在非洲纳米比亚的纳米布沙漠和大西洋冷水域之间,有一片白色的沙漠,葡萄牙海员把纳米比亚这条绵延的海岸线称为“骷髅海岸”,这条5 0 0 千米长的海岸备受烈日煎熬,显得那么荒凉,却又异常美丽。从空中俯瞰,骷髅海岸是一大片褶痕斑驳的金色沙丘,这是从大西洋向东北延伸到内陆的沙砾平原。
这片土地从南到北延伸500英里,而从骷髅海岸到卡拉·哈利草原是75英里。
It stretches for more than 500 miles from north to south, and 75 miles from the Skeleton Coast to the grasslands of the Kalahari.
如果你有幸能够拜访此地,一定不要错过骷髅海岸,这是一个船舶和搁浅鲸鱼的墓地。
Should you ever have the privilege of visiting, be sure to take a trip to the Skeleton Coast, a graveyard for ships and the skeletal remains of beached whales.
几世纪以来, 纳米比亚海岸的浓雾经常酿成船难,使某段海岸线有「骷髅海岸」之称;不过大雾也造就出甲虫特有的行为。
The same fogs that have caused shipwrecks for centuries, giving a section of the Namibian shoreline the name of Skeleton Coast, have shaped insect morphology and behavior.
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