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20070630

Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, 1996
  Flip Nicklin

Researchers motor through glassy Arctic waters off Norway's Svalbard Archipelago. This team is in search of elusive bearded seals, an affectionate and playful seal species that spends nearly all its life either in the water or drifting on Artic ice floes.
At the time of this photo, little was known about bearded seals, due to their forbiddingly frigid habitat and aquatic lifestyle. This and subsequent research missions shed light on this wide-ranging seal's life, include birthing sites, growth rates, diving behavior, and diet.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bearded Seals: Going With the Floe," March 1990, National Geographic magazine)

斯瓦尔巴群岛,挪威，1996

科考摩托艇穿过挪威斯瓦尔巴群岛附近玻璃般的北冰洋水域。这个小组在搜索难得一见的髯海豹（Bearded seals）：这是一种可爱而贪玩的海豹，几乎一生都在水中或北冰洋浮冰上度过。

在拍这张相片时，由于其栖息地的严寒和水生形态，人们对此种海豹所知甚少。这次以及后来的一系列科考活动，引导人们广泛了解了髯海豹，比如：出育地、生长率、潜水习性以及食性等。

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20070701

Australia, 2002
  Medford Taylor

Two fishermen navigate the fog-fringed Clarence River near the town of Grafton in New South Wales, Australia. Settlement along the 245-mile-long (394-kilometer-long) Clarence, began near Grafton in 1832 after a convict who had escaped into the area won his freedom by leading timber barons to copious cedar stands along the river's banks.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Australia by Bike,” December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

澳洲，2002

在澳大利亚新南威尔士的Grafton城附近，两位渔夫正在薄雾的Clarence河上泛舟。

Clarence长达394公里河域的移民，始于1832年Grafton城附近，当是一个罪犯逃到这儿，并通过leading timber barons to copious cedar stands along the river's banks而获得了自由。

（最后这句话的翻译有很大的疑问，英文部分的大致意思可能是：“领导木材大亨们丰富河岸上的雪松”----timber barons与copious实在不知如何解才合理，拆开来timber是“木材”的意思，barons是“男爵”与“大亨”之类的意思，而copious是“很多的”、“丰富的”意思，它是形容词：按理这时应该是一个动词啊？哪位大侠帮帮我......）

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20070702

Tucson, Arizona, 1997
  William Albert Allard

A horse and rider complete an introductory lap before a rodeo show in a muddy Tucson, Arizona, arena.
Rodeo evolved from the often dangerous tactics cowboys used to break horses and to catch and brand cattle. In most professional rodeo shows, riders compete in seven events: saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping, steer roping, team roping, and steer wresting.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, ?odeo: Behind the Chutes,?September 1999, National Geographic magazine)

图森，亚利桑那州，1997

亚利桑那州图森市的一个泥泞的竞技场中，在一场牛仔竞技表演(rodeo shows)开始前，一匹马与它的骑手完成了一次介绍性的跑圈。

牛仔竞技表演(rodeo shows)是从牛仔们经常进行的危险的训马及捕牛活动演变而来，在大多数专业的rodeo shows中，骑手们会比赛七种项目：有鞍野马骑术、无鞍骑术、公牛骑术、套小牛、套公牛、分组套牛、搏牛

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20070703

Venice, Italy, 1994
  Sam Abell

Members of the Querini boat club row alla veneta, or gondola-style, through the waters of Venice Lagoon during the city’s 20th annual Vogalonga, a spirited rowing marathon that covers an 18-mile (30-kilometer) loop from Venice to Burano and back.
A group of oarsmen started the race in 1974 to revive traditional Venetian lagoon rowing. Today, the competition attracts some 5,200 rowers in more than 1,400 boats.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Venice: More Than a Dream,” February 1995, National Geographic magazine)

威尼斯，意大利，1994

在威尼斯第20届Vogalonga期间，Querini划船俱乐部的队员划着alla veneta，或称为gondola-style的船，通过威尼斯lagoon水域。这场考验耐力的划船马拉松有30公里来回的航程：从威尼斯到色彩岛(Burano)并返回。

