美丽中国1

1最后的隐世净土

The last hidden world

2中国

China

3数世纪来旅人传诵着关于这片神奇土地

For centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapes

4以及那些神奇生物的传说

and surprising creatures

5中国文明是世界最古老的文明Chinese civilization is the world's oldest

6而如今是最宏博的

and today it's largest

7那数十亿的人民

with well over a billion people

8现存超过五十个民族

It's home to more than 50 distinct ethnic groups

9以及各式各样贴近自然的

and a wide range of traditional life styles

10传统生活方式

often inclose partnership with nature

11我们都知道中国面对着着众多社会环境问题

We know that China faces immense social and environmental problems

12但这里也存在着令人窒息的美丽but there is great beauty here

too

13中国有着世界最高峰

China is home to the world's

highest mountains,

14从无垠的炙热沙漠

vast deserts ranging from

from searing hot

15到麻木大脑的寒冷地带

to mind numbing cold

16以及那蒸笼般的森林中

steaming forests

17隐匿的各种珍稀生物

harboring rare creatures

18天际下广阔无垠的草原

grassy plains beneath vast

horizons

19以及富饶的热带海洋

and rich tropical seas

20现在我们第一次有机会

Now, for the first time ever

21深入探索这片伟大的土地

we can explore the whole of

this great country

22接触栖息于此的珍奇生物

meet some of the surprising

and exotic creatures that live

here

23目睹中国这片神奇土地上

and consider the relationship

of the people and wildlife of

China

24人与野生世界的羁绊

to the remarkable

landscaping which they live

25这就是最原味的中国

This is wild China

26仅以此献给我们多灾多难但

美丽依旧的祖国

For our troubled but

drop-dead beautiful

motherland

26我们的中国探索之旅始于南

方的亚热带

Our exploration of China

begins in the warm

subtropical south

27漓江的渔人和鱼鸟栖坐在竹

筏上

On the Li River fishermen

and birds perch on bamboo

rafts

28这个组合已延续千年之久

a partnership that goes back

more than a thousand years

29这景致已为世人所熟悉

This scenery is known

throughout the world

30那是中国水墨永恒的主题

a recurring motif in Chinese

paintings

31和旅人永远的胜地

and a major tourist attraction

32中国南部是片有英国国土

The south of China is a vast

area

33九倍之大的广阔土地

eight times larger than the

UK

34这里

It's a landscape of hills

35是山雨的国度

but also of water

36这里一年之中有250天在降雨

It rains here for up to 250 days a year

37到处都是积水

and standing water is everywhere

38在扬子江的涝原

In a floodplain of the Yangtse River

39黑尾鹬在泥泞中寻索着虫子black-tailed godwits probe the mud in search of worms

40并非只有野生动物在这样的环境下茁壮成长

But it isn't just wildlife that thrive in this environment

41沼泽般湿润肥沃的土地为作物家族最显著的成员提供了最理想的环境

the swampy ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass family

42这就是稻米

rice

43中国有着至少8000年的稻米种植史

The Chinese have been cultivating rice for at least 8 thousand years 44他们改变了这块土地

It has transformed the

landscape

45对云南南部的农民而言冬

末是个繁忙的季节

Late winter in southern

Yunnan is a busy time for

local farmers

46因为他们要为即将来临的春

天整顿这片古老的稻田

as they prepare the age-old

paddy field

ready for the coming spring

47元阳县的山坡以2000M之势

These hill slopes of

Yuanyang county

48斜插于红河谷地的河床

plunge nearly 2000m to the

floor of the Red River Valley

49包含了上千由原始刨掘工具

所创造出的梯田

each contains literally

thousands of stack terraces

carved out by hand using

basic digging tools

50云南的梯田是中国最古老人

类耕作痕迹中

Yunnan's rice terraces are

among the oldest human

structures in China

51依旧被耕种使用的土地

still ploughed as they always

have been

52正如千百年来的习俗一样

by domesticated water

buffaloes

53源自云南河谷的家养水牛承

担了耕作的重任

whose ancestors originated

in these very valleys

54这片人力开拓的土地是工业

化前中国最惊奇宏伟的壮景

This man-made landscape is

one of the most amazing

engineering feats of

preindustrial China

55似乎这里的每一寸土地

It seems as if every square

inch of land

56都被打上了农耕的痕迹

has been pressed into

cultivation

57当薄暮降临

As evening approaches

58另一场古老的仪式上演

an age-old ritual unfolds

59现在是交配的季节

It's the mating season

60雄禾田蛙们为了吸引异性而

卖力高鸣

and male paddy frogs are

competing for the attention

of females

61但这并非总能为你吸引来关

注的目光

But it dosen't always pay to

draw too much attention to

youself

62中国池鹭是个饕餮掠食者

The Chinese Pond Heron is a

crapulous predator

63就算在耕作过的稻田中央