國家地裡雜誌（四）

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:07

Photo Gallery: Climate
A category F3 tornado howls across the South Dakota prairie. The winds of a storm this powerful can top 200 miles an hour (322 kilometers an hour), tear roofs and walls from houses, and even overturn trains.
意译：气候的图片集。一类F3龙卷风声嚎叫越过整个南达科他州的大草原。风暴是这个强大的，可以顶尖风速200英里1小时（ 322公里小时），撕破房子的屋顶和墙壁，甚至推翻的列车。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:07

Photo Gallery: Climate
India's monsoon rains, seen here lashing palm trees in Trivandrum, Kerala, bring needed water and welcome relief from the long, hot dry season. Unfortunately they may also bring flooding and devastating outbreaks of disease.
意译：气候的图片集。印度的季风降雨，在这里看到的鞭挞的棕榈树在特里凡得琅，喀拉拉邦，带来所需的水和欢迎长期来雨，干热季节。可惜它们也可能带来洪水和破坏性的疾病暴发。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:07

Photo Gallery: Climate
A rainbow brightens the sky above the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains in Mexico. The arc, which is created when sunlight is refracted and reflected by water in the air, displays all the colors of visible light.
意译：气候的图片集。一道彩虹照亮塞拉利昂母亲山以西的上方在墨西哥。那弓形，这是建立的阳光折射和所反映的雨水在空气中，显示所有的颜色的可见光。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:08

Photo Gallery: Climate
Twilight falls on Gozo island off the Maltese coast. Malta enjoys a pleasant Mediterranean climate characterized by damp and cool winters and warm, dry summers.
意译：气候的图片集。黄昏的来临在戈佐岛离开马耳他海岸。马耳他享有一个愉快的地中海气候的特点是潮湿的冬季凉爽和温暖，夏季干燥。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:08

Photo Gallery: Climate
As a storm approaches, a horse grazes on the vast expanse of the Mongolian steppe. The region's open grasslands are characterized by a dry climate and large temperature shifts between extreme heat and cold.
意译：气候的图片集。一个风暴的临近，一匹马放牧在巨大而辽阔的蒙古大草原。该区域的开放，草原的特点是干燥的气候及温度变化大在极热与冷之间。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:08

Photo Gallery: Climate
Grenada's clear waters and warm temperatures draw visitors to the Caribbean island year-round. In the tropics, the area between 23.5 degrees N and 23.5 degrees S, the sun's overhead angle produces little temperature variation between summer and winter.
意译：气候的图片集。格林纳达的清澈的海水和温暖天气吸引游客到加勒比岛国全年不变。在热带，该地区之间的北纬23.5度，南纬23.5度时，太阳在头上的角落产生的温度变化不大，夏季与冬季。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:08

Photo Gallery: Climate
Great Salt Lake's water level fluctuates dramatically due to seasonal shifts in inflow water volume and the rate of evaporation. The Utah lake is a closed basin with no outlet for water, so floods like those of the mid-1980s can be severe and destructive.
意译：气候的图片集。大盐湖的水位急剧波动，由于季节性变化，流入水量率和蒸发。犹他湖是一个封闭的盆地，与没有出路的水，使洪水像那些20世纪80年代中期，可严重和破坏性的。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:09

Photo Gallery: Climate
Strong winds blow the fine sands of Egypt's deserts into the Mediterranean Sea. The powerful storms of late winter and early spring often scour the nation's lowest point—the Qattara Depression.
意译：气候的图片集。强风冲击的优良砂的埃及沙漠到地中海。强大的暴风雨的冬末和初春，往往冲刷国家的最低点－Qattara消沉。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:09

Photo Gallery: Climate
Death Valley, seen here in a satellite image, is scorching—summer temperatures may top 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). The region also receives less than two inches (five centimeters) of annual rain. Despite these challenges, some plants and animals are able to adapt to Death Valley's inhospitable climate.
意译：气候的图片集。死亡谷，在这里看到，在卫星图像，是炎热夏季的气温可能会100华氏度（ 38摄氏度）。该地区还接收不到两英寸（ 5厘米）每年的雨水。尽管有这些挑战，一些植物和动物都能够适应死亡谷的恶劣气候。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:09

Photo Gallery: Climate
The Namib Desert is one of Earth's oldest deserts, and its dunes—which stretch to Africa's Atlantic coast—can tower nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) high. The region is so dry that it receives more moisture from ocean fog than from its meager allotment of annual rainfall.
意译：气候的图片集。该纳米布沙漠是一个地球上最古老的沙漠，其沙丘――其中伸展到非洲的大西洋海岸-塔可以靠近1000英尺（ 300米）高。该地区是这样干，它得到更多的水分从海洋雾比从不毛之地的分配每年的降雨量。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:09

Photo Gallery: Climate
A paraglider rides the winds above the Cerro Dragon sand dune in Chile's Atacama Desert. The coastal desert occupies a long strip between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains. Parts of it have never had a recorded rainfall.
意译：气候的图片集。一个滑翔伞乘风在cerro龙沙丘在智利的阿塔卡马沙漠之上。沿海沙漠中占有一个长带之间的太平洋和安第斯山脉之间。其中部分它从未有过降雨量的记录。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:10