一个划船团体在1974年开始这个比赛，以复兴威尼斯传统的Venetian lagoon划船。现在，这个比赛吸引了近5200划船手及超过1400条船只参加。

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20070704

Minnesota, 2000
  Richard Olsenius

Firemen bring relief to spectators at Bowlus Fun Days, a central Minnesota Fourth of July celebration that pits teams of firefighters against each other in a series of “water wars.”
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “In Search of Lake Wobegon,” December 2000, National Geographic magazine)

明尼苏达州,2000

消防队员们给观众们带来消遣。这是Bowlus娱乐节，一个7.4日在明尼苏达州中心进行的节日。这天，在分组的消防队员们之间会开展一系列“水战”

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20070705

   
  Myanmar, 2005
  Nicolas Reynard

The space between the rumpled sail and the boom on a hand-built kabang boat reveals a slice of sea and sky—and other members of the flotilla—in Myanmar's Mergui Archipelago in the Andaman Sea.
Some of the archipelago’s 800 islands are home to the Moken, a nomadic Austronesian people that live aboard their boats nine months of the year, surviving off the waters surrounding Myanmar and Thailand.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Sea Gypsies of Myanmar," April 2005, National Geographic magazine)

缅甸，2005

手工制作的Kabang船的皱帆与帆下桁之间的空隙，展现出一片宁静的海天，以及另一艘在阿达曼海的缅甸墨吉群岛中航行的船。

这群岛的800个岛屿中的一些，是Moken人的家，他们是一年在船上生活9个月的游牧的南岛语族，现在依然在环绕缅甸与泰国的水域中生活着。

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20070706

Rodanthe, North Carolina, 1985
  David Alan Harvey

A man watches as hurricane-roiled surf pounds Rodanthe Pier in North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Tropical storms, nor'easters, and hurricanes frequently pound the Outer Banks, driving the Atlantic Ocean inland and constantly eroding and reshaping this fragile strip of barrier islands.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Awash in Change: North Carolina's Outer Banks," October 1987, National Geographic magazine)

Rodanthe，北卡罗莱纳州，1985

北卡罗莱纳州外堤的Rodanthe码头上，一个人看着飓风带动的海浪拍打着堤岸。

热带风暴、风暴和飓风经常会冲击外堤，驱动大西洋不断地侵蚀与改造着这片易碎的堰洲岛。

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20070707

Chachawuate, Honduras, 2001
  Susie Post Rust

A Gar?una woman scrubs clothes on a washboard in the Honduran coastal village of Chachawuate.
The Gar?una culture was born when a slave ship wrecked off St. Vincent in 1635, throwing together West Africans aboard the vessel with St. Vincent? Carib Indians, originally immigrants from South America. Today some 60 Gar?una fishing villages dot the Central American coast.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, ?he Gar?una: Weaving a Future From a Tangled Past,?September 2001, National Geographic magazine)

洪都拉斯沿海的村庄Chachawuate里，一个Garífuna女人在一个洗衣板上洗衣服。

Garífuna文明起于1635年一艘运奴船在St.Vicent的遇难，混合了船运来的西非人与St.Vicent的加勒比印第安人(最初从南美移民过来的)。

现在有约60个Garifuna渔村分布在中美海岸上。

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20070708

Madagascar, 1967
  Luis Marden

Two men gaze into the azure waters of Lake Tritiva near Antisirabe, Madagascar. The volcanic lake's waters are said to mysteriously rise during the dry season and fall during rainy season.
According to legend, two intertwined trees on a ridge above the lake contain the spirits of a young couple who leapt from a cliff to their deaths when they were refused permission to marry.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Madagascar: Island at the End of the Earth, " October 1967, National Geographic magazine)

马达加斯加，1967

Antisirabe附近的Tritiva边，两个人看着蔚蓝的湖水。这个火山湖的湖水据说非常神秘，水位在旱季会上升，而雨季会下降。

传说，有一对年轻的恋人由于不被允许结婚而在这里的悬崖上跳下而死，而他们的灵魂则化入湖岸上的两棵互相缠绕在一起的树中。

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20070709

Laeso, Denmark, 2003
  Darlyne A. Murawski

A mounded seaweed roof creeps down the walls of the main building in Laeso, Denmark's Museumsgården.
Parts of this building date to the 1600s. Like many older structures on Laeso, it is constructed in part using timber salvaged from ships stranded in the island's shallow waters. Laeso residents turned to seaweed to thatch their roofs after most of the island's trees and reeds were harvested and burned by the salt industry.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Killer Caterpillars," June 2003, National Geographic magazine)

