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20070720

Blackpool, England, 1998
  Tomasz Tomaszewski

Nestling in a quiet corner, a couple enjoys a private moment at Pleasure Beach, an amusement park in Blackpool. Millions of tourists arrive annually at this seaside Victorian resort town in northwestern England. Blackpool's attractions include vintage roller coasters, an Eiffel Tower replica, and the world's largest dance hall mirror ball, but like many resorts today, it struggles with changing tourist interests.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Jolly Good Time in Blackpool, England," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)

布莱克浦(黑池)，英国，1998
Blackpool, England, 1998
摄影 Tomasz Tomaszewski

布莱克浦，游乐海滩主题公园一角，一对情侣忘情享受这一瞬间。这个英国西北部的维多利亚休养胜地每年都会接待几百万名游客，著名的旅游景点包括埃菲尔铁塔式的老式过山车，以及世上最大的舞厅镜面球。但如同其它休养胜地一样，今日的布莱克浦也为如何继续吸引旅游兴趣不断变化的游客而深深困扰。

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20070721

Italy, 1998
  O. Louis Mazzatenta

Italy's antiquities, the remains of thousands of years of history, are literally strewn throughout the country. But perils like earthquakes, car fumes, vandals, and thieves have taken a heavy toll on these treasures, like this ancient wall outside Rome, stripped by looters of much of its decorative marble.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Italy's Endangered Art," August 1999, National Geographic magazine

意大利，1998
　　　意大利全国各地都存在许多有着几千年历史的古迹。但来自地震、汽车尾气、破坏者和偷盗者等各种或自然或人为的灾难给这些古物带来了巨大的破坏。图中为罗马城外的一道古墙，墙上的大理古装饰就因屡遭盗窃而落到如今这般斑驳残败。

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20070722

Bangladesh, 1991
  James P. Blair

Fishing boats with colorful handcrafted sails stop along the banks of Bangladesh's Meghna River.
Water is a way of life throughout Bangladesh, a country that essentially comprises a vast floodplain for some of the world's most powerful rivers.

According to one resident: "To understand Bangladesh, you must understand our rivers."

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bangladesh: When the Water Comes," June 1993, National Geographic magazine)

孟加拉，1991
　　扬着女人们手工缝制的彩色船帆的渔船停靠在梅克纳河两岸。
　　水是孟加拉人生活的重要组成部分，事实上，这个国家的一部分国土就是一些世上水势最强大的河流冲击形成的泛滥平原。
　　正如一位当地居民所说：想了解孟加拉，你就必须了解孟加拉的河

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2007023

Madagascar, 2000
  Lynn Johnson

Light permeates the sheer petals of a Madagascar periwinkle.
Catharanthus roseus’s delicate appearance belies its powerful pharmaceutical prowess. The flower yields a compound that has been used effectively to treat leukemia.

Scientists are racing to study the thousands of potentially beneficial plant species found in the world's tropical forests before they are destroyed by deforestation.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Nature’s RX,” April 2000, National Geographic magazine)


马达加斯加,2000

光线穿透过马达加斯加玉黍螺(长春花属的植物)的透明花瓣。

长春花精致的外表掩饰了它强力的药物作用。用这种花生产的一种化合物可以有效地治疗白血病。

在世界上热带雨林中数千种植物因砍伐而被摧毁前，科学家正加速研究其潜在的利用价值

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20070724

Nebraska, 1974
  James L. Amos

A narrow trail hugs the sides of a mesa and descends into a valley etched by deep ravines and bordered by other large mesas. This scene in Bayard, Nebraska, would have been a common one for pioneers heading west on the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s in search of land and fortunes in gold.
One such pioneer wrote of the prairie: "Imagine the ocean, when the waves are rolling mountain high, becoming solid and covered with beautiful green grass, and you have some faint idea of it."

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Itch to Move West: Life and Death on the Oregon Trail," August 1986, National Geographic magazine)

内布拉斯加州，174
　　一条狭长小径环绕这座岩石台地蜿蜒而下伸入一个山谷。该山谷如珠嵌在众岩石台地间，为一个纵深的峡谷经长年侵蚀而形成。对于19世纪中期淘金热和西部开拓大潮中踏上通向西部的俄勒岗小道的开拓者而言，如今的内布拉斯州巴亚德地区的这一幕则是再寻常不过。
　有位开拓者曾为此写道“想象一片海，当浪头卷过高山之巅，大地初成，碧草漫地，渐渐有些念头模糊了思绪。”

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20070725

Greenland, 2006
  David McLain

Frost-flecked and sun-chapped, a hunter braves the cold in Kangerlussuaq, an inlet in western Greenland’s Davis Strait.
Besides hampering the living of hunters there, thinning sea ice along Greenland’s fringes is threatening to capsize an entire ecosystem dependent on the ice—including seals, walruses, and polar bears.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Last Days of the Ice Hunter,” January 2006, National Geographic magazine)

