For much of the past 15 years, with funding from the European Union, the Italian volcanologist has struggled to focus the scientific community's attention on Nyiragongo.(過去十五年大部分時間里，在歐盟的資助下，這位意大利火山學家一直力爭讓科學界的注意力集中到尼拉貢戈火山。)

"We expected Etna to return to activity in this period," volcanologist Boris Behncke told OurAmazingPlanet.(“我們預料埃特納火山在此期間重歸活躍，”火山學家波利斯·別涅克告訴我們《神奇星球》說。)

“The biggest problem the Indonesians face, ” said a volcanologist, “is getting the local people to believe what the scientists say.”(一位火山學家說，“印尼人面對的最大問題是如何讓當地人相信科學家的話。”)

"This is an unprecedented discovery," said Bruce Marsh, a volcanologist from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland(在馬里蘭的約翰霍普金斯大學任教的火山學家布魯斯·馬施將會對這一發現進行研究，他說：“這是一個空前的大發現。”)

I was appointed as volcanologist information for a database about Mount Kilauea, which is one of the most active volcanoes in Hawaii.(我被任命為火山學家，這是在夏威夷最活躍的火山之一基拉韋厄火山學家信息數據庫。)

Brian: no. I'm a volcanologist.(布萊恩：不會呀，我是個火山學家。)

"It's very common for the two to be linked," said Jonathan Snow, a volcanologist at the University of Houston.(“把這兩者聯系起來也是很平常的。”休斯敦大學的一位火山學家喬納森·斯諾這樣說。)

The fineness of the ash in this case is unusual, says Thorvaldur Thordarson, an Icelandic volcanologist.(冰島的火山學家托瓦杜？托達森表示，這次島山冰川產生的火山灰的細膩程度是十分不尋常的。)