Bayou Salle is a small stream flowing into the bay of Atchafalaya.

Bayou Salle 是一条流入 Atchafalaya 海湾的小溪流。

Had it been left to its own devices without any human intervention, the Mississippi would have by now shifted its primary path over here to the Atchafalaya river.

如果没有人为干预，任由其自行发展，密西西比河现在已经将其主要路径转移到这里的阿查法拉亚河。

Acting as a spillway for the Mississippi River, over a million acres of  balmy lowlands make up the Atchafalaya Swamp, the largest wetland in the country.

作为密西西比河的溢洪道，超过一百万英亩的温暖低地组成了阿查法拉亚沼泽，这是该国最大的湿地。

In its climate  and diversity, Atchafalaya resembles northern Colombia about 58 million years ago, making  these swamps and marshes potentially suitable for even the largest cold-blooded carnivores.

阿查法拉亚的气候和多样性与大约 5800 万年前的哥伦比亚北部相似，这使得这些沼泽和沼泽甚至可能适合最大的冷血食肉动物。

Save for taking New Orleans and pushing it somewhere else like near the Atchafalaya where the Mississippi is bound to probably just end up anyway, sometime in the next thousand years.

除了把新奥尔良推到其他地方，比如阿查法拉亚附近，密西西比河可能无论如何在未来一千年的某个时候最终会流到那里。

However, some geologists believe that if a future flood is catastrophic enough, the system could be overwhelmed and the Mississippi will find its way over to the Atchafalaya and around New Orleans anyway.

然而，一些地质学家认为，如果未来的洪水灾难具有足够的破坏性，这个系统可能会不堪重负，密西西比河无论如何都会找到流向阿查法拉亚和新奥尔良周围的路。