獠牙的生物让我着迷 I was fascinated by these strange creatures with the strange teeth.
也可能是惶恐 我不太记得了 Or maybe it was "frightened." I can't remember.
妈妈带我来这里是有原因的 But Mom had a reason for bringing me here.
是时候轮到我亲自动手捕猎了 It was time for me to try my hand at hunting.
我蹲在一旁盘算哪一个目标更容易得手 I tried to decide which one would make the easiest target.
却发现都不容易 I decided none of them.
妈妈去海滩上方审视海象的分布情况 Mom went up to investigate the walrus gathered at the top of the beach.
成年海象挤在一起密不透风 Adults, all tightly packed together.
体型大得无计可施 Too many, and too big to handle.
接着她回到水中查看我的进展 When she came back down to the water to see how I was progressing,
我制定了捕猎计划 I had almost worked out a plan.
海象妈妈用前肢抱着刚出生的幼崽 Mother walrus, holding their newborn pups with their flippers.
幼崽作为猎物正合适 The perfect-sized prey for us.
若是想从水中的海象妈妈那里偷走幼崽 Just swimming up and stealing them from their mothers in the water
简直是痴心妄想 was not going to happen.
但也许海滩上会有幼崽躲藏在成年海象之中 But maybe there would be some pups hiding among the adults on the beach.
一只幼崽就藏在象群的边缘 There were, tucked in around the edge of the huddle.
我蹲守在那里 I took up my position.
他们似乎并不在意 They didn't seem to care.
直到妈妈向这边走来才惊慌四散 It wasn't until Mom moved in and created panic
他们开始跳入水中 that they started moving into the water.
成功了 It worked.
落单的幼崽被仓皇而逃的母亲丢下 A pup, left behind by a panicked mother.
好久都没有美餐一顿了 It was the best meal we'd had in ages.
我终于在狩猎中充当了一个重要角色 And I was finally taking a bigger role in hunting.
第三年冬天来临时 我的生活彻底改变 Just as winter was setting in that third year,
my life changed forever.
妈妈知道 我们是时候分道扬镳了 Mom knew it was time for me to make my own way.
她把毕生所学倾囊相授于我 She had taught me everything she could.
她才放我离开 So, she let me go.
从她身上学到的一切 我必须运用到实际中 Everything I'd learned from her, I would now have to attempt on my own.
这太可怕了 It was frightening.
世界从未如此空茫和孤独 The world had never seemed so vast and lonely.
没有她我不知道能不能活下来 I didn't know if I could survive without her.
在接下来的三年里 我独自徘徊 I wandered alone for the next three years.
但是那段日子里再也没有遇到另一只冰熊 I did not encounter another ice bear in all that time.
不过 我并不孤单 I wasn't really alone, though.
妈妈在我心里 She was with me.
每一次经历都和她息息相关 She was a part of every experience,
每一个决定 every decision,
每一段旅程 every journey.
她是我生命中的一部分 A part of the bear that I had become.
她的知识帮助我度过了三个漫长而艰苦的冬天 Her knowledge is what got me through those three long, grueling winters.
接下来的春天 发生了不同寻常的事情 And then that spring, something extraordinary happened.
我遇到了另一只冰熊 I met another ice bear.
与公熊曾经相处的经历让我非常谨慎 My experience with male bears made me very cautious.
但他彻底颠覆了我的认知 But that old fear quickly vanished.
他很友善 He was friendly.
我们同龄 也都独自生活了很久 We were the same age and had both been on our own for so long.
难得像无忧无虑的幼崽一样打闹 We just played together like carefree cubs the whole day.
还去了我最爱的地方 We ran off to my favorite spot.
我和弟弟曾经一起玩耍的冰架 The ice edge, where I used to play with my brother.
那天 我意识到并不需要畏惧所有的公熊 That day, I realized not all male bears had to be feared.
正如他突然地到来 他又突然地走了 Just as suddenly as he'd arrived, he was on his way again.
我们只是两只某天在无边冰川中偶然相遇的年轻冰熊 We were just two young bears who met one day
in the middle of the boundless ice.
同年春天 我新建立的信心将受到严峻的考验 Later that spring, my newfound confidence would be truly tested.
一头巨大的成年公熊 体型比我大两倍 A massive, full-grown male, more than twice my size.
他循着我的气味 He followed my scent,
在雪地里追踪着我的脚印 and tracked my footsteps in the snow.
这几天 他一直对我穷追不舍 For days, he shadowed my every move.
我一生都对公熊避之唯恐不及 I had been running from male bears my whole life.
但是这只公熊有些不一样 But something about this was different.
我感到一股力量 I felt a strength.
不再害怕 I wasn't scared.
很快我就明白 他在追求我 I soon understood I was being courted.
他陪我度过了很多天 He stayed by my side for many days.
直到最后 时机差不多成熟了 Until finally, I felt the time was right.
我不希望有別的冰熊过来找麻烦 I wanted no trouble from any interfering ice bears,
于是引领着他远离海冰 走进山里 so I led him far away from the sea ice, into the mountains.
这段漫长而艰辛的跋涉 It was a long, tiring trek,
让我们在到达山顶前不得不停下来休息 and we had to stop to rest before we reached the summit.
我们一起睡着了 We fell asleep together.
我知道我能信任他 I knew I could trust him.
云端之上 距离我出生的洞穴不远处 Above the clouds, not far from the very cave where I was born,
他给了我 从跟家人分开以后 he would help provide me with the only thing I truly desired
唯一想要的东西 since parting with my family.
属于我的家人 A family of my own.
我再也不会见到他 I would never see him again.
第二年春天 我的愿望实现了 But the next spring, my wish came true.
我有了自己的幼崽 I had a cub of my own.
只有一只 Just one.
但这让她更加特别 But that made her all the more special.
她让我想起了我的弟弟 She so reminded me of my brother.
养育幼崽 回首童年 Nursing my own cub, looking back on my childhood,
我觉得我已经功成圆满 I felt I had come full circle.
尽管面对种种挑战 我还是成功了 And that despite all the challenges, I had succeeded.
我妈妈也成功了 My mother had succeeded.
我们冰熊是伟大的幸存者 We ice bears are great survivors.
即使世界变化无常 我们始终能从容应对 We have always mastered the changes we have faced.
我们通过世代相传的知识来应对恶劣的环境 We have done so by carrying the knowledge of those who've gone before.
哪里能找到冰 Where to find ice.
如何找到食物 How to find food.
如何适应不断变化的环境 How to adapt to an evolving landscape.
但我对这个世界的认知正在接近极限 But I am reaching the limits of what I know about this world.
这些新变化在我看来几乎是不可逾越的难题 These new changes seem to me almost insurmountable.
我的女儿将学习如何成为 一只出色的冰熊 My daughter will learn what it takes to be a great ice bear.
她会忍耐 She will endure.
但对她而言 何以为家呢？ But what kind of world will she call home?
到2040年的夏季 北极的冰可能完全消失
我们今天采取积极行动 可以改变北极熊的未来
北极熊国际协会正在努力保护
北极熊家族和它们的北极家园
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字幕翻译：萨羽（SGM)