We've come a very long way from the early exploration of the world by sailing ships when geographers only had pens and paper at their disposal.

我们从早期通过航行开始的球探测经过很长时间才到现在，那时的家只有纸笔可用。

And thank you to Coach Williams World Geography's second hour from Bethany, Oklahoma for selecting this Wednesday's word perfidious, which means deceitful and untrustworthy.

感谢俄克拉荷马州贝瑟尼的威廉姆斯世界第二课时的教练，选择今天的词汇" perfidious" ，意思是" 欺诈和不可信赖" 。

And so I set out to create a book, supported by the National Geographic Society, on the weirdest, wackiest plants we could find in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world: India's very own Western Ghats.

于是在国家会的支持下，我开始写本书，记录我们能在世界上生物多样性最丰富的区 —— 印度自己的西高止山脉 —— 找到的最奇特、最古怪的植物。

You will hear two geography students talking.

你将听到两个生的对话。

Moroccan geographer said the most difficult thing about English for him is the future.

位来自摩洛哥的家说，英语对他来说最困难的方就是将来式。

It's a spectacular... speaking as a professional geographer, spectacular landscape. You know, different, obviously to the south Downs, or Chichester Harbour or Dungeness. But, very, very, obviously, dramatic; mountains and hard rock.

这是个壮观的......作为个专业的家来说，壮观的景观。与南唐斯、奇切斯特港或邓杰内斯明显不同。但是，这里非常、非常、明显，充满戏剧性；高山和坚硬的岩石。

At last a long article appeared, on the 7th of October, in the bulletin of the Royal Geographical Society, which treated the question from every point of view, and demonstrated the utter folly of the enterprise.

但是没有多久，这家报纸的论调似乎也消沉下去。事实是这样的：10月7日英国皇家会的会刊登载很长的论文，从各方面论证八十天绕球周的问题。

Although municipal water managers are reluctant to talk publicly about the issue, " they're very worried, " says Deepak Mishra, an associate professor of geography at the University of Georgia who studies the global distribution of harmful algal blooms.

虽然市政供水管人员不愿公开谈论这个问题，“但他们非常担心，”乔治亚大研究有害藻华全球分布的副教授迪帕克·米什拉说。

" People sometimes call phytoplankton – which is algae in the water – the forests of the sea, " says Karen Frey, a professor of geography specialising in polar science at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

“人们有时把浮游植物——水中的藻类——称为海洋森林，”马萨诸塞州伍斯特克拉克大专攻极科的教授卡伦·弗雷说。

Penned in Greek on a papyrus scroll, the work, known as the “Geography”, is one of the most famous ancient texts on the science of mapmaking.

该书用希腊文书写在卷莎草上，这部被称为《》的著作是图制图方面最著名的古文献之。

Carter had a close relationship with the National Geographic Society and, in 2000, he explained his ethos in an address at Nat Geo headquarters.

卡特与国家会有着密切的关系，2000年，他在国家会总部的次演讲中阐述自己的念。

Despite being absolutely ginormous, it wasn't discovered until 1994 when British explorers from the Royal Geographic Society just happened to find it.

尽管特别大，然而直到1994年它才被发现，还是英国皇家会的探险家们意外发现的。

Gary Watmough is a geographer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the lead writer of a report on the study.

盖里？沃特姆斯是苏格兰爱丁堡大的家，也是这项研究报告的主要作者。

This idea helped to forever establish him as the father of biogeography, the study of the distribution of living things.

这个想法帮助他永远确立生物分布研究，也就是生物之父的位。

In practice, a combination of economics and geography means that much of its infrastructure is concentrated in a comparatively small number of places.

实际上，说它是经济和的结合，其意为它将众多的基础设施集中于相对少数的空间内。

" Geographical" and " geographic" are both equally popular.

“的”和“的”两者同样流行。

So it would be another example of biogeography.

因此，这将是生物的另个例证。

Investigate the key aspects of human geography including types of settlements and land use.

• 调查人文的关键方面， 包括定居点类型和土利用。

So the ancients were amazingly good at astronomy, date calculation, and there was a geographer from the Hellenistic period, so this is kind of later on into Greek history, called Eratosthenes, and he gave a date for the Trojan War.

所以古人在天文和日期计算方面非常出色，有个来自希腊化时期的家，这在希腊历史上算是比较晚的时期，名叫埃拉托色尼， 他给出特洛伊战争的个日期。

Drawing borders is tricky because they mean a lot to the people who live there, and it's something our own geographers face here at National Geographic, even with all the benefits of modern satellite imagery.

划定边界很棘手， 因为这对居住在那里的人们意义重大，甚至对于我们国家的家来说也是如此，尽管他们拥有现代卫星图像的所有优势。