1. Rappelling workers lend a sense of scale to the church's central nave vaulting.

正在施工的垂着的工人拱顶中央形成了一个天秤的形状。

2. This picture was taken in Barcelona on the spectacular rooftop of Casa Milà, one of the many beautiful creations of Antoni Gaudí.

此片摄于巴塞罗那雄伟的米拉之家的屋顶，是高迪众多伟大的创造之一。

3. Chikuminuk Lake reflects the raw wilderness of 1.6-million-acre Wood-Tikchik State Park. One of the largest state parks in the U.S., it is home to five species of salmon as well as moose, caribou, and brown bears.

Chikuminuk湖映衬着160万英亩伍德基奇克州立公园的原始荒野，是美国最大的州立公园之一，它是鲑鱼以及驼鹿，驯鹿和棕熊等五个物种的家园。

4. With its eight-foot wingspan, the whooper is a jumbo jet in the avian fleet of waterfowl. By turns angelic in flight and stately in tucked-in repose, it is elegance on the wing—a bird to inspire flights of fancy.

翼展达8英尺长的天鹅是水禽世界里的庞然大物。从高雅地空中飞行到优雅地掩吻而栖，无不流露着它羽翼的优美，激起了人类对飞行的憧憬。

5. Gaudí's Casa Batlló in Barcelona, Spain

西班牙，巴塞罗那，高迪的巴特约之家。

6. Clouds break after a storm in Wood-Tikchik State Park, exposing the Wood River Mountains and an arm of Lake Nerka, an important salmon spawning habitat west of the Pebble mine site.

暴雨过后，云团围绕着伍德基奇克州立公园，将伍德河山及纳卡湖的分支暴露了出来，这儿是Pebble矿区西部一个重要的鲑鱼产卵地点。

7. In the much higher magnification of an amateur telescope, dust obscures the galaxy's center, while the colorful Antares and Rho Ophiuchi regions shine at right.

在一个非专业的超级高倍望远镜中，星尘在银河中显得很模糊，但右侧多彩的心大星及心宿增四星闪耀着光芒。

8. This is the Nativity facade of La Sagrada Família, a cathedral in Barcelona designed by famous architect Gaudí. More than 120 years after it began, the construction is still not completed and is planned to take decades more.

这是圣家堂的耶稣诞生门，巴塞罗那的一处大教堂，由著名的建筑家高迪设计。120年前就开始建造，但直到今天也仍未完工，计划还要等上几十年。