尽管这些挑战，一些植物和动物都能够适应死谷的不友好的气候。
Despite these challenges, some plants and animals are able to adapt to Death Valley's inhospitable climate.
美国本地人趋向于避开死谷，而外国旅游者却为炎热而至，对此美国人是怎么想的呢？
So what do the Americans think of the foreign visitors who arrive for the torrid heat, just when locals from the United States tended to avoid Death Valley?
其实早在1970年代，我在美国加州死谷研究野生驴的时候，就对牠们生活在非洲沙漠山谷内的祖先十分好奇。
Ever since my early research in California during the1970 s on the feral ass in Death Valley, I had been interested in their ancestors in the desert mountains of Africa.
死谷以当年人们在此遇到的艰难困苦而得名，现在每年有50万游客到死谷去领略那变幻无穷的风景，重新体验当时艰难困苦的滋味。
A half million visitors go to Death valley each year, to look at its magnificently varied scenery and to recapture the flavor of those days of privation and hardship which gave the valley its name.
死谷以当年人们在此遇到的艰难困苦而得名，现在每年有50万游客到死谷去领略那变幻无穷的风景，重新体验当时艰难困苦的滋味。
A half million visitors go to Death valley each year, to look at its magnificently varied scenery and to recapture the flavor of those days of privation and hardship which gave the valley its name.
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