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20070401

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1986
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A spring blizzard blankets Calgary with snow. Born as a cow town, Calgary boomed with later discoveries of rich oil and gas fields in Alberta.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in the National Geographic book Traveling the Trans-Canada from Newfoundland to British Columbia, 1987)


卡尔加里,亚伯达省,加拿大,1986
一场春季的暴风雪覆盖了卡尔加里城。它最初是养牛的小镇，由于最近发现的石油和天然气资源而发展迅速。

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Loango National Park, Gabon, Africa, 2003
Photograph by Michael Nichols
A days-old Nile crocodile (Crocodylus Niloticus) takes his first swim through the tannin-stained Louri Creek, deep in the heart of the 380,000-acre (153,781-hectare) Loango National Park.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In the Land of the Surfing Hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)


Loango国家公园，加蓬，非洲，2003

一只出生才几天的尼罗鳄开始它第一次游泳，穿过深棕色Louri河：这里是在153781公顷大的Loango国家公园的中心地带。

注：tannin-stained不知如何翻译，字面意思是丹宁酸污染的，但按理说国家公园中心地带的话不会被污染的吧？

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Inishmore Island, Aran Islands, Ireland, 1993
Photograph by Sam Abell
A cow and two calves amble toward a village on the island of Inishmore. Forbearers of the islanders appeared in the 1934 documentary film Man of Aran, which is also the name of a cologne made of aromas redolent of the islands' traditional boat—leather, tar, wood, and the sea.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)

Inishmore 岛，Aran群岛，爱尔兰，1993
Inishmore岛上，一只母牛与两只小牛向着一个村庄缓缓前行。岛民的坚韧曾在一部1934年的记录片“Man of Aran”中出现，这

个名字"Man of Aran"也是一种古龙香水的名字，它闻起来好象岛上的传统小船，混合着:皮革、焦油,木头和海洋的气味。

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Long Island, Bahama Islands, 1986
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
A flock of black-necked stilts glides over the waters surrounding Long Island in the Bahamas. Considered to be the third island that Columbus charted during his first voyage to the New World in 1492, he named it La Fernandina, perhaps after his illegitimate 4-year-old son or after the Spanish monarch who helped finance his voyage.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Where Columbus Found the New World," November 1986, National Geographic magazine)


长岛,巴哈马群岛,1986
一群灰颈长脚鹬掠过环绕巴哈马的长岛水域。长岛是哥伦布的第一次“新世界”航程中所标注的第三个岛屿，他把它命名为La Fernandina，这名字可能取自他的4岁私生子的名字，也可能取自资助他完成航程的西班牙君主。

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Yosemite National Park, California, 1978
Photograph by Joseph H. Bailey
A ladybug walks along a wild lupine leaf in California's Yosemite National Park. These colorful plants were brought to North America from the Mediterranean as ornamental flora and quickly spread into the wild. The Yosemite varieties usually flower blue and white and grow abundantly in the park's sandy soil.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book America's Majestic Canyons, 1979)


约塞米蒂国家公园,加利福尼亚州,1978
加利福尼亚州的约塞米蒂国家公园中,一只瓢虫沿着一片羽扇豆叶片爬行。这些丰富多彩的植物最初是作为观赏性植物从地中海区域带到这里来的，并且很快就扩散到野外。约塞米蒂国家公园的沙质土壤中通常盛长蓝花和红花。

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Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge, Tennessee, 1975
Photograph by Bates Littlehales
Tennessee's Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge. Duckweed, the world's smallest flowering plant, grows on the surface of still or slow-moving water. It grows rapidly—sometimes too rapidly, occasionally covering whole lakes or drought-slowed rivers—and provides protection for water creatures, control of excess minerals, and a barrier against evaporation.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Wildlands for Wildlife, 1976)


Reelfoot国家野生生物保护区,田纳西州,1975
田纳西州的Reelfoot国家野生生物保护区。浮萍,世界上最小的开花植物，一般在平静或缓动的水面生长。它生长速度很快-有些时候是太快了，以至经常会覆盖整个湖面或缓慢的江面，这为水生生物提供了保护，控制了矿物累积，减缓了水份蒸发。

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Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, 1970
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
Hawthorne bushes ascend upon the remains of a split-rail fence on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. The tiny island, a horseshoe-shaped chip of land located 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Cape Cod, is home to about 10,000 permanent residents. That number blooms to about 50,000 in the warmer months when tourists and summer residents descend.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Life's Tempo on Nantucket," June 1970, National Geographic magazine)

楠塔基特岛,马萨诸塞州,1970
山楂树丛覆盖在破篱笆上。这个马蹄形的小岛位于Cod角以南32公里处，有大约1万左右的常位居民，到温暖的季节这里的人口会猛增至5万左右。

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Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington, U.S.A., 1989
Photograph by James P. Blair
Charred wood litters a partially cleared area in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest along Washington state's Cascade Range. The fires are set deliberately to clear the land of debris after logging and to facilitate new growth. Gifford Pinchot is home to Mount St. Helens, and was ground zero of the battle between logging interests and those seeking to protect the northern spotted owl.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Old Growth Forests," September 1990, National Geographic magazine)

Gifford Pinchot国家森林，华盛顿州,1989
沿着华盛顿州的Cascade山脉，烧黑的木头散落在Gifford Pinchot国家森林这一片被部分清空的区域里。这场火特意放的，目的是为了清干净采伐后满是垃圾的土地并可促进新植物的生长。Gifford Pinchot国家森林是St. Helens山的中心，也是采伐业与保护北部斑点猫头鹰工作爆发冲突的中心地带。

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Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1983
Photograph by Emory Kristof
Celestial skies stream light onto a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker as it cuts a trail through a frozen expanse of Arctic Ocean in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
The Canadian Coast Guard was part of a mission to explore the sunken wreckage of the H.M.S. Breadalbane, a British ship that went down in the 1850s while on a mission to find survivors of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to map the Northwest Passage.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Exploring a 140-Year-Old Ship Under Arctic Ice,” July 1983, National Geographic magazine)


北冰洋,加拿大的西北领土,1983
加拿大西北Territories北冰洋，天空美妙的光线照向了一艘加拿大海岸防卫队破冰船，它正开出一条穿过北冰洋广阔结冰区的小道。
加拿大海岸防卫队参与了探索舰船H.M.S. Breadalbane沉没残骸的任务，那是一艘在19世纪50年代在搜寻去勘测西北通道倒霉的富兰克林考察队幸存者时沉没的英国船。

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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1984
Photograph by James L. Amos
A shimmering travertine deposit forms a limestone terrace around a mineral spring at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.
This formation, called Minerva Terrace, formed as mineral-laden water bubbled over and evaporated, leaving a sparkling white calcium-carbonate crust. These deposits, which can accumulate at up to a foot (30 centimeters) per year, create a spectacular and constantly changing landscape.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Planets: Between Fire and Ice,” January 1985, National Geographic magazine)


黄石国家公园,怀俄明州,1984
黄石国家公园的Mammoth温泉中，闪闪发光的钙华深积物环绕着矿物泉形成了一个石灰岩平台。这种被称为Minerva Terrace的地层结构是这样形成的：矿物泉涌出并蒸发后，留下闪闪发光的白色碳酸钙外壳。这种沉积物每年可以生长30厘米，创造了一种壮观而多变的地貌。

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