2007-10-01
Grand Staircase-Escalante Outpost, Utah, 1999
Photograph by Len Jenshel
Striated red-rock mountains capped by a piercingly blue sky overlook a weather-beaten outpost in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Part of southern Utah’s "red rock country," Grand Staircase-Escalante was named a national monument in 1996, adding a 1.9-million-acre (768,903-hectare) slice of parched, mineral-rich wilderness to U.S. protected lands.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Celebrating Canyon Country," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
在犹他州的大阶梯-埃斯卡兰特国家保护区,带有条纹的红岩山矗立在澄澈的蓝天下，俯瞰着脚下这片饱经风霜的村落。大阶梯-埃斯卡兰特是犹他州南部的“红岩地区”的一部分，在1996年被指定为国家保护区，将这片一百九十万英亩(768,903公顷)气候炎热，矿产丰富的原野保留区划分到美国受到保护的土地当中。
2007-10-02
Breaking Surf, Bora-Bora, French Polynesia, 1997
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
Lacy breakers lap the coral reef that rings Bora-Bora, an ancient sunken volcano 165 miles (266 kilometers) northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia’s Society Islands. Surrounded by sugar-white beaches, an electric-blue lagoon, and some of the clearest water on the planet, Bora-Bora is home to hundreds of species of tropical fish. Not surprisingly, it’s one of the world’s top spots for divers.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course," June 1997, National Geographic magazine)
蕾丝花边般的浪花轻拍着环绕在波拉波拉岛四周的珊瑚礁，这里是一座古老的死火山，位于法属波利尼西亚社会群岛中大溪地岛的西北165 英里(266公里)。波拉波拉岛有着白糖似的沙滩，铁蓝色的礁湖，还有世界上最清澈的海水，是数百种热带鱼类的产地。毫不奇怪，这里也是世界上最热门的潜水胜地之一。
2007-10-03
Flooded Alley, India, 2007
Photograph by John Stanmeyer
A man sloshes through a Kolkata (Calcutta) alley full of water turned purple from dying clothes. Standing water like this gives malarial mosquitoes the perfect place to breed. Pushed out of northern temperate zones by DDT spraying and the draining of wetlands half a century ago, malaria remains entrenched in the humid tropics of Asia. Monsoon rains and poor drainage enable the disease to thrive in many Indian cities.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Malaria: Bedlam in the Blood," July 2007, National Geographic magazine)
在加尔各答的一条胡同里，一名男子正在因染布而变成紫色的水中行走。这种死水会孳生大量的疟蚊。虽然在半个世纪前，在北方的温带地区通过喷洒DDT和排干沼泽的办法已经消灭了疟疾，但其在亚洲潮湿的热带地区却仍根深蒂固。季风降雨以及排水不畅，使得这种疾病仍在印度的许多城市中肆虐。
2007-10-04
Lioness at Borehole, South Africa, 1996
Photograph by Chris Johns
A lioness drinks from a rock-ringed borehole in Kalahari-Gemsbok National Park, a 3,700-square-mile (9,600-square-kilometer) slice of desert in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province. Lions had all but disappeared from South Africa by the turn of the 20th century due to unbridled hunting, but the seeds of a remarkable comeback were planted in the 1890s with the country’s first game reserves.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Place for Parks in the New South Africa," July 1996, National Geographic magazine)
喀拉哈里大羚羊国家公园里，一头母狮子正在一个岩石围起的水塘边饮水，这个公园建在南非北部开普省的一片3,700平方英里(9,600平方米)的沙漠之中。在二十世纪之交，南非的狮子遭到大肆捕杀，几乎消失殆尽。但在十九世纪九十年代建立的首个国家动物保护区，已取得了显著的成效。
2007-10-05
Ténéré Paraglider, Niger, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmetz
A paraglider casts a shadow over the dunes of Niger’s Ténéré desert. A south-central tract of the Sahara, the 150,000-square-mile (400,000-square-kilometer) Ténéré is one of Africa’s most forbidding regions. Hot, dusty harmattan winds blow across the bone-dry desert, which receives an annual rainfall of about 1 inch (25 millimeters).
