2026年06月四级第1套长篇阅读匹配原文翻译及答案

A) I was glad I had such terrible jetlag. Wide awake at 3:30 am with our nine-year-old daughter on our lodge balcony, I stared for hours at the most incredible night sky I've ever seen before the dawn slowly started to rub out the stars on the horizon and the multiple shooting stars faded away.

我很庆幸自己有如此严重的时差反应。凌晨3:30，我和九岁的女儿在旅舍阳台上毫无睡意，我凝望着有生以来见过的最不可思议的夜空，直到黎明缓缓抹去地平线上的星辰，一颗颗流星也随之消隐。

B) We were going to my wife's big family reunion in Auckland, New Zealand, but when we found out that Great Barrier Island, just off the coast, had been recently awarded Dark Sky Sanctuary status—a typically remote area that has an "exceptional or distinguished quality of starry nights"—we thought it would be the perfect place to relax before our busy schedule. It's the first island and only the fourth location in the world to achieve this status.

我们本要去新西兰奥克兰参加我妻子家族的大型聚会，但当我们得知就在近海的大屏障岛最近被授予"暗夜保护区"称号——一种通常授予拥有"卓越或杰出星空品质"偏远地区的称号——我们便觉得这里是繁忙行程前放松的理想之地。它是世界上首个获此称号的岛屿，也仅是全球第四个获此殊荣的地方。

C) After a 28-hour flight with two travel-sick children, our hearts sank when we saw the tiny twin engine 10-seater that was to take us the 90 km across the Hauraki Gulf to Great Barrier Island. But we needn't have worried. Whether it was the gravity force of the plane climbing or the noise of the engine, it put our three-year-old daughter instantly to sleep until we bumped down on the grass at Claris Airport. Our first empty sick bag against all the odds... Things were looking up.

经历了带着两个晕机孩子的28小时飞行后，当我们看到那架将载我们飞越90公里豪拉基湾前往大屏障岛的小型双引擎十座飞机时，心一下子沉了下去。但我们其实不必担心。不知是飞机爬升时的重力，还是引擎的轰鸣，总之它让我们三岁的女儿瞬间睡着，一直睡到我们颠簸着降落在克拉里斯机场的草地上。出人意料地，我们迎来了第一个空空如也的呕吐袋……情况开始好转了。

D) Great Barrier Island has no public facilities and the 950 people living there (though only about half permanently) rely on solar and wind energy, and bottled gas for cooking. There are no streetlights. There are no cash machines or banks. The police force comprises a husband and wife, and there's one postman. It's not just the lack of light but the lack of noise that's so delightful on this unique and gorgeous scene. It was first discovered by East Polynesians about 700 years ago and the Maori name for the island is Aotea. Captain Cook gave the island its European name, because it acts as a barrier between the Pacific and the Hauraki Gulf.

大屏障岛没有公共设施，居住在这里的950人（尽管只有约一半是常住居民）依靠太阳能、风能以及瓶装煤气做饭。这里没有路灯，没有取款机或银行。警力由一对夫妇组成，还有一名邮递员。在这片独特而绝美的景致中，令人愉悦的不仅是没有光污染，还有没有噪音。这座岛约700年前由东波利尼西亚人最早发现，其毛利语名字为 Aotea。库克船长给它取了欧洲名字，因为它在太平洋与豪拉基湾之间起到屏障的作用。

E) The climate here is subtropical (亚热带的) like Auckland's. The island boasts a beautiful wilderness with dense forests, glorious, unspoilt sandy beaches and plenty of bays and a few mountainous areas where there are good walking tracks among the wetlands and valleys. You can birdwatch, dive, surf and boat. The best beaches are on the eastern side of the island where the surf is better, too. The sheltered western side is where you'll find the best diving and boating. Lots of people come here for the fantastic fishing spots around the island. Like a lot of spots in New Zealand, there are whale-watching trips and you might just catch sight of sharks.

这里的气候和奥克兰一样属亚热带。岛上有着美丽的荒野，茂密的森林、绚丽而未受破坏的沙滩、众多的海湾，以及几处山区，那里的湿地与山谷间有绝佳的步道。你可以观鸟、潜水、冲浪和乘船。最好的海滩在岛的东侧，那里的浪也更好。较为背风的西侧则是潜水和乘船的最佳去处。许多人为岛屿周边极棒的钓鱼点而来。和新西兰许多地方一样，这里也有观鲸之旅，你或许还能一睹鲨鱼的身影。

F) It's rare to find an island that really does feel undiscovered—but this is it. When one of my wife's relations, who comes here regularly, found out that we'd been there, he whispered to us, only half-joking: "Shh—don't tell anyone!" The locals are a relaxed and friendly bunch—a lot of them told us that it's like what Waiheke Island (now in effect a suburb of Auckland) was in the 1970s when it was a commune of artists and people wanting to escape the city.