格陵兰，2006
　　冰天雪地中，这位晒得皲裂的脸上沾着点点冰霜的猎人站在格陵兰戴维斯海峡入口之一的Kangerlussuaq。
　　不仅当地的猎人面临着捕猎困难的生计问题，格陵兰岛边缘冰带变薄现象也对包括海豹、海象和北极熊等在内的整个冰陆生态系统带来了颠覆性的影响。

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20070726

Arizona, 2007
  Michael K. Nichols

A ribbon of water spills down a cliff in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
The canyon’s rock strata, laid bare over the past six million years by the rushing Colorado River, details nearly two billion years of North America’s geologic history. At 277 miles (446 kilometers) long, 18 miles (29 kilometers) across at its widest, and 6,000 feet (1,829 meters) down at its deepest, it is one of Earth’s largest canyon systems.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Unexpected Canyon,” January 2006, National Geographic magazine)

亚利桑那州,2007
亚利桑那州的大峡谷国家公园里，一练瀑布从悬崖上垂下。
峡谷的岩层在过去6百万年以来在科罗拉多河的冲刷下一直裸露着，展现了近两百万年以来的北美地理史。大峡谷有446公里长，最宽处29公里，最深1829米，是世界上最大的峡谷之一。

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20070726

Bahama Islands, 1986
  James L. Stanfield

Crabbers hunt for their quarry by torchlight on the Bahamas' Samana Cay. Many historians think that the island's Lucayan Indians using the same hunting technique may have been the lights "like a small wax candle" that Christopher Columbus wrote about in his diary before his fleet found land here in October of 1492.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Where Columbus Found the New World," November 1986, National Geographic magazine)

巴哈马群岛，1986

巴哈马群岛的沙马那小岛上，一位捕蟹者在火光照耀下捉蟹。

很多历史学家认为岛上的卢坎印第安人以前也用着同样的技术，那火光“就象一个小小的蜡烛”--这是哥伦布在1492年10月他的舰队发现这里时，日记上所写。

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20070728

Mexico, 1999
  Jonathan Tourtellot

Ornate metal balusters color the view from a hotel balcony in Batopilas, Mexico. This history-rich town, located in the depths of Batopilas Canyon, arose in the 1800s with the region's silver boom. By 1900, the mines were closed, but some residents stayed on. It's now a tourist stop for visitors to Mexico's picturesque Copper Canyons region.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Two Faces of Tourism," July/August 1999, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

墨西哥，1999

墨西哥的Batopilas，从一个旅馆的阳台望出去，金属栏杆的装饰给景色增添了色彩。这个历史悠久的小镇，座落在Batopilas峡谷深处，在19世纪时因银矿开采而兴起。20世纪后，银矿相继关闭，但一些人定居下来。现在这里是一个前往墨西哥美丽的Copper峡谷区域的旅行落脚点。

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20070729

Marshall Islands, 1996
  Emory Kristof

An orange crab taken from the waters near the Marshall Islands?Rongelap Atoll bears no outward evidence of the radioactive compounds that pollute its habitat.
In the 1940s and ?0s, the United States conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Bikini Atoll, a ring of Pacific islands. Radioactive fallout still pollutes Rongelap Atoll, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the east, but recent studies have found no long-term impact on marine life there.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, ?esting the Waters of Rongelap,?April 1998, National Geographic magazine)

马绍尔群岛，1996

一只取自马绍尔群岛的Rongelap环礁的橙蟹，这显示出已经没有明显的证据表明辐射物还在污染这个生物栖息地。

在20世纪40到50年代，美国在比基尼岛进行了一系列的核试验，这是一个位于大西洋的环岛，放射尘污染了位于东方160公里远的Rongelap环礁，但最近的研究发现对这里的海洋生物已经没有长期影响。

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20070730

Niland, California, 2005
  Gerd Ludwig

An irrigation canal reflects dawn-stained skies over Imperial Valley, a fertile farming region just north of Baja California.
The canal brings Colorado River water to the dry Salton Sea watershed, which, with an average of three inches (seven centimeters) of rainfall a year, would otherwise revert to desert. The Imperial Valley’s half million acres (202,343 hectares) of croplands soak up more water than Los Angeles and Las Vegas combined.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Salton Sea,” February 2005, National Geographic magazine)

Niland，加利福尼亚，2005

Imperial 峡谷里的一条灌溉渠反射出黎明的天空，这是下加利福尼亚北部的一个肥沃的农业区。

渠道将科罗拉多河水带到沙顿海(Salton Sea)流域，这里每年的平均降水量只有7厘米，如果没有引水的话将回转成沙漠。Imperial峡谷202343公顷的农田所吸收的水量超过洛杉机与拉斯维加斯的总合。

