南极(3)
Whenever you're ready, sir,he called to me.
对我喊：先生，您高兴就清上来。
I got out, Conseil at my heels, leaving the two men in the skiff.
我跳下小艇，后面跟着康塞尔，那两个人留在艇中。
Over an extensive area, the soil consisted of that igneous gravel called tuff, reddish in color as if made from crushed bricks.
土质在很长的空间上现出锗红色的凝灰岩，就像一层层的砖石构成的一样。
The ground was covered with slag, lava flows, and pumice stones.
火山的烧石，喷出的火石，浮石的石屑遍布地上。
Its volcanic origin was unmistakable.
人们不可能不认识这陆地的构成是火山的来源。
In certain localities thin smoke holes gave off a sulfurous odor, showing that the inner fires still kept their wide-ranging power.
在某些地方还有轻微的喷烟，发出硫磺气味，证明内部的火仍然保持着它伸张发展的力量。
Nevertheless, when I scaled a high escarpment, I could see no volcanoes within a radius of several miles.
可是，我攀上一座高耸的悬崖，半径几海里的圆周内望不见火山。
In these Antarctic districts, as is well known, Sir James Clark Ross had found the craters of Mt.Erebus and Mt.Terror in fully active condition on the 167th meridian at latitude 77 degrees 32.
大家知道，在南极地带内，，詹姆斯·罗斯在东经160度，纬度77度32分上，找到了还在活动的爱列贝斯和铁罗尔火山喷口。
The vegetation on this desolate continent struck me as quite limited.
这个荒凉大陆的植物看来是极端有限。
A few lichens of the species Usnea melanoxanthra sprawled over the black rocks.
一些单条黑色的苔藓品种丛生，铺在黑色岩石上。
The whole meager flora of this region consisted of certain microscopic buds, rudimentary diatoms made up of a type of cell positioned between two quartz-rich shells, plus long purple and crimson fucus plants, buoyed by small air bladders and washed up on the coast by the surf.
某种微生草木，原始硅藻，在两片介壳中间聚起来的石英质的细胞植物，真红和猩红的黑角菜，紧贴在退潮送到岸上来的鱼类上面，以上就是组成这个地方的整个植物界。
The beach was strewn with mollusks: small mussels, limpets, smooth heart-shaped cockles, and especially some sea butterflies with oblong, membrane-filled bodies whose heads are formed from two rounded lobes.
沿岸有一些软体动物，小砚、蛇类，心脏形的光滑贝，特别有那些长方形、膜质、头由两个圆突的耳叶形成的触须贝。
南极(4)
I also saw myriads of those northernmost sea butterflies three centimeters long, which a baleen whale can swallow by the thousands in one gulp.
我又看到有无数北方的触须贝，长三厘米；鲸鱼每一口就吞食它们一大群。
The open waters at the shoreline were alive with these delightful pteropods, true butterflies of the sea.
这些美丽的翼步类动物，真正是海中的蝴蝶使这海岸边缘的流动海水生动活泼起来;
Among other zoophytes present in these shallows, there were a few coral tree forms that, according to Sir James Clark Ross, live in these Antarctic seas at depths as great as 1,000 meters;
植虫类里面出现在海底深处的，有些珊瑚树，根据詹姆斯、，罗斯盼观察，这些珊瑚树在南极海中，一直到一千米深处都可以生活。
then small alcyon coral belonging to the species Procellaria pelagica, also a large number of starfish unique to these climes, plus some feather stars spangling the sand.
其次，有属于海胞类的小翡翠珊瑚一以及这一带地区待有的许多海燕一和散布在地上的许多海星。
But it was in the air that life was superabundant.
但生活丰富洋溢的地方是在空中小在空中，
There various species of birds flew and fluttered by the thousands, deafening us with their calls.
有无数种类不同的乌类飞翔上下，鸣声嘈杂，震聋了我们的耳朵。
Crowding the rocks, other fowl watched without fear as we passed and pressed familiarly against our feet.
另有其他的鸟类拥挤在岩石上，它们一点不怕，看着我们走过。
These were auks, as agile and supple in water, where they are sometimes mistaken for fast bonito, as they are clumsy and heavy on land.
并且很亲热地聚在我们脚边。那是在水中也一样轻快和便捷的企鹅，有时人们把它们和迅速的辊鸟混同；但锟鸟在地上是不灵便和很笨的，
They uttered outlandish calls and participated in numerous public assemblies that featured much noise but little action.
它们发出古怪的叫声、成群无数齐集一起，它们动作姿势很少，但叫喊却十分厉害！
Among other fowl I noted some sheathbills from the wading-bird family, the size of pigeons, white in color, the beak short and conical, the eyes framed by red circles.
在鸟类中间，我看见有涉水鸟科的南极水鸟。它们跟鸽子一般大校白色，有锥形的短嘴，眼睛圈在红圈中。
Conseil laid in a supply of them, because when they're properly cooked, these winged creatures make a pleasant dish.
康塞尔捉这种鸟作食物，因为这类飞禽烹调得适当，是味道很美的食物。
