關於大自然英語美文閱讀

　　迄今為止,人與大自然之間的關係經歷了由原始的天人合一到把大自然作為奴隸踩在腳下再到如今的謀求人與大自然的和諧的過程。對人與大自然的關係的新認識也促進了人們對於兒童與大自然的關係的思考。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　美國風帆石

　　When visitors stumbled upon scores of heavy stones that appeared to have moved across the dried lake bed of Racetrack Playa in California’s Death Valley National Park, leaving a tell-tale trail in their wake, scientists were baffled. How had so many boulders, some weighing 300kg, moved as much as 250m across this remote part of the valley, asks Quora user Farhana Khanum?

　　在加利福尼亞死亡谷國家公園，遊客無意中發現幾十塊大石頭在賽馬場鹽湖的幹湖床上移動，留下神祕的尾波，科學家們也不知道如何解釋這一現象。Quora使用者法爾哈納•哈姆問道，這些卵石中有的重達300千克，它們是怎麼做到移動近250米到達峽谷的另一頭?

　　Adding to the mystery, some trails were gracefully curved, while others were straight with sudden shifts to the left or right. Who, or what, had moved the stones? A slew of theories emerged, from magnetic fields to alien intervention to dust devils to pranksters.

　　更為神祕的是，一些痕跡竟然還有優美的弧度，還有一些痕跡是直線狀，但伴有突然左拐或右拐的印記。到底是誰還是什麼東西在移動這些石頭?從磁場作用到外星人事件到塵捲風再到惡作劇，人們對此猜測不斷。

　　It took a NASA scientist to crack the case. In 2006, Ralph Lorenz developed a kitchen table model using a small rock frozen in an inch of water in a Tupperware container to demonstrate ice shove, the phenomenon behind the mysterious sailing stones.

　　一位美國航空航天局***NASA***的科學家解開了謎團。2006年，拉爾夫•洛倫茨發明了一個餐桌模型——在保鮮盒裡裝一英寸高的水，放入小石粒並將水冰凍。用這個模型解釋冰壅，神祕的風帆石背後的真相。

　　In winter, Racetrack Playa fills with water and the lakebed’s stones become encased in ice. Thanks to ice’s buoyancy, even a light breeze can send those frozen boulders sailing across the muddy bottom of the lakebed. Stones with rough bottoms leave straight tracks, while those with smooth bottoms drift and digress. Warmer months melt the ice and evaporate the water, leaving only the stones and their mysterious trails.

　　一到冬季，賽馬場鹽湖漲滿了水，而湖床裡的石頭則被冰封起來。由於冰有浮力，即使是一陣輕風也能幫扶著冰凍卵石一直劃過湖床的泥濘底部。底部不光滑的石頭會留下直線劃痕，而底部光滑的石頭則會漂移，偏離原路。天氣開始轉暖時，冰雪消融，水汽蒸發，留下的只剩那些風帆石和它們神祕的移動軌跡。

　　Visitors can see these sailing stones in a few locations, including Little Bonne Claire Playa in Nevada and most famously, Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa.

　　在內華達州的小女僕克萊爾鹽湖以及著名的死亡谷賽馬場鹽湖等地方都可以發現這些風帆石。

　　篇二

　　Nature

　　論自然

　　When we speak of nature in this manner,we have a distinct but most poetical sense in themind.

　　談論自然時，心靈倍感清晰，而詩意盎然。

　　We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects.

　　留存諸多自然物體之完整印象，

　　It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet.

　　而此恰可區分伐木工手中的圓木，與詩人心中之樹。

　　The charming landscape which I saw this morning,is indubitably made up of some twenty orthirty farms.

　　今晨我見迷人景色，無疑由二十至三十個農場組成。

　　Miller owns this field, Locke that,and Manning the woodland beyond.

　　米勒擁有這片土地，洛克擁有那片，而曼寧則為遠處樹林之主，

　　But none of them owns the landscape.

　　然而他們都無法擁有這片風景。

　　There is a property in the horizonwhich no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

　　地平線上有一財產，卻無人擁有，除非有慧眼者可將各處景緻整合為一，這就是詩人。

　　This is the best part of these men's farms,yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

　　此為所有農場中最珍貴者，卻無人能憑產權而據為己有。

　　To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.

　　說實話，只有極少數成年人見到過自然。

　　Most persons do not see the sun.

　　多數人不見太陽，

　　At least they have a very superficial seeing.

　　至少，只是浮光掠影。

　　The sun illuminates only the eye of the man,but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

　　陽光只照亮成年人雙目，卻可射入兒童的眼睛和心田。

　　The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to eachother;

　　大自然熱愛者的內、外感覺和諧共處;

　　who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

　　雖為成人卻童心未泯，

　　His intercourse with heaven and earth,becomes part of his daily food.

　　其與天地之交流已成每日之食糧;

　　In the presence of nature,a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

　　儘管心情悲愴，但面對自然時，仍會欣喜若狂。

　　Nature says, he is my creature,and maugre all his impertinent griefs,he shall be glad with me.

