日本火灾洪水

　　Fire and Flood in Japan

　　日本火灾洪水

　　Houses burn amid flood waters on March 11 after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a powerful tsunami。

　　3月11日，日本遭受8.9级大地震袭击并引发可怕海啸。灾难发生后，无数房屋被泡在洪水中，部分起火燃烧。

　　The earthquake—the strongest in Japan in 140 years—struck 81 miles (130 kilometers) off the coast of Sendai at 2:46 p.m. local time. A port city of about a million residents, Sendai was hit by tsunami waves up to 33 feet (10 meters) high.The earthquake and its aftershocks were felt as far away as Tokyo, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the epicenter。

　　当地时间下午2点46分，大地震袭击仙台沿海81英里(130公里)的海域。地震引发的海啸随即袭击这个大约100万人口的港口城市，海浪高度达到33英尺(10米)。这是日本140年来遭受的最大地震，距离震中大约250英里(400公里)的东京也感到震感和余震。

911十周年纪念

　　9/11 Anniversary

　　9·11十周年纪念

　　People on a New York City street scan pictures of the many police and fire personnel still missing in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

　　在纽约的一条街道，当地居民浏览警察和消防员的照片，2001年9月11日恐怖袭击后，他们就下落不明。

　　"I've heard from any number of survivors that they could tell by looking at firefighters' faces [the firefighters] knew how bad this was and that they might not get out," said Clifford Chanin, an executive at New York City's National 9/11 Memorial and Museum and editor of Memory Remains, a photographic book of 9/11 artifacts. "They knew what they were facing, and the heroism and courage [they showed] is just astonishing."

　　纽约国家9·11纪念馆/博物馆负责人、9·11文物照片集《残留的记忆》编辑克利福德·查宁表示：“所有幸存者都对我说，看着消防员脸上的表情，他们就知道情况有多糟，他们可能出不去了。他们清楚地知道自己面临着什么，在危险面前，他们表现出令人敬佩的勇气和英雄品质。”

寄生真菌

　　Mind-Control Fungus

　　寄生真菌

　　A stalk of the new fungus species Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani grows out of a "zombie" ant's head in a Brazilian rain forest.

　　巴西雨林，僵尸蚂蚁的头部向外长出一根类似茎干的物体，这根“茎干”实际上是一种新发现的真菌，名为“Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani”。

　　Originally thought to be a single species, called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, the fungus is actually four distinct species—all of which can "mind control" ants, scientists announced in March.The fungus can infect an ant, take over its brain, and then kill the insect once the it moves to an ideal location for growing and spreading the fungus's spores.

　　科学家3月表示，这种真菌最初被认为是单一物种，名为“Ophiocordyceps unilateralis”，但实际上有4个截然不同的种群，并且全部能够对蚂蚁进行大脑寄生。Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani能够感染蚂蚁并占领它们的大脑，一旦蚂蚁移动到最适于它们生长和传播孢子的区域，它们便会痛下杀手，杀死蚂蚁。

捕获最大鳄鱼

　　Largest Crocodile?

　　捕获最大鳄鱼

　　Caught alive after a three-week hunt, an allegedly 21-foot-long (6.4-meter-long) saltwater crocodile caught in the Philippines may be the largest crocodile yet captured, officials said in September.

　　经过长达3周的搜捕，一条长达21英尺(6.4米)的咸水鳄最终在菲律宾“落网”。官员们9月表示这可能是迄今为止捕获的体型最大的鳄鱼。

　　The 2,369-pound (1,075-kilogram) crocodile is suspected of attacking several people and killing two. The animal, named Lolong, survived capture and was held in a temporary enclosure near Bunawan township (map).

　　这条鳄鱼重2369磅(1075公斤)，被命名为Lolong，曾多次袭击人类，共造成两人死亡。目前，Lolong临时被“囚禁”在棉兰老岛一个围栏内。

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