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A young predator braves the bitter January winds.
年輕的掠食者勇敢地面對(duì)一月里凜冽的寒風(fēng)。
The Arctic fox is about the same size as a large domestic cat, but its thick coat makes it look much bigger.
北極狐和大個(gè)的家貓差不多大，不過厚厚的外衣把它顯得大很多。
A stubby nose and short ears help conserve precious heat.
短粗的鼻子和短耳朵有助于貯存珍貴的熱量。
So does its amazing ability to reduce blood flow to exposed body parts.
它還有個(gè)神奇的能力即減少暴露在外的身體部分的血流。
But the real secret of its success is its fur which covers its entire body including the soles of its feet.
但成功的真正秘密，則在于它那覆蓋全身的絨毛連腳底也都被保護(hù)起來。
In winter, the fox's fur trebles in length giving it the warmest coat in the animal kingdom.
冬季，狐貍毛長(zhǎng)到原來的三倍長(zhǎng)，是動(dòng)物王國(guó)中最保暖的外衣。
It can survive weather that will kill most mammals within minutes.
它能挺過大部分哺乳動(dòng)物挺不了幾分鐘的天氣。
If the going gets tough, the fox can just curl up into a furry ball and wait for conditions to improve.
如果情況很糟糕，它可以干脆蜷成一個(gè)毛絨球等著天氣好轉(zhuǎn)。
The Nordic lands bearing the brunt of winter lie furthest north inside the Arctic Circle.
北歐遭受冬季侵襲最強(qiáng)烈的地方位于最北邊的北極圈之內(nèi)。
This area is vast.
這一地區(qū)極為遼闊。
Spanning the globe from the frozen shores of North America to the Russian border,
從冰凍的北美海岸到俄羅斯邊境，
five countries of nearly 100,000 kilometers of coast line make up Scandinavia.
五個(gè)國(guó)家將近十萬公里的海岸線圍成了斯堪的納維亞。
Over the millennium, the landscape has been gouged and crumpled by colossal corridors of ice and collisions of the earth crust.
千年來這里的地形是由巨大的冰廊沖鑿摧殘而成，還有地殼的相互撞擊。
It's a cruel place to eke out an existence.
環(huán)境嚴(yán)酷之極，只可勉強(qiáng)生存。
In Iceland the landscape itself is still in a state of flux.
冰島大地本身仍是一派奔涌的景象。
Where underground water waves meet hidden lava flows, super heated water turns to steam and explodes as high pressure geysers.
當(dāng)?shù)叵滤ㄓ龅诫[秘的熔巖流時(shí)，過熱的水變成蒸氣，然后突然迸發(fā)出來，形成間歇噴泉。