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20070731

Tuscany, Italy, 2002
  William Albert Allard

Sunflowers bloom under a brilliant blue sky between the towns of Siena and San Gimignano in Italy's Tuscany region. In the Tuscan countryside people start their day quite early, just before dawn, but wind down in the early afternoon for siesta. Shops reopen in late afternoon and dinner usually isn't served until 9 p.m.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Siena: Italy's Very Own Magic Kingdom," September 2003, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

托斯卡纳区，意大利，2002

意大利托斯卡纳区的锡耶纳市与San Gimignano市之间，太阳花盛开在明亮的蓝天下。在托斯卡纳区的乡下，人们起床很早，一般在黎明前，但是会在午间有午休。商店会在午后重新开张，而晚餐一般在9点以后开始。

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20070801

Nara, Japan, 1976
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A harvester walks amid undulating waves of tea plants in the mountainous Nara Prefecture in central Japan.
Located 23 miles (37 kilometers) south of Kyoto, Nara was Japan’s first real capital city, where artists, scholars, and statesmen began to develop an artistically and religiously rich civilization.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Kyoto and Nara: Keepers of Japan’s Past,” June 1976, National Geographic magazine)

奈良，日本，1976

小日本中心地带的奈良区的山里，一个采茶人走在茶树浪中。

位于东京以南37公里的奈良，是日本的首个真正的首都，在这里艺术家、学者和政治家们开始发展出一个富有艺术、虔诚的文明。

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20070802

India, 1996
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
Clad in shades of pink and white, celebrants of the Indian festival of Holi gather to watch a play in Vrindavan in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
The play, performed throughout India during Holi, recounts the love story of Hindu god Krishna and the common cowherd Radha. For Hindus, the fable represents human longing for the divine.

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

印度，1996

印度北部Uttar Pradesh的Vrindavan，庆祝印度胡里节的人们穿着粉红与白色的衣服，聚集在一起观看一场表演。

这场表演在胡里节期间在印度全境演出，叙述了印度教的克利须那神与牧牛神Radha的故事。对印度教徒来说，寓言表现出人们对神的渴望。

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20070803

威尼斯,意大利,1994

一个华丽的舞台道具戏剧性地威尼斯La Fenice Opera歌剧院窗子中取出来。

威尼斯最初在一片泻湖的软泥地上打木桩建造，千年后已经成为一个耀眼的城市。在15世纪，它是全欧洲羡慕的对象(注：文艺复兴的发源地之一...)

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20070804

安哥拉，路易斯安娜，1999
　位于安哥拉（美国所剩为数不多依然采用手工采摘棉花的地区之一）的路易斯安娜劳改营的犯人们正采摘棉花，这些犯人唤起人们对布鲁斯音乐起源的回忆。布鲁斯音乐发源于南方的棉花田里，当时，奴隶们以吟唱乐曲驱走蓝色恶魔。当时那些田间歌曲的曲调渐渐演变形成今天的布鲁斯的主要构架。

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20070805

墨西哥，1999
　　墨西哥铜谷内，塔拉胡马拉族印第安妇女披戴的披肩晒在晾衣绳上，舒展而鲜艳。
　　此前，偏僻的地理位置－位于铜谷纵深且岩石错落的峡谷内－致使这里善良寡言的人们得以较完好地保存当地文化。如今政府推行的一项十年旅游计划正使外部的世界渗入这片深谷。

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20070806

广岛，小日本，1997

距相生桥不远的一座有32000座位的体育馆里，小棒球迷们正为主队－广岛东洋鲤鱼队热烈欢呼。相生桥正是1945年8月6日美国投放下世界上第一枚原子弹的目标。

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20070807

英国，1981

一只成年印度豹在Jersey动物园的草地上休息。Jersey Trust动物园(现称Durrell Wildlife)于1959年在这个英吉利海峡的岛上建立，保护和繁殖着超过100种濒临灭绝的物种，包括有鸟类、哺乳动物、爬行动物和两栖动物。尽管它有些远，每年还是有75万游客光临。

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20070808


Razgrad, Bulgaria, 1962
Photograph by James P. Blair
On his journey through the lands traversed by 11th-century Crusaders in pursuit of control of the Holy Land, photographer James P. Blair encountered a patchwork of fire-cleared fields south of Razgrad, Bulgaria.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "In the Crusaders' Footsteps," June 1962, National Geographic magazine)

拉兹格勒，保加利亚，1962
　　在重走十字军东征路的旅行中，摄影师James P. Blair 在保加利亚南部的拉兹格勒发现了这片燃着火焚烧弃物的田地。

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