　　大自然言：“彼，吾所造也，應湮滅其無謂之悲傷，與吾同處應歡樂。”

　　Not the sun or the summer alone,but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;

　　不僅是陽光和夏天，四季中每一時辰都獻出歡欣;

　　for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind,frombreathless noon to grimmest midnight.

　　因為從悶熱的正午，到嚴酷的子夜，每一時刻和變化都符合並佐證著人們不同的心裡狀態。

　　Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.

　　大自然真可謂悲劇與喜劇同臺上演。

　　In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.

　　人健康時，空氣也會異常熱忱友好。

　　Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles,at twilight, under a clouded sky,without having in mythoughts any occurrence of special good fortune,I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.

　　越過空曠公地，逗留雪潭，烏雲之下，暮光之中，雖未覺鴻運當頭，卻興奮異常，

　　I am glad to the brink of fear.

　　竟樂而生懼。

　　In the woods too, a man casts off his years,as the snake his slough,and at what period soeverof life, is always a child.

　　在樹林中也是如此，人們拋落歲月如同蛇蟒蛻皮，人生無論處於何種階段，總是孩童。

　　In the woods, is perpetual youth.

　　樹林之中，青春永恆。

　　篇三

　　加拿大冰凍沼氣泡泡

　　From Australia’s bubblegum-pink lake to a blood-red waterfall in Antarctica, these sevendestinations are some of the world’s strangest sights.

　　從澳大利亞的粉色口香糖狀湖泊到南極洲的血紅色瀑布，這七處地理奇觀絕對震撼人心。

　　Majestic mountains and sparkling seas always attract travellers – but sometimes nature has abigger trick up her sleeve. To track down some of the world’s strangest sights, we turned toquestion-and-answer site Quora, asking: What are some of the best rare natural phenomenathat occur on Earth?

　　雄偉莊嚴的群山和波濤洶湧的海洋總是旅客的必遊之地——但有時自然會在袖口下變魔術。為了尋找世界上最奇特的景觀，我們在問答網站Quora上提問：地球上有哪些最難得一見的自然現象?

　　From Australia’s bubblegum-pink lake and a blood-red waterfall in Antarctica to a secret beach-in-a-hole in Mexico and a US valley where stones eerily move, these seven spots are MotherNature’s eyeball-popping sideshow.

　　從澳大利亞的粉色口香糖狀湖泊和南極洲的血紅色瀑布，再到墨西哥的神祕沙灘窟窿和美國峽谷的風帆石，這七處地理奇觀是地球母親的點睛之作。

　　Frozen methane bubbles, Canada

　　加拿大冰凍沼氣泡泡

　　They look otherworldly, like flying saucers that dropped into the water and froze, or ancient,ice-encapsulated jellyfish. In fact, these icy circles are frozen methane bubbles – pockets of gasthat, when trapped underwater and frozen, form a spectacular landscape.

　　它們看起來像鬼斧神工的傑作，就像飛碟不小心掉進水裡又被凍住了，又像是冰封的古代海蜇。其實，這些冰圈是冰凍的沼氣泡泡——當大量氣體被困在水中並冰凍起來時，這一地理奇觀就顯現在世人面前了。

　　Found in winter in high northern latitude lakes like Lake Abraham in Alberta, Canada, these gasbubbles are created when dead leaves, grass and animals fall into the water, sink and are eatenby bacteria that excrete methane. The gas is released as bubbles that transform into tens ofthousands of icy white disks when they come into contact with frozen water, Quora user MayurKanaiya explains.

　　冬季時北半球高緯的湖泊，比如加拿大阿爾伯塔省的亞伯拉罕湖，就會有這樣的沼氣泡泡景觀。湖底的微生物蠶食沉入水底的枯葉、枯草或動物死屍，並釋放沼氣，由此便形成了沼氣泡泡。當這些氣體包裹在泡泡裡被釋放到水中時，它們與冰凍的湖水接觸就變成了成千上萬的冰碟子。Quora的一位使用者馬尤爾•卡奈雅這樣解釋。

　　It’s a stunning, but potentially dangerous sight. This potent greenhouse gas not only warmsthe planet, but also is highly flammable. Come spring, when the ice melts, the methanebubbles pop and fizz in a spectacular release – but if anyone happens to light a match nearby,the masses of methane will ignite into a giant explosion.

　　沼氣泡泡的景觀固然震撼人心，但其危險性不能忽視。這種強效的溫室氣體不僅能使全球氣溫升高，而且具有極高的易燃性。當春天到來，冰雪消融時，這些沼氣泡泡會嘶嘶作響，場景很是壯觀——但是如果恰巧周圍有人在劃火柴，大量的沼氣會引發一場巨大的爆炸。

　　Curious travellers can see these gassy hiccups in lakes across Canada’s Banff National Park, orin the Arctic Ocean off Siberia, where researchers have found gargantuan gas bubbles as largeas 900m across.

　　好奇的遊客們可以在加拿大班夫國家公園周邊的湖泊看到沼氣泡泡“打嗝”，研究者們還在西伯利亞附近的北冰洋發現蔓延900米的大量沼氣泡泡。