In contrast, the GFS begins with a snapshot of a single moment.

相较之下，美国全球预报系统只能对某一特定时刻做云图拍照，进而分析预测。

Amnesty says it gathered satellite imagery of large-scale fires.

国际特设组织表示其收集了大规模火势卫星云图。

This process is reflected by the main characters in the film.

这一行为在了《云图》主角们身上。

Cloud Atlas leans heavy on the notion of eternal recurrence, which is often associated with spiritual concepts like reincarnation and karma.

《云图》依托于永恒轮回概念，这往往与轮回和因果报等精神概念联系。

And so Cloud Atlas makes its case for how the human heart, over and over again, will save the world in its entirety.

因此，《云图》一遍又一遍地阐述了人内心能拯救整个世。

To understand how the Wachowskis came to this, we have to journey back to their movie Cloud Atlas in which one of its characters presents the following revelation.

要了解沃卓斯基姐妹是如何做到这一，们必须回到她们电影《云图》中，其中一个角色揭露了以下启示。

This, I believe, is the question that lies at the heart of Cloud Atlas, directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis, and based on the book by David Mitchell.

认为，这正是《云图》核心问题，该片由汤姆•提克威和沃卓斯基姐妹执导，改编自大卫•米切尔小说。

In many ways, it's a story about stories: about the peculiar way in which we can convey a life experience from one individual to another; from one generation to the next.

从多方面来看，《云图》故事众多故事集合从个人到个人，再从一代到另一代，它描述了人类特有传承概念。

Solzhenitsyn wrote that; " One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies" , to which Cloud Atlas adds: " What is an ocean but a multitude of drops? "

“一滴真相可以胜过谎言海洋”，《云图》补充道：“没有众多水滴，又哪来汪洋呢？”

The ECMWF's computing muscle also lets it start its projections with a replay of the past 12 hours of weather, using 40m data points derived from observations collected by ground stations, aeroplanes, balloons and satellites.

借助其厉害运算能力，欧洲中期天气预报中心能对过去12小时气象云图做回放，从而使其天气预报更为准确。云图回放时计算机要处理4000万个数据，这些数据都是从地面观测站，气象飞机，气球及气象卫星收集获得。

This brings us to the second theme of Cloud Atlas which reveals the implications of this interconnectedness of cause and effect and brings us closer to answering the opening question of how beauty will save the world.

这就引出了《云图》第二个主题——掠夺性，也揭示了因果关联意义所在也让们更接近“美如何拯救世“这个开放性问题答案。

" Asperitas, " which translates to " rough and uneven, " is one of the rarest cloud forms  on record – and the only one to have been formally added to the WMO's Cloud Atlas in almost  70 years.

“Asperitas” 意思是“粗糙和不均匀”，是有记录以来最罕见云形态之一， 也是近 70 年来唯一正式添加到 WMO 云图云形态。