有關於冬天的英語美文

　　冬天的冰燈真美，宛如那水晶雕刻一般。冬天好像個酷酷的女孩，把自己的一身裝成雪白雪白的。小編分享，希望可以幫助大家!

　　：LOHAS in Winter 樂活於冬日

　　As the days draw in and temperatures drop, you may be tempted to hang up your exercisegear and hibernate. Don’t! It may be cold outside but winter needn’t be the unhealthiest timeof year for you and your family. Stay active throughout autumn and winter to beat thoseseasonal blues and feel on top of the world.

　　當冬天來臨，氣溫降低，你或許想收起你的健身器材，進入“冬眠”了。千萬別!外面可能是很冷，但冬天不應該成為你和家人不健康的時段。無論秋天還是冬天，都要保持活力，打敗季節性憂鬱，讓自己處於最佳狀態。

　　Here are four ways to make sure that even when your body is telling you to hibernate you cankeep healthy and fit, no matter what the weather’s like:

　　儘管身體告訴你是時候“冬眠”了，但是以下四個方法可以讓你無論在何種天氣，都保持身體健康。

　　1. Eliminate your sleep debt

　　1. 消除睡眠負擔

　　“On average we sleep six-and-a-half hours a night, much less than the seven to nine hoursrecommended,” says the spokesperson at the Sleep Council, which aims to raise awareness ofthe importance of a good night’s sleep to health and wellbeing. But in winter, we naturally sleepmore, due to the longer nights. “It’s perfectly natural to adopt hibernating habits when theweather turns cold.”

　　睡眠委員會的發言人表示，“我們每晚平均要睡眠6.5小時，比建議的7到9小時要短”，這是要提高人們對一個好的晚間睡眠對身體健康重要性的意識。但是，在冬天，我們要多睡一點，因為冬天晚間時間長。“當天氣轉冷，採取‘冬眠習慣’是非常自然的事情。”

　　2. Drink more milk

　　2. 多喝牛奶

　　You are 80% more likely to get a cold in winter so making sure your immune system is in tip-top condition is important. Milk and dairy products such as cheese, yoghurt and fromage fraisare great sources of protein and vitamins A and B12. They’re also an important source ofcalcium, which helps keep our bones strong. Try to go for semi-skimmed or skimmed milk,rather than full fat, and low-fat yoghurts.

　　在冬天，你有80%的機會換感冒，因此，讓你的免疫系統處於巔峰狀態尤其重要。牛奶和奶製品如芝士、酸奶和乳酪都是蛋白質和維他命A和B12的重要來源。同時也是鈣質的重要來源，可以讓你的骨頭堅實。嘗試喝半脫脂牛奶或脫脂牛奶，而不喝全脂或低脂酸奶。

　　3. Eat more fruit and veg

　　3. 多吃水果和蔬菜

　　Ensure that you still keep your diet healthy and include five portions of fruit and veg a day butnot unhealthy comfort food. If you find yourself craving a sugary treat, try sweet dried fruitssuch as dates or raisins. Winter vegetables such as carrots and turnips can be roasted, mashedor made into soup for a comforting winter meal for the whole family.

　　確保飲食均衡營養，保持每天五份水果和蔬菜，而不是吃不健康的消閒食品。如果你真的想吃些含糖小吃，你可以吃些甜乾果如大棗和葡萄乾。紅蘿蔔和白蘿蔔這類冬季蔬菜可以烤著吃，或磨成漿放進湯裡作為全家人的溫暖冬天晚餐。

　　4. Try new activities for the whole family

　　4. 和家人進行新活動

　　Don’t use the cold winter months as an excuse to stay in and lounge around. Regular exercisehelps to control your weight, boost your immune system and is a good way to break thetension that can build if the family is constantly cooped up inside the house.

