1.Leaping from Half Dome is illegal, but in Yosemite the sport of BASE jumping is soaring in popularity anyway. Climbers say it's faster (and more fun) to parachute into the valley than to hike all the way down the back of the mountain.
从“半圆顶”纵身飞下可不是合法的行为，但在优山美地国家公园一处跳伞基地，这项运动却越来越火爆。登山者说，直接降落在山谷可比翻山越岭快得多、也有趣得多了。

2.A praying mantis on high alert waits for insects drawn through the night to collect Ochroma  blossom pollen. Navigation lights glow in the background on the Panama Canal.
一只祈祷中的螳螂高度警惕着，等待捕捉夜晚采集木棉花粉的昆虫。背景是巴拿马运河上闪烁的航海灯。

3.A whitetip reef shark cruises over Great Detached Reef.
一只白鳍鲨在大离礁海域巡游。

4.As weaver ants build a nest in Malaysia, they must pull one leaf toward another. A long body—about a third of an inch—is a boon, as each ant grabs on to adjacent leaf edges with feet and jaws. If one body isn't sufficient, the insects interlock to form chains.
织叶蚁在马来西亚筑巢，它们必须将叶片一层一层的覆盖上。它们身长很长，大概有三分之一英寸，每只蚂蚁用脚和嘴控制住叶片来调整叶片的边缘。如果一只不够，它们就连在一起形成链条。

5.Tightly packed hard corals, mostly Acropora species, vie for space and energy-giving sunlight off Cairns. Though highly vulnerable to changing sea chemistry, these master builders of Indo-Pacific reefs have persisted for millions of years.
紧密生长在一起的硬珊瑚，绝大多数是鹿角种类，都是通过凯恩斯的空间和阳光的能量形成的。尽管在多变的海洋环境中极为脆弱，这些印度洋礁底的大师级建筑师已经存留了数百万年了。

6.China—Gleaming with mouthwatering perfection, a "banquet" of stones resembling food adorns a table at the sixth International Rare Stone Festival in Liuzhou. About 3,000 specimens were on show.
中国：闪着让人垂涎欲滴的光泽，一桌与食品极为相像的“石头”大餐亮相于在柳州举办的第六界国际奇石节上。大约有三千多种石头参加了展出。

7.Rhythmic currents in Challenger Bay push and pull a school of diagonal-banded sweetlips. Members of the grunt family, these fleshy-lipped fish feed at night, plucking invertebrates from the sandy sea bottom.
挑战者湾富有节奏的水流将一群对角条纹石鲈摇来摆去。这种闪光的鱼夜间进食，以沙质海底的无脊椎动物为食。

8.An anemonefish peers out from among the toxic tentacles of its sea anemone home.
一只小丑鱼从它的家、带有有毒触须的海葵里向外窥探着。