When I arrive, the sun has just begun to dip below the horizon, so I drop my bags at my cabin and race toward an apparent mirage of red and orange peaks, aglow in the late afternoon light.

当我到达的时候，太阳刚刚开始沉入地平线以下，所以我把旅行袋扔在座舱里，然后跑向在傍晚的余晖里清楚可见的红橙色相间的沙峰的蜃景。

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The red stripe is caused by a the interplay of light and cloud in the Canadian Rockies. The light-reflecting nature of the clouds coupled with low sun elevation resulted in this startling effect.

红色条纹是加拿大落基山脉光与云相互作用所致。

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The last light of the setting sun turned the entire sky red.

落日的余晖把整个天空映得通红。

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Any practiced attendee of the Academy Awards will tell you that the best time to glide across the red carpet is at the end of arrivals time, when the setting sun casts a favorable light on those pesky wrinkles and unsightly bulges.

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At sunset, the sun appears red (the blue light has been scattered out of that image, too), so the cells of the eye that detect red are overloaded and incapable of registering weaker red signals.

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