　　不要把冬天天氣寒冷作為呆在家裡和閒逛的藉口。常規鍛鍊可以控制你的體重，促進免疫系統迴圈。家人經常禁閉在家裡會引發緊張關係，外出鍛鍊同時也是打破緊張關係的好方法。

　　Don’t worry if you’ve not done much for a while, these exercises are easy, gentle to follow andcan also be done indoors.

　　雖然你很久沒做運動，但也無須擔心，以下的鍛鍊簡單輕鬆，也可以在室內完成。

　　if you’re not keen on exercising outdoors, check out our 10-minute home exercise routines:

　　如果你不想去室外鍛鍊，可以看一下我們為你提供的10分鐘在家鍛鍊運動：

　　6-minute warm-up

　　6分鐘熱身運動

　　10-minute home cardio workout

　　10分鐘有氧運動

　　10-minute home toning workout

　　10分鐘塑身運動

　　Stretching after exercising

　　伸展運動

　　Something you enjoy

　　在享受中運動

　　Choose an activity that you enjoy. Now might be the time to try something new that you cando indoors, such as:

　　選擇你可以從中享受的運動。這個時間最適合在室內做的新鍛鍊模式：

　　archery

　　箭術

　　badminton

　　羽毛球

　　bowls

　　保齡球

　　cycling

　　自轉腳踏車運動

　　dancing

　　跳舞

　　curling

　　冰壺運動

　　fencing

　　擊劍

　　fitness classes

　　健身班

　　five-a-side football

　　五人制足球

　　handball

　　手球

　　judo

　　柔道

　　pilates

　　普拉提健身課程

　　squash

　　壁球

　　swimming

　　冬泳

　　table tennis

　　乒乓球

　　tai chi

　　太極拳

　　yoga

　　瑜伽

　　：Chilling out in the winter sun

　　冬日下的冷噤

　　Stratospheric changes can lead to nasty cold snaps

　　平流層變化引起討厭的嚴寒

　　THOSE unconvinced—and those seeking to unconvince others—of the reality of man-madeglobal warming often point to the changeable behaviour of the sun as an alternativehypothesis.

　　那些自己不信和那些遊說他人不要相信人類活動導致全球變暖的人，常常將其歸咎於太陽活動多變。

　　A new study showing how the severity of winters in Europe, and warming in the Arctic, might belinked to changes in solar activity might seem to add to this case.

　　一項新的研究似乎為此提供了新證據：該研究顯示歐洲冬日的嚴寒以及北極地區的溫暖也許真與太陽活動有關。

　　In itself, it does not, for the heat in question is being redistributed, not retained.

　　就研究本身而言，它並不能提供新的證據，因為所提到的熱能是被重新分配而不是滯留固定的。

　　But it does point to two other lessons about climate change:

　　但它的確指出了關於氣候變化的另外兩個問題：

　　that hard data on the factors which affect it are sometimes difficult to come by;

　　一是有時候很難獲得影響氣候變化的因素的切實資料;

　　and that computer models of the climate can be quite impressive tools for working out what isgoing on.

　　二是計算機氣候模型在探究氣候現象方面是十分強大的工具。

　　The sun's activity waxes and wanes on an 11-yearcycle, and over this cycle the amount of ultraviolet light the sun emits changes a lot more thandoes the total amount of energy.

　　太陽活動的盛衰以11年為一個週期，在一個週期內，太陽放射的紫外線的變化幅度要比其放射的能量的變化幅度要大得多。

　　The stratosphere, the part of the Earth's atmosphere which does most to absorb UV, mightthus be expected to particularly sensitive to the cycle.

　　因此，地球大氣中吸收最多紫外線的平流層也許對這一週期變化最為敏感。

　　In a paper just published in Nature Geoscience,

　　《自然地球科學》雜誌剛剛發表的一篇論文上，

　　Sarah Ineson of Britain's Meteorological Office and her colleagues compared the way that theMet Office's new and putatively improved climate model dealt with winters at times of high UVand at times of low UV, using data on the amount of ultraviolet the sun gives off that werecollected by a satellite called SORCE.

