Maracaibo has a population of 2 million people.

马拉开波有200万人口。

Lake Maracaibo is the stormiest place on the planet.

马拉开波湖是地球上 风暴最多的地方。

He was aiming for the nearby Lake Maracaibo, home to a colony of Spanish settlers he planned to overthrow.

他本来的目的地 是附近的马拉开波湖，意图摧毁西班牙殖民者的老巢。

Lake Maracaibo is 600 kilometers west of Venezuela's capital Caracas.

马拉开波湖位于委内瑞拉首都加拉加斯以西600公里处。

Yes. There is one called Maracaibo. This is famous. It's the oil city.

有。马拉开波这座城市也很有名。马拉开波是石油城市。

He said fertilizers, human waste and other chemicals flow into Lake Maracaibo.

他说，化肥、人类排泄物和其他化学物质流入马拉开波湖。

This involved two main targets the city of Maracaibo itself and the town of Gibraltar.

这涉及两个主要目标马拉开波市本身和直布罗陀小镇。

In Maracaibo, a once-wealthy oil city, two innovators have built small solar-powered and electric cars.

在曾经富裕的石油城市马拉开波，两名创新者制造了小型太阳能和电动汽车。

" We cannot catch a breath, " said 62-year-old vegetable seller Augusto Gonzalez in Maracaibo.

马拉开波62岁的蔬菜小贩奥古斯托·冈萨雷斯说：“我们喘不过气来。”

In the early 1900s, Lake Maracaibo was the heart of Venezuela's oil industry.

20世纪初，马拉开波湖是委内瑞拉石油工业的中心。

First came Maracaibo which did not prove to be difficult, since it had been mostly abandoned.

首先是马拉开波，事实证明它并不困难，因为它几乎已经被遗弃了。

The city of Maracaibo is the capital of Zulia, a state in the west of the country.

马拉开波市是该国西部苏利亚州的首府。

As a result of plastic pollution here in lake Maracaibo, many fish consume small bits of plastic called microplastics.

由于马拉开波湖的塑料污染，许多鱼吃进了被称为“微塑料”的塑料碎片。

Beltran Briceno teaches at the University of Zulia and is head of the research laboratory in the town of Maracaibo.

贝尔特兰·布里切诺在苏利亚大学任教，他是马拉开波镇研究实验室的负责人。

A three-hour journey from Puerto Concha, The lightning occurs above an area where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo.

从孔查港出发需要三个小时的路程，闪电发生在卡塔通博河与马拉开波湖交汇处的上方。

Like everywhere else on Earth, lightning at Lake Maracaibo is the result of opposing electrical charges that steadily build up inside storm clouds.

和地球上其他的地区一样，马拉开波湖的雷电 也是正负电荷作用的结果。在乌云中，这些电荷会稳定地形成。

Firstly, Lake Maracaibo lies just ten degrees north of the Equator, so there's a wealth of solar energy available to fuel the storms.

首先，马拉开波湖只有区区北纬10度，所以有足够的太阳能为风暴提供动力。

Instead, he decided to repeat the rating route that French pirate Francois Iolonnais did two years earlier in lake Maracaibo, a tidal bay in modern-day Venezuela.

他决定重复两年前法国海盗弗朗索瓦·多利尼在马拉开波湖所做的评级路线，马拉开波湖是当今委内瑞拉的一个潮汐海湾。

Yet nowhere can quite compare with Lake Maracaibo, where lightning strikes an average 250 times per square kilometer, giving it the highest lightning density of any place on Earth.

但是没有一个地方 可以和马拉开波湖相提并论，那儿的闪电的次数 达到每平方公里250次，是地球上闪电密度最高的地方。

Lake Maracaibo is a body of water in northern Venezuela, it is the largest in South America and sits atop one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the world.

马拉开波湖位于委内瑞拉北部，是南美洲最大的湖泊，坐落在世界上最大的石油和天然气储量之一之上。