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Journey to the Heart of the Sahara," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)
在尼日尔的泰内雷沙漠中，一张滑翔伞在沙丘上投下了影子。泰内雷沙漠位于撒哈拉沙漠的中南部，面积达150,000平房英里(400,000平方公里)，是非洲最险恶的地区之一。酷热多尘的哈马丹风(一种沿非洲大陆西北岸吹送的干燥多沙的风)吹过这片极度干燥的沙漠，这里每年仅有约1 英寸(25毫米)的降雨量。
2007-10-06
Ilha Nova, Faial Island, Azores
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson
Sea water instantly turns to super-heated steam as it seeps into the active submarine volcano known as Ilha Nova, or "new island." Months after the volcano first erupted on September 27, 1957, torrential rains from the condensing steam continued to torment the villagers living near the new volcano.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A New Volcano Bursts from the Atlantic," June 1958, National Geographic magazine)
渗进海底活火山的海水瞬间就变成了过热蒸汽。这座火山被称为“Ilha Nova”，意思是新岛。在1957年九月27日这座火山首次爆发之后的几个月内，居住在火山附近的村民一直都在经受因蒸汽冷凝而形成的暴雨的摧残.
2007-10-07
Milford Mariner, New Zealand, 2001
Photograph by David McLain
The Milford Mariner, a replica of a traditional New Zealand coastal trading scow, sails through a blue-gray fog in Milford Sound.
The sound, part of Fiordland National Park on the southwest coast of New Zealand’s South Island, is surrounded by towering, jagged peaks strewn with waterfalls. The Mariner takes tours right up to (and sometimes underneath) the frigid cascades.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Action New Zealand: 12 Days & 12 Adventures on the South Island," May/June 2002, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
米尔福德水手号正在弥漫着蓝灰色薄雾的米尔福德湾行使，这是一艘传统新西兰沿海商船的复制品。这个海湾是位于新西兰南岛西南海岸的峡湾国家公园的一部分，四周环绕着高耸入云，错落有致的山峰。山峰之中散布着许多瀑布，水手号的航程就直到这些寒冷的瀑布前面(有时是下面)。
2007-10-08
Aurora Borealis, Arctic Circle, 2002
Photograph by Peter Essick
A leggy evergreen looms over a stretch of Arctic boreal forest as light from the aurora borealis paints the night sky emerald green.
These natural fireworks shows, also called the northern lights, occur when solar wind—electrically charged particles blasted from the sun—collides with atoms in the upper atmosphere over the Earth’s magnetic poles.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Boreal: The Great Northern Forest," June 2002, National Geographic magazine)
一株常青植物在北极圈的北方针叶林中独树一帜，隐现在被北极光染成翠绿色的天空下。这种天然的烟花表演，称为极光。太阳中的带电粒子爆发形成太阳风，当太阳风与地磁极上空的高层大气中的原子碰撞时，便产生了极光。
2007-10-09
White Pond Lilies and Canoe, Maine, 2000
Photograph by Lynn Johnson
A tangle of white pond lilies sits in the front of a canoe in a Maine pond. Pond lily roots are used in traditional medicines to treat a range of disorders, including skin wounds and inflammation, both internal and external.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nature’s Rx," April 2000, National Geographic magazine)
在缅因州的一个池塘里，白色的睡莲纠结在一艘小舟前面。在传统医药里，睡莲的根可用于治疗一些病症，如内部或外部的表皮创伤和炎症。
2007-10-10
Frog on Fern, São Paulo, Brazil, 2001
Photograph by George Grall
A white-handed tree frog stares at the camera from its perch on a fern in São Paulo, Brazil. There are more than 730 amphibian species in Brazil, 467 of which are endemic to the region.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Fragile World of Frogs," May 2001, National Geographic magazine)
在巴西的圣保罗，栖息在一株蕨类植物上的白蹼树蛙正凝视着镜头。巴西拥有730多种两栖类动物，其中有467种该区域所特有的。
Photos and English scripts are from Nationalgeographic.com; Chinese translation is provided by 东方猪。
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