　　英國氣象局的莎拉?伊內森和她的同事們利用SORCE衛星收集的太陽放射的紫外線資料，對比了氣象局新建立的改良版氣候模型對於紫外線峰值年與低谷年的冬天的處理方式。

　　Dr Ineson found that at low UV levels the stratosphere in the tropics was cooler,

　　伊內森博士發現，熱帶平流層在紫外線低谷年的溫度偏低，

　　because there was less UV for it to absorb, which meant the difference in temperaturebetween the tropical stratosphere and the polar stratosphere shrank.

　　因為可吸收的紫外線較少，這就使得熱帶平流層與極地平流層的溫差縮小。

　　That changed the way the atmosphere circulated, and as those changes spread down into thelower atmosphere they made it easier for cold surface air from the Arctic to come south inwinter, freezing chunks of northern Europe.

　　這一溫差變化會改變大氣迴圈的方式，而低層大氣迴圈方式的改變讓冬天北極冷空氣更易南下，冰凍北歐大片地區。

　　These conditions looked similar to those seen in the past two cold European winters—whichoccurred at a time of low solar activity.

　　這些狀況與歐洲上兩次均發生在太陽活動沉靜期的嚴酷寒冬的狀況十分相似。

　　The Arctic itself, in models and in real life, was warmer than usual, as were parts of Canada.

　　這種狀況下，無論在氣候模型中還是現實中，北極和加拿大部分地區都比平常要溫暖。

　　In contrast, northern Europe, swathes of Russia and bits of America were colder.

　　相比之下，北歐、俄羅斯大部分地區以及美國小部分地區則比平常要冷。

　　Why had this solar effect not been seen before?

　　為何太陽在這方面的影響之前未被發現?

　　To some extent it had. Earlier modelling of a period of prolonged low solar activity in the 17thand 18th centuries showed similar patterns.

　　某種程度上說，的確有前人初見其端倪。早前一個的反映十七、十八世紀偏長的太陽活動低迷期的模型顯示了類似的氣候變化模式。

　　That models of today's climate had not was, in part,

　　今日的模型未能發現這一影響的部分原因是，

　　because they used much lower estimates of the amount of UV variation over the solar cyclethan those derived from the SORCE data, the most precise to be taken from a satellite lookingat the sun.

　　與SORCE衛星收集的最精確資料所計算衍生的數值相比，這些模型對太陽活動週期內紫外線值的變化幅度估計過低。

　　It may just be that working with more realistic data made the model work better.

　　也許就是更切實的資料讓這些模型做得更好。

　　This does not mean the question is settled.

　　但問題並沒有解決。

　　Some scientists suspect the SORCE data may be exaggerating the sun's variability, and ifthey were revised the link might go away.

　　有些科學家認為SORCE衛星的資料有誇大太陽活動變化幅度的嫌疑，如果將資料加以修正，那麼太陽活動與氣候的所謂聯絡很可能也不復存在。

　　There are other theories around seeking to explain the recent cold winters, too.

　　還有其他一些理論也致力於找出近期嚴酷寒冬發生的原因。

　　Improving predictions of future cold winters on the basis of this work, as the researchers saythey would like to do, may thus prove hard.

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　　But though global warming has made people look to models as predictors of the future, that isnot their strongest suit.

　　儘管全球變暖使人們將氣候模型視為預測工具，但這可不是它們最強大的地方。

　　Something they can do much better is look at what happens when a variable such as UV isaltered,

　　它們更精於研究當紫外線等某一變數變化時發生的情況，

　　compare that with the data, and thus gain insight into the mechanisms by which climate works.

　　並將其與已有資料進行比較，從而瞭解氣候運作機制。

　　This new research provides a good example of what such an approach can achieve.

　　此項新研究很好地給我們展現了這一方法的潛能。

　　：A Winter Walk

　　冬日漫步

　　The wind has gently murmured through the blinds,or puffed with feathery softness against the windows,and occasionally sighed like a summer zephyr lifting the leaves along, the livelong night.

