史上最大烟花绽放
The skies over Steamboat Springs, Colorado, erupted in red as the world's largest firework launched Saturday night at the city's annual winter carnival.
随着世界上最大的烟花周六晚在科罗拉多的年度冬季狂欢节上绽放，整个汽船温泉镇上空的天空都被点亮了。
The firework shell weighed almost 2,800 pounds, about the weight of a Toyota Corolla, and was 62 inches -- a little more than five feet -- in diameter.
这只烟花的外壳重达2800磅，跟东京花冠烟花的重量差不多，直径为62英寸—比五英尺多一点。
A team at Steamboat Fireworks launched the shell from a 26-foot steel tube buried in Emerald Mountain, which overlooks the festival.
这支烟花是从埋在翡翠山上的一根26英尺的钢管中发射的，山下就是狂欢节的地点。
Explosives propelled the shell out of the tube at 300 mph, and it rose nearly a mile in the air before exploding.
火药以300英里每小时的速度，把烟花推进出来，它在空中上升约一英里以后才绽放开来。
"We invested hundreds of hours into this project, and we anticipate that we will enjoy the satisfaction of this success for months to come," said project manager and financier Tim Borden, in a press release.
“为了这个项目，我们投入了上百个小时的时间，几个月前，我们就已经在期待着这次烟花绽放所带来的喜悦了，”这次项目的经理和财政主管蒂姆·伯顿在一次新闻发布会上说道。
An official from Guinness World Records attended the launch and presented a certificate to Borden and his team of three other men: Ed MacArthur, Eric Krug, and Jim Widmann, according to the press release.
吉尼斯世界纪录的一名官员参加了这次烟花燃放活动，并给伯顿和爱德·麦克阿瑟，艾瑞克·克拉格以及吉姆·维德曼这四人组成的团队颁发了证书，新闻发布会报告称。
The former world record for the largest firework was set in the United Arab Emirates in 2018 with a 2,397-pound shell.
之前的世界上最大的烟花的记录是阿联酋2018年燃放的一枚2397磅的烟花。
Borden told us that his team has been working to break the record for seven years and spent thousands of hours building progressively larger fireworks.
伯顿告诉我们说他的团队为了破纪录已经工作了七年，花了上千个小时的时间不断地打造出更大的烟花。
The team tried to break the record last year, but the shell exploded too early.
该团队去年就曾试图破纪录，但当时烟花绽放的时间过早了。
"When you think of it on the physics level, to get a ton of anything up in the air with one explosion takes quite a bit of thinking," Borden said.
”从物理学的角度想，要把一吨的物质带到空中，然后爆炸想想都很不可思议，”伯顿说道。
As one of this year's precautions, the group made a shell casing out of sixty miles of tape.
为了进行今年的预演，这支团队制造出了一个由60英里的胶带做成的外壳。
"It took a month of eight-hour days just to wrap this firework," Borden said, "Last year, we think the shell might not have been quite thick enough to withstand the burst that sent it into the air."
“仅仅为了包裹烟花就花了我们一个月的时间，这个月我们每天都工作八个小时”伯顿说道，“去年我们感觉那个外壳就不够厚，没法在燃放之前维持足够的时间。”
Their hard work paid off.
他们的辛苦工作迎来了回报。
Video shows the shell exploding in a massive burst of red that illuminated the sky and nearby ridgelines.
视频显示这么烟花绽放出了巨大的红色火花，照亮了周围的天空和山脉。
"People are already asking us, 'What's next?'" Borden said in a press release, "I really can't answer that question, other than to say, whatever it is, I hope to do it with this same bunch of guys."
“人们已经在问我们下一步呢，”伯顿在一次新闻发布会上说，“这个问题，我没法回答，但无论是什么我都希望跟自己的团员继续一起合作。”
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