Photo of the Day
March 06, 2008
Iguana, Sittee River, Belize, 2007
Photograph by Tim Laman
On Belize's Sittee River, a green iguana poised to spring regards the camera from the corner of its eye. Home to the Western Hemisphere's longest coral reef and hundreds of acres of deciduous, evergreen, swamp, and mangrove forests, Belize is among the richest habitats on Earth, supporting wildlife such as tapirs, jaguars, pumas, crocodiles, turtles, and hundreds of species of birds and amphibians.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Mangroves: Forests of the Tide," February 2007, National Geographic magazine)
意译：主标题：鬣蜥，Sittee河，伯利兹城，2007年。
在伯利兹的Sittee河，一条鬣蜥（产于南美）泰然自若的从一角落跃起用它的眼睛关注照相机。居住在西半球的长珊瑚暗礁和数百英亩的每年落叶的，长绿树，沼泽，和红树森林，伯利兹是在地球中富饶的动植物栖息地，支持着野生动植物像貘，美洲虎，美洲狮，鳄鱼，海龟和数百种类的鸟类及两栖类动物。
引自：“美国国家地理杂志”，当天的图片。（2008-3-6）


Photo Gallery: Great White Sharks
New Zealand fur seals swim warily above a great white shark, the largest predatory fish in the seas. Unfortunately for them, seals are one of these sharks' favorite meals.
Photograph by David Fleetham/Alamy
意译：大白鲨图库。新西兰的软毛海豹小心游泳在一条大白鲨之上，这最大的掠食肉的鲨鱼在海洋里。很不幸的是它们，海豹是鲨鱼最好的美餐之一

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Photo Gallery: Great White Sharks The Latin name for great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, literally means "ragged tooth," an understandable moniker. Photograph by Stephen Frink Collection 意译：大白鲨图库。大白鲨的拉丁名字，Carcharodon carcharias,照字面意思“粗糙的牙齿”，一个可以理解的绰号。

Photo Gallery: Great White Sharks Full breaches like this attack are rare as they expend so much energy. But in South Africa waters full of baby seals, sharks attack from below with ferocious speed, propelling them out of the water with their catch. Photograph by Brandon Cole Marine Photography/Alamy 意译：大白鲨图库。全部突破像这样的攻击是稀罕的因为它们要花费很大的能量。但是在南非水域中有许多小海豹群，鲨鱼的攻击从下面开始用凶猛的速度，驱使它们跃出水面用来捕捉食 物。

Photo Gallery: Great White Sharks
Great white sharks, like this one, use an uncanny sense of smell combined with a unique sensory system that detects bioelectric impulses in the water to find vulnerable prey up to miles away.
Photograph by David Fleetham/Alamy
意译：大白鲨图库。大白鲨，像这只，使用一种离奇的嗅觉感观结合唯一的感觉系统那探测生物电的推动能够在水中数海里之外发现攻击的对象――被掠食者。


Photo Gallery: Great White Sharks
Near a seal colony in South Africa, a great white shark breaches, leaping for a decoy being pulled across the surface.
Photograph by David Doubilet
意译：大白鲨图库。靠近一个海豹群体在南非，一种大白鲨的分支，它跳跃是为了一种诱骗本质是越过海洋的表面往下潜。

Photo of the Day: Sunrises and Sunsets
Sunlight glints off a tranquil lake in central Arkansas. The site is near historic Arkansas Route 7, which goes through Hot Springs, boyhood home of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and continues deep into the Ozark National Forest, where signs warn that the road is "crooked and steep," and weary drivers can stop at a hillbilly trading post called "Booger Hollow."
意译：日出和日落：当天的图片。阳光闪烁离开一个安静的湖在阿肯色州的中心区域。 该站点接近历史著名的阿肯色州7号公路，那就是通过温泉，少年时代的家美国前总统比尔克林顿，并继续深入到Ozark（密苏里州的别名）国家的森林，那里的标记警告说：“该路是弯曲和陡峭的”，和厌倦情绪的司机可停止在山地人交易后，所谓“Booger山谷”。