　　微風緩緩地吹著百葉窗，吹在窗上，非常溫柔，像羽毛似的;偶爾也會猶如幾聲嘆息，聽起來像夏夜漫漫長夜裡的輕風撫著樹葉的聲音。

　　The meadow mouse has slept in his snug gallery in the sod,the owl has sat in a hollow tree in the depth of the swamp,the rabbit, the squirrel, and the fox have all been housed.

　　在鋪著草皮的地下，田鼠正在地洞裡呼呼大睡，貓頭鷹則在沼澤地深處的一棵空心樹裡蹲看，兔子、松鼠、狐狸都呆在家裡。

　　The watch-dog has lain quiet on the hearth,and the cattle have stood silent in their stalls.

　　看門的狗靜靜地躺在暖爐旁，牛羊在欄圈裡梢無聲息。

　　The earth itself has slept, as it were its first, not its last sleep,save when some street sign or woodhouse door has faintly creaked upon its hinge,cheering forlorn nature at her midnight work,the only sound awake twixt Venus and Mars,

　　連大地都在沉睡—但這不是壽終正寢，而是忙碌一年後第一次美美地睡上一覺。夜已經深了，大自然還在忙碌著，只有街上一些招牌或小木屋的門軸不時嘎吱嘎吱地響，給沉寂的大自然來一點慰藉。也只有這些聲音，預示著在茫茫宇宙中，在金星和火星之間，

　　advertising us of a remote inward warmth,a divine cheer and fellowship, where gods are met together,but where it is very bleak for men to stand.

　　天地萬物中還有一些是清醒的。我們想起了看似遙遠卻也許近在心中的“溫暖的感覺”，還有那些只有天神們在相聚時才能感受到的—種神聖的鼓舞和難得的交情，而這些對於凡人是不勝蒼涼的。

　　But while the earth has slumbered,all the air has been alive with feathery flakes descending,as if some northern Ceres reigned,showering her silvery grain over all the fields.

　　大地此刻在酣睡，可是空氣還很活躍，鵝毛大雪漫天飛舞，好像是一個北方的五穀女神，正在把她的銀種子撒在我們的田野上。

　　We sleep, and at length awake to the still reality of a winter morning.

　　我們也進入了夢鄉，等到醒來時，恰是冬季的早晨。

　　The snow lies warm as cotton or down upon the window-sill;

　　世界靜悄悄的，雪下了厚厚的一層。

　　the broadened sash and frosted panes admit a dim and private light,which enhances the snug cheer within.

　　窗櫺上像鋪了柔軟的棉花或羽絨;窗格子顯得寬了些，玻璃上爬滿了冰紋，看起來黯淡而神祕，使家裡變得更加溫馨舒適。

　　The stillness of the morning is impressive.

　　早晨的寂靜真令人難忘。

　　The floor creaks under our feet as we move toward the window to look abroad through some clear space over the fields.

　　我們踏著吱吱作響的地板來到視窗前，站在一塊沒有結冰的地方，眺望田野風景。

　　We see the roofs stand under their snow burden.

　　屋頂被皚皚白雪覆蓋著，雪凍成的冰條掛在屋簷下和柵欄上;

　　From the eaves and fences hang stalactites of snow,and in the yard stand stalagmitescovering some concealed core.

　　院子裡的雪柱像竹筍一樣立著，雪柱裡有沒有藏著什麼東西，就無從知曉了。

　　The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side;

　　樹木和灌木向四面八方伸展著它們白色的枝幹;

　　and where were walls and fences,we see fantastic forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape,as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art.

　　原來是牆壁和籬笆的地方，形態更加奇妙，在昏暗的大地上，它們向左右延伸，似乎在跳躍，彷彿一夜的工夫，大自然就重新設計了一幅田野美境，供人類的藝術家來臨摹。