兰依索，丹麦，2003

丹麦兰依索的Museumsgården，一堆海草屋顶从主建筑物的墙上蔓延而下。

这些建筑的一部分建于17世纪。如同兰依索的大部分建筑一样，其结构一部分的木材取自于搁浅于这个海岛的船只。在这个岛上的大部分树木与芦苇由于制盐工业而砍伐与焚烧光后，兰依索当地居民开始用海草来覆盖他们的屋顶。

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20070710

Bhubaneswar, India, 1996
  Cary Wolinsky

A woman in Bhubaneswar, India, grinds brilliant red mineral pigments to powder on a stone pestle for Holi, the Indian festival of color.
During Holi celebrants toss clouds of powdered pigments in shades of indigo, magenta, and saffron to celebrate the passion of Hindu god Krishna for his lover, Radha.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Quest for Color,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine)

布巴内斯瓦尔,印度,1996

一个印度布巴内斯瓦尔的女人用石槌将红色矿物染料研磨成粉末，这是为胡里节做准备，胡里节就是印度的色彩节。

在胡里节时，参与庆典的人们将靛青色、红紫色以及金黄色的彩粉撒向空中，以展现印度教神“克利须那神”对他的爱人：Radha的激情。

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20070711

Craftsbury, Vermont, 1997
  Michael S. Yamashita

A horse paws trampled snow in a paddock amid a criss-cross of split-rail fences on a Craftsbury, Vermont, farm.
Part of the Appalachian Mountain system, the Green Mountains (background) stretch for 250 miles (402 kilometers) through central Vermont. The name Vermont comes from the French verts monts, or "green mountains."

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Vermont: Suite of Seasons,” September 1998, National Geographic magazine)

Craftsbury，佛蒙特州，1997

佛蒙特州的Craftsbury的某农场中，一匹马在一片纵向栅栏（split-rail fences ）围出的空地里用前蹄跺踏着地上的雪层。
　　作为阿巴拉契亚造山运动的一部分，绿山Green Mountains （图中背景山脉）绵延250英里横贯佛蒙特州。佛蒙特Vermont一词来源于法语verts monts，意为“green mountains”。

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20070712

Australia, 1997
  R. Ian Lloyd

Roff Smith wanders along sand dunes in South Australia. A well-known writer on Australian topics, Smith embarked on a nine-month, 10,000-mile (16,000-kilometer) bicycle trek around the rugged continent in 1996.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Australia by Bike," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

澳大利亚，1997

Roff Smith，行走在南澳大利亚的沙丘间。作为知名的澳大利亚专栏作者，Smith在1996年完成自行车环岛旅行，历时9个月，行程10000英里（16000千米）。

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20070713

Batopilas, Mexico, 1999  
  Jonathan Tourtellot

An old-style Mexican hotel (right) pales beneath the gleaming blue-tiled domes of the upscale Riverside Lodge in Batopilas, Mexico. This century-old hacienda, formerly a local merchant's home, was meticulously restored by an American businessman in the early 1990s, just as the Mexican government was beginning a push to make the country's Copper Canyons region a major tourist destination.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Two Faces of Tourism," July/August 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

Batopilas,墨西哥,1999

在拥有闪闪发光的蓝色穹顶的高级河畔旅馆旁边，老式的墨西哥旅馆（右边）黯然失色。

这座百年老庄园，以前是当地一个商户的家，在1990年代早期被一个美国商人小心翼翼地修复，当时的墨西哥政府正好在推行将Copper峡谷区域作为主旅游区的的政策。

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20070714

Paris, France, 1988
  James L. Stanfield

Parisians celebrate the Great Revolution of 1789 in the Place de la Bastille on July 14th. In the center of the plaza stands the Colonne de Juillet, a monument to those who died during the 1830 and 1848 revolts.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The New, the Enduring Paris," July 1989, National Geographic magazine)

