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English to Czech: Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Geology
Source text - English These plates were named by the New Geologists. There was the African Plate, the Cocos Plate, the North American Plate, the Nazce Plate, the Iran Plate, the Antarctic Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate, the Australian Plate, the Arabian plate and the decidedly unfragile China Plates. Driven by convection currents or "cells" within the semi-liquid mantle of the earth, and pulled by their own weight, these plates move around relative to each other. Where their edges meet beneath the ocean, either a mid-ocean ridge or a subduction zone is formed. At mid-ocean ridges the boundaries of two plates are continually being pushed apart by action in the mantle. Magma rises into the gap, and cools to form sea-floor basalt. Mid-ocean ridges are therefore raised above the surrounding ocean floor, like the seam on a cricket ball. A subduction zone, by contrast, is where the edges of two plates are forced together, and the less buoyant plate slides underneath the other. There, the rock of the subordinate plate is pushed down into the mantle, where it melts and comes bubbling back up in liquid form, causing super-heated wounds in the crust. These subduction zones form the oceanic trenches: the Aleutian Trench, the Java Trench, the Marianas Trench. At the bottom of these trenches - the Marianas Trench is deeper than Mount Everest is high - the atmospheric pressure is so enormous that, were you to materialize at that depth, your body would instantly be compacted to the size of a tin can.
Translation - Czech Mladí geologové tyto desky pokřtili: byla tu Africká deska, Kokosová deska, Severoamerická deska, deska Nazca, Íránská deska, Antarktická deska, deska Juan de Fuca, Australská deska, Arabská deska a čínské desky. Poháněny konvekčními proudy nebo „buňkami“ v polotekutém zemském plášti a taženy vlastní vahou se tyto desky vzhledem k sobě navzájem posouvají. Když se pod oceánem střetnou jejich okraje, zformuje se buď oceánský hřbet, nebo subdukční zóna. U oceánských hřbetů jsou hranice desek působením zemského pláště setrvale odtlačovány od sebe. Do vzniklé mezery stoupá magma a po ochlazení se mění v bazalt mořského dna. Oceánské hřbety proto vystupují nad okolní oceánské dno jako šev na kriketovém míčku. Naopak subdukční zóna vzniká tam,
kde jsou okraje dvou desek tlačeny k sobě a ta hustší se zasune pod druhou. Hornina podsunuté desky je tlačena do zemského pláště, kde se taví a zase vybublává v tekuté podobě, čímž v zemské kůře vznikají extrémně horké pukliny. V místech takových subdukčních zón se formují oceánské příkopy: Aleutský, Jávský, Mariánský. Na dně těchto příkopů — Mariánský sahá do hloubky dále než Mount Everest do výšky — je atmosférický tlak tak obrovský, že kdyby se v té hlubině nějak ocitl člověk, jeho tělo by bylo okamžitě stlačeno do velikosti plechovky.
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Master's degree - Department of English Language, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
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Years of experience: 11. Registered at ProZ.com: May 2014.
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My current/previous clients: Novartis (Czech Rep.), Scientica, Madison PA (for Cisco), Pavel Brázda, Klatovy Gallery.
Book translations for various Czech publishing houses: fiction, non-fiction, biography, sport science, natural history, political science (Robert Macfarlane, Richard Askwith, Alex Hutchinson, Scott Jurek, Elena Ferrante, Cameron Stracher, Christopher McDougall etc.).
Editing and proofreading: Charles University Press, B Magazine, Czech National Corpus
Theatre translation: Anna Jordan
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Keywords: english-czech, sports, nutrition, linguistics, literature, medical, art
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