The document provides descriptions and images for 17 photos that were voted as the best images of the past year by readers. The photos show a variety of subjects from wildlife like polar bears, fish, and birds, to natural phenomena like rainbows and storms, to human interest stories around the world.

1. The photos below were voted by readers as the best images of the past year...
以下這些是去年被讀者投票選出的最好的圖片。
1. Swallowed whole 活吞
A rainbow trout fingerling peers out from the gullet of a northern pike at the Alaska
Department of Fish & Game aquarium in Anchorage.
一隻虹鱒魚從白斑狗魚的喉嚨裏驚恐地向外看著，這是來自美國阿拉斯加州安
克雷奇(美國阿拉斯加州南部的港口城市)水族館的圖片。
2. A romp in Russia 俄羅斯的嬉鬧

2. A polar bear cub plays near his mother at the Moscow Zoo.
在莫斯科動物園裏，一隻小北極熊在他媽媽身邊嬉耍。

3. 3. Moonshot 月球之箭！
Flying at nearly 35,000 feet, a jet passes over the disk of a winter half moon above
Boston on Jan. 3. The jet leaves contrails in its wake due to the temperature difference
between the hot engine exhaust and the cold air
一月三日，在波斯頓上空 35， 000 的高空，一架噴氣式飛機飛過冬季甲暈
的月球。這架噴氣式飛機飛行時留下的凝結尾是由於其發動機與冷空氣
之間的溫差造成的。 （我本不想譯這句，這似乎在解釋雲的形成。地球人都知道
哇！）
4. Red Square reflection 莫斯科紅場的映象
The Kremlin's Spassky Tower and passers-by are reflected in the wet cobblestones of

4. Moscow's Red Square on Feb. 13.
克里姆林宮的斯巴斯克塔和旅客的身影倒映在潮濕的鵝卵石牆上。
二月十三日攝於莫斯科紅場

5. 5. A galaxy's sharp edge 星系利刃
An image produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, released March 1, shows a perfect
quot;edge-onquot; perspective of the galaxy NGC 4013, with huge clouds of dust and gas
extending above the galaxy's main disk
這是一幅來自哈博望遠鏡的圖片。4013 星雲星團呈現出一幅精美的利刃透視圖。
巨大的由灰塵與氣體構成星雲星團在星系主軌道上漫延開去。
6. Light of the world 世界之光
This composite image shows what Earth looks like at night. City lights highlight
developed areas of the planet.
這張合成圖片向我們呈現出地球夜晚的樣子。城市的燈光輝映出我們這個星球
比較繁榮的區域。

6. 7. Mother and child 母與子
An ethnic Albanian refugee from Selce, Macedonia, and her child look through the
window of a bus as they arrive in Prizren in Kosovo on March 27, after fleeing the
fighting in Macedonia two days earlier.
巴士窗裏的母與子
3 月 27 日，一個來自馬其頓的阿爾巴尼亞難民和她的孩子，爲逃避兩天前的馬
其頓戰火而來到了科索沃。
8. A useful lesson 有用的訓練
A German Shepherd named Pepper sits with two endangered Bengal tiger cubs and a
cougar cub, far right, at the home of veterinarian Rob Zammit outside Sydney,
Australia

7. 在悉尼一個名叫羅布的獸醫家中，一隻叫貝波的德國牧羊犬極其溫柔慈愛地坐
在兩隻瀕危的孟加拉幼虎和一隻美洲幼獅中間。
9. Great white whale 大白鯨
A beluga whale swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium.
一頭白色大鰉魚或叫大白鯨在北美洲的範庫弗峰水族館裏遊弋著。
10.Puppy love 初戀
Crystal, a year-old black Labrador-Dalmatian mix, peers through a heart-shaped hole in
a fence
一隻年邁的叫水晶的黑色拉布拉多混血獵狗，從心形的洞中凝視著他的戀人？！

8. （這句真的用上，也是俺第一次用上這麽多形容詞的排列。以前不太在意，只是爲應付考試，
背下好多例子。唉，書到用時方恨少啊！）

9. 11.The gathering storm 風雨欲來城欲摧
Dark clouds roll over Blair, Neb., on May 9, bringing thunder and flashes of lightning.
5 月 9 日，黑雲挾著閃電路過蘇格蘭布萊爾。
12. The little duckling who could 小鴨子們誰主沈浮？
Mallard ducklings wait their turn May 14 as a sibling struggles to make it up a curb in
South Bend, Ind. The mother, who had already cleared the obstacle, flirted with traffic
for 20 minutes before leading her offspring safely across the busy road
5 月 14 日，小野鴨們排隊過上路沿。媽媽早已跨躍了障礙在那邊等著他們。20
分鐘媽媽不顧車水馬龍的危險，前帶領著她的後代們安全地穿越了繁忙的馬路。

10. 13. Mideast flare-up 中東在濃煙閃光
A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a
barricade of burning tires May 23
一個巴勒斯坦青年躲在躲在燃燒著的路障後面，用他的小彈弓向以色列士兵射
擊。
14. Rainbow times two 雙虹
An afternoon storm brought a double rainbow over downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, on
May 27.
5 月 27 日，俄亥俄州的一個小鎮在雨過天霽後，天空同時出現了兩道彩虹。

11. 15. Fury from above 仰視中的復仇女神
Lightning ripples over the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 14.
6 月 14 日，閃電撕破了德克薩斯州復仇女神的上空的天際。
16. Grand old night 美麗的夜晚
Tanner Mann, 8, of Hortonville, Wis., gets a good seat on top of his mother's car July 4
for the fireworks show at Riverside Park in New London,

12. 7 月 4 日，威爾斯在他媽媽的車頂上找到了一個好位子，觀賞著紐約倫敦河畔公
園的煙火盛況。

13. 17.Un-bear-able heat 怕熱的熊
Koluk the polar bear goes headfirst into the pool at the Albuquerque Rio Grande Zoo in
Albuquerque, N.M., on July 15.
7 月 15 日，在美國新墨西哥州格蘭惠河動物園裏，一隻北極熊把頭伸進水塘裏
喝水。（多像一個剛洗過晾曬的狗熊玩具！）
18. Stellar light show 恒星秀
From ground-based telescopes, the quot;ant nebulaquot; resembles the head and thorax of a
garden ant.
透過地面望遠鏡，“螞蟻星雲”看上去像一隻花園螞蟻的頭與胸。
HOPE THAT U SAW ALL THE PICS... COS NOT ONE OF THEM SHOULD
BE MISSED!!!
THEY'RE JUST TOO SPECTACULAR!!
希望您不要錯過、丟掉您所看到的這些圖片，
他們實在太壯觀，太引人入勝了！