巴黎，法国，1988

7月14日，巴黎人在巴士底广场上庆祝1789的大革命。在广场中央耸立的是“7月纪念碑”，纪念的是在1830与1848年起义期间牺牲的人们。

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20070715

Memphis, Tennessee, 1999
  William Albert Allard

Throngs of people fill Memphis' Beale Street, famed for its many bars and clubs frequented by some of the greatest names in blues music. As African Americans migrated north from the fields to the cities after the abolition of slavery, their route came to be known as the "blues highway." The port city of Memphis was the first major stop along the way, becoming a spawning ground for blues, jazz, and rock-and-roll.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Traveling the Blues Highway," April 1999, National Geographic magazine)

孟菲斯，田纳西州，1999

人群挤满了孟菲斯Beale街，这条街以其许多因一些伟大的蓝调音乐人而著名的酒吧和夜总会而著名。

在废除奴隶制之后，非裔美国人从田园移居到北方的城市，他们的移民路线被称为“蓝色高速路”。孟菲斯这个港口城市是这条路线上最重要的落脚点，成为了蓝调、爵士、摇滚音乐的“哺化地”

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20070716

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2004
  Penny De Los Santos

Students at the Indian Community School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, brandish drum beaters at a dedication ceremony.
Students at the school, most of whom belong to one of Wisconsin’s five main tribes, are instructed in traditional Native American values, history, and culture. A Potawatomi casino funds tuition, transportation, and meals at the school.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A School of Their Own, " September 2004, National Geographic magazine)

密尔沃基[美国威斯康星州东南部港市],2004
印第安社会学校的学生们在一个庆典上击鼓。
这个学校的学生大部分属于威斯康星州五大部落之一，教育保持美洲原住民的传统价值、历史与文明。一个Potawatomi赌场资助着学校的学费、交通与食物。

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20070717

China, 1974
  Luis Marden

Jagged tower karst formations rise in the distance as the Li River flows past a quiet landscape near Guilin, China.
These karst mountains are what remain of an ancient seabed that was lifted and subsequently eroded away. The formations line much of the Li River and have inspired Chinese poets and artists for centuries. They're also a source of national pride, earning an appearance on the back of China's 20 yuan note.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bamboo, The Giant Grass, " October 1980, National Geographic magazine)

中国，1974

流经中国桂林附近的平静的漓江，喀斯特地形在岸边此起彼伏。

这些喀斯特山是古海床的一部分，在升起后又经过侵蚀形成。这些地形在漓江边非常丰富，激发了几个世纪的诗人与艺术家的灵感。

它们也是一种国家自豪，被印在中国的20元纸币上。

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20070718

Miami, Florida, 1998
  Gail Mooney

As twilight descends, nightlife heats up at the CocoWalk, an open-air shopping mall in Miami’s chic Coconut Grove neighborhood. A stone’s throw from Biscayne Bay, Coconut Grove is one of Miami’s oldest and most eclectic communities.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “48 Hours in Miami,” April 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)


迈阿密，佛罗里州，1998

夕阳微光退去，夜生活在CocoWalk开始升温，这是一条位于迈阿密Coconut Grove附近的户外购物街。作为比斯坎湾的分部之一，Coconut Grove是迈阿密最古老与最折衷的社团。-----实在不懂这话到底指什么意思，晕死.....

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20070719

Michigan, 1997
  Jay Dickman

Decades later, a tree-stump forest still looks as Ernest Hemingway described it in his short story "Big Two-Hearted River." The trees were felled for lumber in the late 1800s, then the stumps charred black by brush fires. The numerous lichens, however, mirror the area's resilience: Trout-rich rivers and stands of birch, aspen, and maple continue to thrive.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hemingway's Many Hearted Fox River," June 1997, National Geographic magazine)

密歇根州,1997

几十年后，树桩森林依然象海明威在他的短篇小说“Big Two-Hearted River”里描写的那样。这些树在19世纪末的时候为获得木材而被砍伐，之后树桩被野火烧焦。不管怎样，无数的地衣依然反映出这个区域的复苏：富有鲑鱼的河流旁树立着的白桦、白杨和枫树依然繁茂生长。

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