南极洲

A chain of smaller islands is nearby. The islands and the land mass are joined into one continent by a thick blanket of ice.

文章第三段的前部分，描述了南极洲存在着大量的冰，并且那些冰终年不化，于是我们就能自然而然的想到，那儿的温度也是非常之低的了。

A chain of smaller islands is nearby. The islands and the land ma are joined into one continent by a thick blanket of ice.

文章第三段的前部分，描述了南极洲存在着大量的冰，并且那些冰终年不化，于是我们就能自然而然的想到，那儿的温度也是非常之低的了。

Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

虽然覆盖了冰，南极洲却是世界上最干旱的地方，绝对湿度比戈壁沙漠还要低。

Safe for the moment from predaceous leopard seals, chinstrap penguins are the second most abundant species in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic.

可以暂时的安全防备海豹的猎杀，帽企鹅是第二的最多丰富的物种在南极洲和亚南极洲。

Following counties are not included in the insurance coverage: In Asia: Afghanistan, Iraq, Cocos Islands, East Timor, British Indian Ocean Territories, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Palestine, Sri Lanka In Africa: Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, Western Sahara, Saint Helena, Angola In the Pacific Rim: American Samoa, Bouvet Island, Christmas Island, French Southern Territories, Heard and McDonald, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Pitcairn, Solomon Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, US Minor outlying islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna.

拒保国家和地区 The Countries and Territories where Assistance is not available 以下国家作拒保处理：亚洲：阿富汗，伊拉克，科科斯群岛，东帝汶，英属印度洋领地，以列，黎巴嫩，伊朗，巴勒斯坦，斯里兰卡；非洲：厄立特里亚，卢旺达，索马里，西撒哈拉，圣赫勒拿岛，安哥拉；大洋洲：美属萨摩亚群岛，布维岛，圣诞岛，属太平洋领地，赫德岛和麦克唐纳群岛，基里巴斯，马歇尔群岛，麦克罗尼西亚，瑙鲁，尼乌亚岛，巴伯儿图阿普群岛，皮特肯群岛，所罗门群岛，南乔治亚和南桑威治，托客劳群岛，汤加，图瓦卢，美国本土外小岛屿，瓦努阿图，沃利斯和富纳群岛；美洲：海地；南极洲：南极洲。

People who love the Arctic for its beauty, not its riches, look enviously at Antarctica, which was carefully parcelled out by a treaty regime designed to stop the cold war spreading south.

那些对北极地区爱其美景而非爱其财富的人很羡慕南极洲，因为南极洲在一项旨在防止冷战南扩的条约体制下被谨慎地加以分配。

June 19, 2008 Scuba Diver, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 1986 Photograph by Bill Curtsinger A crack in the ice shelf, called a lead, gives a diver access to the frigid waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound.

意译：水中呼吸器的潜水员，McMurdo海峡，南极洲，1986年。一条裂缝里面的冰暗礁，叫做人工水道，给予潜水员通过寒冷的海域――南极洲的McMurdo海峡。

The windswept ice of Victoria Land in Antarctica stretches for hundreds of desolate miles.

意译：南极洲图片画廊。那风刮的冰在维多利亚陆地在南极洲的延伸之内，为数以百计的荒凉无人烟的英里。

Following counties are not included in the insurance coverage: In Asia: Afghanistan, Iraq, Cocos Islands, East Timor, British Indian Ocean Territories, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Palestine, Sri Lanka In Africa: Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, Western Sahara, Saint Helena, Angola In the Pacific Rim: American Samoa, Bouvet Island, Christmas Island, French Southern Territories, Heard and McDonald, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Pitcairn, Solomon Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, US Minor outlying islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna.

拒保国家和地区 The Countries and Territories where Assistance is not available 以下国家作拒保处理：亚洲：阿富汗，伊拉克，科科斯群岛，东帝汶，英属印度洋领地，以色列，黎巴嫩，伊朗，巴勒斯坦，斯里兰卡；非洲：厄立特里亚，卢旺达，索马里，西撒哈拉，圣赫勒拿岛，安哥拉；大洋洲：美属萨摩亚群岛，布维岛，圣诞岛，法属太平洋领地，赫德岛和麦克唐纳群岛，基里巴斯，马歇尔群岛，麦克罗尼西亚，瑙鲁，尼乌亚岛，巴伯儿图阿普群岛，皮特肯群岛，所罗门群岛，南乔治亚和南桑威治，托客劳群岛，汤加，图瓦卢，美国本土外小岛屿，瓦努阿图，沃利斯和富纳群岛；美洲：海地；南极洲：南极洲。

Antarctica—Cliffs higher than a hundred feet mark the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, a glacier-fed slab the size of France connected to the Antarctic coast.

南极洲——高耸至上百英尺的悬崖成为了罗斯冰雪架的标志，它是一个面积几乎与法国一样大的冰川层，与南极洲海岸相连。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。