Photo Gallery: Climate
Spring flowers signal the change of seasons on Germany's Rugen Island. Temperate climates, like that of the Baltic Sea, experience four very distinct seasons each year.
意译：气候的图片集。春天花开信号的变化，季节在德国的Rugen岛屿。温带的气候一样，像波罗的海的经验四季分明每年不变。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:10

Photo Gallery: Climate
Vermont's outstanding array of fall foliage is highlighted by the colorful sugar maple. Broadleaf plants shed their leaves each year in preparation for winter, but variable temperatures and moisture determine how spectacular each annual show will be.
意译：气候的图片集。佛蒙特州的突出排列秋季赏叶，是突出了丰富多彩的糖枫树。阔叶植物叶片脱落为每年准备过冬，但变化的温度和湿度决定如何壮观和引人入胜，每年一次的展览将于适时举行。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:10

Photo of the Day
April 25, 2008
Red-and-Green Macaws, Bolivia, 2000
Photograph by Joel Sartore
A mated pair of red-and-green macaws soars above the forest in Bolivia's Madidi National Park. These long-lived birds mate for life, and couples spend nearly every minute together.
译文：红绿金刚鹦鹉，玻利维亚，2000年。
一对红绿金刚鹦鹉高飞在玻利维亚的森林潮湿的国家公园之上。这些长命的鸟结成配偶终身，这成双成对的金刚鹦鹉几乎是每一分钟在一起。
引自：“美国国家地理杂志”，当天的图片。（2008-4-25）

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:11

Photo Gallery: Petra, Jordan
Reclining on a rooftop carved two millennia ago, a Bedouin surveys the realm of the Nabataeans, whose ancient capital beckons from the sands of southern Jordan. Forgotten for centuries, Petra still echoes with mysteries of the past; this immense building, Al Deir (the Monastery), was probably a Nabataean shrine.
意译：佩特拉，约旦图片集。放置在屋顶上的雕刻已经两千年前，一个贝多因人测量Nabataeans的领域，那些人的远古首都召唤来自南部的约旦沙滩。已经忘记多少个世纪，佩特拉依然模仿那神秘的过去，这个广大的建筑，Al Deir（修道院），或许是一个Nabataean神殿。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:11

Photo Gallery: Petra, Jordan
A crossroads for the caravan trade, Petra prospered and built a modest empire. By A.D. 106, when Rome annexed it and expanded a Nabataean theater carved from its cliffs, 30,000 lived in the city.
意译：佩特拉，约旦图片集。一个十字路口为沙漠的商队贸易，佩特拉是兴隆的建筑为一个适度的帝国。在公元106年，当罗马帝国吞并后还扩张Nabataean剧场雕刻在它的悬崖上，三万人生活在这个城市。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:11

Photo Gallery: Petra, Jordan
Petra抯 heyday ended when the Romans rerouted trade in the second century A.D., sending the city into a long decline. In a fifth-century Byzantine church archaeologists found detailed mosaics.
意译：佩特拉，约旦图片集。佩特拉全盛时期结束当罗马人变更旅程在公元第二世纪，神赐给这城市进入一个长期的衰落。到十五世纪拜占庭人教派考古学家发现详细的镶嵌图案。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:11

Photo Gallery: Petra, Jordan
Imhiylah al-Bedoul prepares a meal in the Petra backcountry, where her family spends the summer tending goats, using water from a Nabataean cistern. A lifelong resident of Petra, she raised six of her ten children in a cave near the city center. But after the city was made a world heritage site in 1985, the government moved the thousand-member Bedoul tribe to Umm Sayhun, a village of cinder-block houses.
意译：佩特拉，约旦图片集。Imhiylah al-Bedoul准备一顿饭在佩特拉的穷乡僻壤，在那里她的家庭消耗时间在田间管理和羊群，使用的水是来自Nabataean蓄水池。佩特拉的一个终身居民，她养育她的六个孩子们在一个洞穴中靠近城市的中心。但是后来这城市成为世界遗产遗址于1985年，政府动员搬迁成千人员的Bedoul部落到Umm Sayhun，整个乡村的房子都空了。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:12

Photo Gallery: Petra, Jordan
Lookouts on a ledge, Bedouins watch as a group of tourists admire Al Khazneh (the Treasury), whose function in Nabataean times is still unknown. Spurred by Jordan抯 peace treaty with Israel, tourism to Petra is up tenfold since 1991, boosting the economy but raising concerns about preservation.
意译：佩特拉，约旦图片集。监视哨设在一个架状的突出物，贝多因人注视一群旅游者羡慕Al Khazneh（宝藏），那些人的职责在Nabataean时期到今仍然不知道。约旦人受到鼓舞和以色列进行和平谈判，自1991年以来佩特拉的旅游观光业成十倍的增加，大大推动经济但是还要更加关注保存。

世人皆醉 · 发表于 2009-5-18 12:12

Gallery: Digital Photo Tips
Close-ups such as this photo of a crab spider capturing a small bee are even easier with a digital camera; you can check an image on the LCD panel to be sure you get what you want.
意译：数码相机图片秘诀。特写镜头像这样的照片螃蟹蜘蛛捕捉小蜜蜂是更容易了一台数码相机;您可以检查的图片， LCD面板，以确保你得到你想要的。

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