国家地理:2011年度十佳新闻图片(1)

Web-Wrapped Trees

巴基斯坦蛛网树

Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where massive floods drove millions of spiders and possibly other insects into the trees to spin their webs.

巴基斯坦信德省的一个村落，一片被洪水淹没的农田边的树上出现壮观的蜘蛛网，好似一个巨大的茧。为了躲避可怕的洪水，数百万只蜘蛛—可能还有其他昆虫—爬到树上结网。

Beginning last July, unprecedented monsoons dropped nearly ten years' worth of rainfall on Pakistan in one week, swelling the country's rivers. The water was slow to recede, creating vast pools of stagnant water across the countryside.

2010年7月，巴基斯坦普降大雨，短短一周内的降雨量便几乎等同于与近10年的降雨量，导致很多河流暴涨。随着洪水缓慢退却，巴基斯坦农村地区出现巨大的水坑。

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