Photo of the Day: Sunrises and Sunsets The sun sets on the first-century ruins of Nemrud Dagh, Turkey, millennia after it set on the ancient kingdom itself. Built by King Antiochus I in southeastern Turkey, the kingdom is one of the best preserved but least known ruins of the Late Hellenistic period. Its monuments are a story in stone depicting the king, his family and ancestors, and their interaction with the gods. 意译：日出和日落：当天的图片。夕阳西下，对第一世纪的废墟Nemrud Dagh ，土耳其，几千年后，它攻击古代王国本土。 建成安太阿卡斯国王一世在土耳其东南部，那王国是其中保存最好，但至少已知遗址的晚期是希腊文化时期。 其纪念碑是一个故事，在石材描绘国王，他的家人和祖先，和他们的彼此互动与神。 Photo of the Day: Sunrises and Sunsets "Splendor of the past endures in an Egyptian pyramid. Camels have provided desert transport in parts of Africa and Asia since ancient times." 意译：日出和日落：当天的图片。“往日的辉煌忍受在埃及的金字塔。自从远古时代那骆驼队已经提供了沙漠运输在非洲和亚洲部分地区”。 Photo of the Day: Sunrises and Sunsets "The moon at sunrise lends an otherworldly feel to the freshwater lakes and pearly sands along the edge of lonely Shelburne Bay, on the remote northeast flank of the Cape York Peninsula." 意译：日出和日落：当天的图片。“那月亮在日出提供一个来世的感觉给淡水湖泊和珍珠似的砂沿边缘的孤独的Shelburne湾，在遥远的东北侧翼的约克角半岛的”。 Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering A waterfall fed by glacial runoff tumbles over sheer cliffs and into the turquoise water of Admiralty Inlet on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Such moving water is among the most powerful of nature's landscape-altering tools. Photograph by Paul Nicklen 意译：侵蚀和风化图库。瀑布的水源来自冰川径流滚动越过峻峭的悬崖峭壁和融入绿松石水的Admiralty渠道上的巴芬岛，努纳武特地区，加拿大。 这种移动水是其中最强大的大自然的景观――改变工具。

Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering Sandbars swirl beneath Oregon Inlet in Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Waves driven by ocean winds can cause the sandbars here to shift and change literally by the hour, making conditions hazardous for boats. Photograph by David Alan Harvey 意译：侵蚀和风化图库。沙洲涡旋流在俄勒冈州进出渠道下方在哈特拉斯角国家海滨于北卡罗莱纳州的外部的堤。 波浪驱动的海洋风可以导致沙洲这里转移的速度并从字面上改变按小时，制造有害的条件对船。

Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering Persistent winds in the mountains of Nevada's Great Basin National Park eroded the trunk of this old pine tree into what look like a pair of sideways spectacles. The Great Basin hosts drastically varied climates, from its cold, snowy mountains to its dry, hot desert valley. Photograph by Richard Olsenius 意译：侵蚀和风化图库。持续的风在山上的内华达州的大盆地国家公园削弱了树干的老松树怎么看起来就像是一对侧身眼镜。 大盆地主人激烈多样的气候，从寒冷，多雪山到它干燥，炎热的沙漠谷地。 Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering Winds sweeping through the Grand Canyon have eroded this sandstone outcrop into an anvil shape. Wind shapes these fantastical forms by eroding less dense rock, like sandstone, faster than surrounding rock. Photograph by Melissa Farlow 意译：侵蚀和风化图库。大风席卷大峡谷，已经侵蚀了这个砂岩露出地面成为一个铁砧形状。 风形状这些空想的形式不仅侵蚀着密度较低的岩石，像砂岩，速度更快于周围的岩石。 Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering The Bernard Glacier in Alaska's Saint Elias Mountains looks like a huge alpine highway. Glaciers are slow but highly effective shapers of the land, essentially carrying away anything in their path—from soil and rocks to hills and even the sides of mountains. Photograph by George F. Mobley 意译：侵蚀和风化照片。该伯纳德冰川在阿拉斯加的圣伊来亚斯山看起来像一个巨大的高山公路。 冰河是缓慢的，但非常有效的塑造土地，从根本上运送远离任何东西在其路径，从土壤和岩石到山丘，甚至是山脉的两侧。   Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering A thunderstorm does its part to shape Utah's Mussentuchit Badlands. Although this area gets only scant rainfall, over centuries, precipitation and wind have taken turns creating this rugged land's hundreds of gullies, ravines, and washes. Photograph by Michael Collier 意译：侵蚀和风化照片。一场雷暴，它的一部分形成犹他州的mussentuchit 荒地。虽然这一地域很少降雨，几个世纪以来，降雨和风力都采取轮流创造这个高低不平的土地的数以百计的冲沟，沟壑和洼地。 Photo Gallery: Erosion and Weathering Wind erosion makes these layered sandstone hills swirl in Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area. The area, whose 112,500 acres (45,540 hectares) straddle the Utah-Arizona border, is home to sandstone arches, huge red rock amphitheaters, and hanging gardens. Photograph by Melissa Farlow 意译：侵蚀和风化照片。风力侵蚀，使这些层状砂岩丘陵漩涡形Paria峡谷－朱红色峭壁荒野地区。 该地区，那人的112500英亩（ 45540公顷）跨越犹他州－亚利桑那州的边界，是砂岩拱门的发源地，巨大的红色岩石似圆形剧场的场所，和悬挂花园。 "Stark circle of rock measuring about 60 feet [18 meters] in diameter lies in the Ténéré desert below the massif of Adrar Madet in Niger. Roughly a mile away in each of the four cardinal directions, similarly crafted arrows point away from the circle, whose origin, purpose, and age remain a puzzle." 意译：岩石的完全的圆形物测量大约60英尺（18米）的直径大小卧在尼日尔的Ténéré沙漠在Adrar Madet山丘的下面。概略地一英里以外的四周主要方向，同样的手工箭头指向圆形物的远方，起源是谁的，目的和年代保留一个迷。 Photo Gallery: Brazil The streets of Rio de Janeiro are thronged with people during the annual Carnival celebration. The festival is a plunge into earthly pleasure on the last day before Lent on the Catholic calendar, which calls for fasting and abstinence. Photograph by Stephanie Maze 意译：巴西的图片。一条名叫Rio de Janeiro街道集合群众举行一年一度的狂欢节庆典。那庆典欢乐的进入现时的快乐在天主教历法的四旬斋之前一天，那个叫做要禁食和节制。 Photo Gallery: Brazil Rays of light beam down on mist from the mighty Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and the Brazilian state of Paraná. Ancient lore has it that a deity planned to marry an aborigine woman, but when she fled with her lover in a canoe down the Iguazu, the angry god sliced the river and damned the lovers to an eternal fall. Brazil's rain forests are full of ancient cultures as well as complex ecosystems; unfortunately, both have become increasingly endangered by deforestation. Photograph by imagebroker/Alamy 意译：巴西的图片。日光闪耀的光束射向薄雾从强大的lguazu瀑布在阿根廷的接壤处和巴西的Paraná州。远古的知识已经提及一个神的计划要娶一个aborigine女人，但是当她逃走伴随她的情人在一条独木舟在下面的lguazu，那神愤怒地切割了河流和那该死的情人成为一个永恒的瀑布。巴西的雨林到处充满古文化和综合的生态系统；不幸地，古文化和生态系统两者已经变得有灭绝危险的无度采伐森林。 Photo Gallery: Brazil A boy leads a donkey across the barren dunes of Jericoacoara, Brazil. The classic image of Brazil is one of lush rain forests, but desertification caused by deforestation, climate change, population growth, and mismanaged farming practices is rapidly taking over parts of the country. Photograph by Stephanie Maze 意译：巴西的图片。一个小男孩牵一头驴子越过荒地在巴西的Jericoacoara沙丘。第一流的图片是巴西是青葱雨林，但是荒漠化是由于过度砍伐森林，气候变化，人口过度增长，和处置失当的农畜牧业习惯正在加速在国家部分地区传播。 Photo Gallery: Land of the Living Wind Sunset casts a rosy glow over granite peaks encircling a glacial lake in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. Chile's prized jewel, the 598,000-acre (242,000-hectare) national park is a mosaic of landforms including soaring mountains, golden pampas, and grinding ice fields. Photograph by Peter Essick 意译：活的风在陆地图片。夕阳蒙上了一幅玫瑰红色美丽的映照越过花岗岩峰顶环抱一冰川湖在托Torres del Paine国家公园，智利。 智利的珍贵宝石， 59.8万英亩（ 24.2万公顷）国家公园是一个镶嵌的地形包括翱翔的山，黄金的彭巴斯草原和研磨冰原野。

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