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

相较之下，美国的全球预系统只能对某一特定时图拍照，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的卫星图。

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

《图》依托于永恒轮回的概念，这往往与轮回和因果应等精神概念联系。

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.

借助其厉害的运算能力，欧洲中期天气预中心能对过去12小时的气象图回放，从而使其天气预更为准确。图回放时计算机要处理4000万个数据点，这些数据都是从地面观测站点，气象飞机，气球及气象卫星收集获得的。

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.

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

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

这一行为被反应在了《图》的主角们身上。

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，《图》的故事众多故事的集合从个人到个人，再从一代到另一代，它描述了人类特有的传承概念。

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，《图》一遍又一遍地阐述了人的内心能拯救整个界。

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到这一点的，我们必须回到她们的《图》中，其中一个角色揭露了以下启示。

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的海洋”，《图》补充道：“没有众多的水滴，又哪来的汪洋呢？”

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《图》的第二个主题——掠夺性，也揭示了因果关联的意义所在也让我们更接近“美如何拯救界“这个开放性问题的答案。

The lazy review would be Cloud Atlas if directed by David Lynch.

懒人点评就是，如果由大卫·林奇执导《图》，大概会是这样。

" 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” 的意思是“粗糙和不均匀”，是有记录以来最罕见的形态之一， 也是近 70 年来唯一被正式添加到 WMO 图的形态。

He previously shot Jupiter Ascending and Cloud Atlas for Wachowski, and won Academy Awards for his work on Legends of the Fall and Braveheart.

他之前为沃卓斯基姐妹拍摄过《朱庇特上升》和《图》，并因在《秋日传奇》和《勇敢的心》中的工作获得了奥斯卡奖。

Savanta Comres, a polling research company, came up with a word cloud and people sent in their thoughts.

民调研究公司Savanta Comres制作了一张词图，公众纷纷提交了他们的看法。