國家地理（二）

Photo of the Day
April 16, 2009
Polar Bear on Brown Soil, Svalbard, Norway
Photograph by Paul Nicklen
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
In Svalbard, Norway's Arctic archipelago, a camera trap catches a polar bear looking out of place on bare brown soil.

意译：北极熊在棕色土壤，斯瓦尔巴特群岛，挪威。
在斯瓦尔巴特群岛，挪威的北极群岛，一部照相机设圈套捕获一只北极熊在注视着露出棕色土壤的地方。

Photo of the Day
April 17, 2009
Green Roof, New York City
Photograph by Diane Cooke and Len Jenshel
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
Some green roofs can be far simpler to create than traditional roof gardens. Volunteers from Cook + Fox installed the New York City architectural firm’s roof themselves using Green Paks. The polyethylene bags, marketed by St. Louis-based Green Roof Blocks, contain low-maintenance plants and can be laid out with no preparation beyond rolling out a layer of waterproof material that controls drainage and blocks the intrusion of roots into roof structures.

意译：屋顶绿化，纽约市。
一些绿化屋顶可以简单得多，创造比传统屋顶花园。志愿人员来自库克+福克斯安装纽约市的建筑公司的屋顶本身使用绿色巴基斯坦佬 。聚乙烯包装袋，销售总部位于圣路易斯的以屋顶绿化块为基础，含有低维护植物，可规定以外的任何准备推出了一层防水材料，控制排水系统和阻止入侵的根到屋顶结构。

Photo of the Day
April 18, 2009
Dry Ranch, Australia
Photograph by Amy Toensing
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
Simon Booth remembers when he grazed 250 head of cattle on his ranch in southeastern Australia—a sight his children Ryan and Claire may never see. A seven-year drought has the region, and its people, in its grips.

意译：干燥的牧场，澳大利亚。
西蒙住小茅屋的人记得当年他有250头吃草的牛在他的牧场位于澳大利亚的东南方，一个景观他的孩子赖安和克莱尔可能从来没有见过。这个地区连续7年的干旱，和它的人们，在抱怨。

Photo of the Day
April 19, 2009
Drill Pad on Wetlands, Russia
Photograph by Gerd Ludwig
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
A drill pad built on top of fragile wetlands probes for new oil reserves. Technology imported from the West is helping Russia's oil industry modernize, but Soviet-era spills and pipeline breaks have contaminated much of the region.

意译：钻垫在沼泽地，俄罗斯。
一台钻垫修建在易碎的沼泽地之上探测新的石油储藏量。工艺技术从西方进口协助俄罗斯的石油工业现代化。但是在苏维埃年代石油泄漏和管道破裂已经污染许多的地区。

Photo of the Day
April 20, 2009
Humpback Whales in Sunlit Water, Tahiti
Photograph by Jody MacDonald
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
When you swim with humpback whales it's not their size that overwhelms you but their beauty. You want to stay in that moment forever. These three humpbacks came over to me to check me out. They put on a beautiful dancing display that makes your heart stop and you wish for the moment to never end. When they were done ten minutes later they took off but left me with amazing memories. Tahiti, French Polynesia.

意译：驼背鲸被日光照射的海水，塔希提岛。
当你和驼背鲸游泳不是它们的大小压倒你而是它们的美丽。你希望永远停留在这一瞬间。这三条驼背鲸越过我牵制我离开。它们上演一个美丽的舞蹈表现，使你的心脏停止跳动和你希望得到暂时永不结束。当它们完成了10分钟稍后它们离开了但是给我留下令人惊异的记忆。塔希提岛，法属波利尼西亚。

Photo of the Day
April 21, 2009
Bonneville Salt Flats at Night, Utah
Photograph by Jim Richardson
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
The electric blush of Salt Lake City, more than a hundred miles (160 kilometers) away, brushes the horizon over Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.

意译：博纳维尔盐滩夜晚，犹他州。
电力把盐湖城弄成红色，远离超过100英里（160公里），擦过天边在犹他的博纳维尔盐滩。（译者注：博纳维尔盐滩是世界八大奇景之一）

Photo of the Day
April 22, 2009
Blurred Trees, Georgia
Photograph by Tim Grimshaw
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
Trees whiz by on the way to the Okefenokee swamp, Georgia, U.S.

意译：模糊的树林，乔治亚州。
树林whiz地作声在到奥克弗诺基沼泽途中，乔治亚州，美国

Photo of the Day
April 23, 2009
Porcupine Mountains Waterfall, Michigan
Photograph by Gowtham Shankara
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
This is the result of a ten-second exposure on a breezy evening from a suspension bridge in Upper Michigan's Porcupine Mountains. Thankfully, no one was around the bridge to induce camera shake. At the end of it all, it was very, very satisfying and yes, ten seconds—often a minuscule amount of time in our daily standards—did feel like eternity.

意译：箭猪山地瀑布，密西根州。
这是一幅10秒曝光在有微风的早晨的成绩来自于一条悬桥在上部的密西根的箭猪山地。满怀感谢地，没有一个人在桥的周围招致照相机震动。在它全选结束时，它是非常，非常满意的和是的，10秒---经常是很小的在时间的数量在我们的每日的标准---做想要的永恒。

Photo of the Day
April 24, 2009
Mt. Kilauea Eruption at Night, Hawaii
Photograph by Alvin Pastrana
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature
Lava from Mt Kilaeau flowed down the slopes via lava tubes into the ocean and the resulting violent explosions generated such large steam columns as to pull up waterspouts from the sea. This spectacular display continued into the night and also called down lightning from the sky.

意译：基拉韦厄火山喷发在夜里，夏威夷。
熔岩从Kilaeau山向下流动倾斜借助于熔岩管到海洋和爆发的暴力的结果生成如此大的蒸汽圆柱当作引体向上强大的水柱来自于海洋。这壮观的表演延续到夜晚和也被叫做向下的闪电来自于天空。