It's now thought that this ice dam repeatedly melted and refroze as many as 25 times over several centuries.

现在人们认为，这座冰坝在几个世纪内反复融化并再冻结多达 25 次。

First, a few leaks began to form in the ice dam, and with the weight of thousands of cubic kilometers of water pushing against it, one day... just boom!

首先，冰坝开始形成一些泄漏，数千立方公里的水的重量推动它，有一天......砰！

It was big, really big, Just like a stopper filling a bathtub, river water, rain, and melted snow backed up behind this ice dam for centuries forming a lake covering nearly 8,000 square kilometers.

它很大，真的很大，就像一个装满浴缸的塞子，河水，雨水和融化的雪在这个冰坝后面备份了几个世纪，形成了一个覆盖近 8000 平方公里的湖泊。

A glacial lake twice the size of Rhode Island emptied in just a couple days, and the torrent of water escaping the broken ice dam was equivalent to more than 10 times the flow from all the rivers on the planet.

一个两倍于罗德岛大小的冰川湖在短短几天内就被清空了，逃离破冰大坝的水流相当于地球上所有河流流量的 10 倍以上。