• Camp in a California wilderness

    11-02-13 It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man, wrote Teddy Roosevelt, of camping in Yosemite Park. At about 4 am, after hours of being unable to sleep; of shivering(颤抖) in the cold...

  • 吉尔吉斯斯坦某山峰以“普京”命名

    11-01-08 吉尔吉斯斯坦新任总理近日签署文件,将以俄罗斯总理普京的名字为该国北部天山地区的一座山峰命名,显示了这届联合政府对俄罗斯政府的友好。 Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, is to be immortalised(使不朽) through the naming of a peak in his honour in...

  • 揭密海底山脉生物的神秘之处

    10-09-21 They challenge the mountain ranges of the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas in size yet surprisingly little is known about seamounts, the vast mountains hidden under the world's oceans. Now in a special issue of Marine Ecology scientists uncover the...

  • 印尼锡纳朋火山日前爆发

    10-08-30 Mount Sinabung volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has erupted again, sending ash and smoke several kilometres into the atmosphere. 印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛上的锡纳朋火山日前再次爆发,致使周围数公里空气中充满灰尘和烟雾。 Nearly 20,000 people liv...

  • Village Doe and Mountain Buck

    10-08-08 Once upon a time, in northern India, there was a herd of(一群) village deer. They were used to being near villages; they were born there and grew up there. They knew they had to be very careful around people. This was especially true at harvest ti...

  • 如何翻译中文地址

    10-07-09 中文地址的排列顺序是由大到小,如:X国X省X市X区X路X号,而英文地址则刚好相反,是由小到大。如上例写成英文就是:X号,X路,X区,X市,X省,X国。掌握了这个原则,翻译起来就容易多了。 请注意:翻译人名、路名、街道名等,最好用拼音。 例如:虹口区西...

  • 乌干达玛格丽塔峰山顶冰盖破裂

    10-05-04 The ice cap on Uganda's highest peak has split because of global warming, Uganda's Wildlife Authority (UWA) says. 乌干达野生动物保护局称,因为全球变暖,其国内最高峰的冰盖已经破裂。 Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains in 1987 on the left and in 2005 on the r...

  • 尼泊尔登山者开展珠峰“大扫除”活动

    10-04-24 Twenty Nepali climbers are setting off to Qomolangma this week to try and remove decades-old garbage from the mountain in the world's highest ever clean-up campaign, organizers said on Monday. 一项在世界海拔最高的地方开展的大扫除活动日前启动。据活动...

  • Refusing to accept failure

    09-12-21 Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time (Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay during their Everest expedition) Sir阁下,爵士 Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest珠穆朗玛峰 . On May 29, 1953 he s...

  • “无人值守”

    09-11-21 近日,我国在世界最高峰建成了首个无人值守地震台。珠峰地震台的建成填补了西藏日喀则南部地区的监测空白,增强了我国中尼边界地区的地震监测能力,还将为地学工作者提供这一区域的第一手地震观测资料,将大大增强我国在青藏高原国际地学和防震减灾领域的科技竞争能力...