The eruption of the volcano was an unexpected cataclysm.

火山爆发是一场意外灾难。

A cataclysm will come to be known by a biblical name, the Exodus.

这场大变动可比圣经中的《出埃及记》。

And each time it did erupt, it caused massive, world-altering cataclysms.

每次爆发，都会造成巨大的、改变世界的大灾难。

It's tragic for sure, but not exactly a world-ending cataclysm.

这当然是悲剧，但并不是毁灭世界的大灾难。

So a squall over the Yorkshire Moors turns into a no-holds-barred Alpine cataclysm.

所以约克郡高沼上空的一场大风，变成了一场肆无忌惮的阿尔卑斯大灾难。

A few tens of millions of years after its birth, Earth suffered a cataclysm which almost destroyed it outright.

地球诞生后几千万年，经历了一场大灾难，几乎将它完全摧毁。

But strangely, this cataclysm from space was not the first massive disaster that the dinosaurs faced.

但奇怪的是，这来自太空的大灾难并非恐龙们面对的第一次大灾难。

But billions of years ago, a mysterious cataclysm destroyed the planet's atmosphere, and the water vanished.

不过数十亿年前，一个神秘的事件摧毁了这个行星的大气，水也消失了。

They suffer not through bad behavior or laziness but through some cataclysm not of their own making.

他们遭受的不是不良行为或懒惰，而是一些不是他们自己造成的灾难。

For the mantle to have got sufficiently hydrated, sufficiently " lubricated" , early in its existence Earth suffered a huge cataclysm.

为了让地幔得到足够的水分和润滑，地球在其存在的早期经历了巨大的灾难。