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Committed to showcasing amazing photography, National Geographic Magazine publishes stunning images shot around the world each day on its website. Taken in locations as varied as the ice of Antarctica or the shores of the island of Larak in the Persian Gulf, the images serve as a daily reminder of the beauty and wonder of planet Earth.
美国《国家地理》杂志致力于展示令人惊叹的摄影，每天都会在其网站上发布在世界各地拍到的酷炫照片。拍摄地点有远在南极洲的冰山或是在波斯湾拉腊克岛的海岸，这些照片每天都会让人领略地球上的美和神奇。

To mark the impending start of the new year, the site chose some of its favorite images of 2015 taken by both the publication's staff photographers and its Your Shot community.
为了纪念新一年的即将来临，该网站精选了一些其员工和Your Shot社团在今年拍摄的2015年度最受欢迎摄影照片。

Your Shot member Clinton Berry captured this photo with a GoPro on Antarctica's sea ice, about six miles from Casey Station. "I studied the movements of the penguins for weeks," Berry writes. "They walked in the same area almost every day. "
上图：Your Shot会员克林顿·贝瑞在南极洲的海冰上用摄像机捕捉到这一画面，当时距凯西研究站有大约六英里。“我研究了几个礼拜的企鹅活动，”贝瑞写到，“它们几乎每天都会在相同的地点活动。”

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The residents of Jellyfish Lake on Eil Malk—one of the Rock Islands of Palau—surround a snorkeler in their midst. The saltwater lake’s golden jellyfish, harmless to humans, spend much of their lives following the sun.
埃尔马尔克岛是帕劳群岛上的一座岩岛，那儿有一片水母湖，里面的水母将一个潜水员围绕在其中央。这一盐水湖中的金色水母对人类无害，它们大部分时间都在跟着太阳转。

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While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran—an island in the Persian Gulf—Your Shot member Pooyan Shadpoor came across the luminous scene in the photo above.
当沿着波斯湾位于伊朗的拉腊克海岸漫步时，Your Shot会员波演· 夏德坡偶遇这张照片中发光的奇景。

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The setting sun shines through the ice on the shore of a frozen Lake Superior, traversed by Your Shot member Ernie Vater to reach this spot. “Part of the beauty of this place is the silence of it,” he writes。
落日的余晖穿过冰冻的苏必利尔湖湖岸的冰层闪烁，Your Shot会员欧尼·法特尔横穿整个苏必利尔湖才到达这个地点。他写到：“这儿的美部分在于它的宁静。”

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The aurora borealis shares the sky with a bright moon in Iceland. Named for the Roman goddess of dawn, the vivid beams of light result from collisions between charged particles released from the sun’s atmosphere and gaseous particles in Earth’s atmosphere.
冰岛，北极光与一轮明月共享同一片天空。这束亮光以罗马的黎明女神命名，是由太阳大气层中释放的带电粒子与地球大气层中气态粒子碰撞产生的。

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Your Shot member Jeff Hester was drawn to make this image because, he says, “I believe this is what our oceans should look like.” But Cabo Pulmo, a marine park off Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, hasn't always been this way.
Your. Shot会员杰夫·海丝特不由自主的拍下了这一画面，因为他说，“我相信这是我们的海洋本应该有的样子。”但是墨西哥下加利福尼亚半岛不远处的普尔莫角公园并不是一直都是这样子的。

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“Ice on Lake Baikal is a very interesting phenomenon,” writes Alexey Trofimov. “Ice ridges, cracks, tears. All this creates unique and fantastic stories.”
阿列克谢·特罗菲莫夫写道：“贝加尔湖上的冰层是一个很有趣的景象。”“冰脊、冰缝、冰泪。所有的这些一同讲述了一个独一无二又奇幻的故事。”