很难找到一座真正让人觉得尚未被发现的岛屿——但这里就是。当我妻子一位常来此地的亲戚得知我们去过后，他半开玩笑地悄声对我们说："嘘——别告诉任何人！"当地人是一群悠闲友好的人——他们中很多人告诉我们，这里就像上世纪70年代的怀赫科岛（如今实际上已成为奥克兰的一个郊区），那时它是艺术家以及想逃离城市的人的聚居地。

G) Our guide for some of our stay was the inestimable Hilde Hoven, a Dark Sky ambassador who runs Good Heavens with Deborah Kilgallon and Orla Cumisky. They bring their Dobsonian telescope and beanbags (it's hard work staring up wide-eyed in wonder without neck support) and, our elder daughter was glad to hear, hot chocolate to wherever you are on the island. "It's odd but when the light readings were done," said Hilde, explaining how the island was awarded its special status, "they found there was more light pollution on the northern side coming from Fiji, which is about 3,000 km away, than Auckland to the south. It's pretty dark!"

在我们逗留期间，有一段时间的向导是极为出色的 Hilde Hoven，她是一名暗夜大使，与 Deborah Kilgallon 和 Orla Cumisky 一同经营着 Good Heavens。她们会把多布森望远镜和豆袋（毫无颈部支撑地睁大双眼仰望是件辛苦的事）——还有让我们大女儿高兴的热巧克力——带到你在岛上的任何地方。"这很奇怪，但当光度测量完成后，"Hilde 解释这座岛为何被授予特殊称号时说，"他们发现北侧的光污染更多，来自约3000公里外的斐济，反而比南面的奥克兰还多。这里相当黑！"

H) Beginning their astronomical PowerPoint demonstration using a green laser pointer, Hilde and Orla showed us the Messier 4 spherical cluster (星团) with white dwarf stars (白矮星), Saturn and its rings, the Southern Cross and the Milky Way, which stretched across the sky. Our daughter was especially taken with Hilde's narrating of the Maori myth of Māui's fish hook to explain the shape of Scorpius. In the fable, Māui hauled the North Island of New Zealand from the bottom of the ocean with his hook.

Hilde 和 Orla 用绿色激光笔开始了她们的天文 PPT 演示，向我们展示了带有白矮星的 Messier 4 球状星团、土星及其光环、南十字星座，以及横贯天际的银河。我女儿尤其着迷于 Hilde 讲述的毛利神话——用毛伊的鱼钩来解释天蝎座的形状。在寓言中，毛伊用他的鱼钩把新西兰北岛从海底拉了上来。

I) We stayed at Mount St Paul's Estate, a luxurious lodge run by the friendly Chris and Teara, both from Canada. Teara used to be a chef at the Langham in Auckland and so dinner, eaten around a huge circular table (made of one of the most ancient trees in the world), was every bit as mouth-watering as you'd expect. Eating pancakes on the balcony overlooking the unspoilt white sandy beach was a great way to start the day.

我们住在 Mount St Paul's Estate，这是一家由来自加拿大的友善夫妇 Chris 和 Teara 经营的豪华旅舍。Teara 曾在奥克兰朗廷酒店当厨师，因此围着一张巨大的圆桌（由世界上最古老的树木之一制成）享用的晚餐，正如你所期待的那样令人垂涎。在俯瞰未受破坏的白色沙滩的阳台上吃煎饼，是开启一天的绝佳方式。

J) Another highlight was an hour-long walk to Kaitoke hot pools in the centre of the island, through wetlands and a forest, where we whiled away a good hour sitting in the pools shaded from the heat by layers of delicate umbrella-like plants.

另一大亮点是步行一小时前往岛中心的凯托克温泉池，一路穿过湿地和森林。我们在温泉池里惬意地消磨了整整一个小时，头顶层层纤巧如伞的植物为我们遮挡着炎热。

K) We also loved visiting the potter (陶艺家) Sarah Harrison, who showed us round her studio at Shoal Bay harbour, and her many pots and jugs, plates and bowls and colourful mosaics (马赛克). In her work, she also uses a lot of materials found on the beach. Our elder daughter loved the gorgeous hidden pool at Medlands beach where the water is separated from the sea in a private rock pool. Other high points were the ancient pohutukawa trees and the incredible views of Okiwi Basin and Whangapoua beach from the top of Windy Canyon, just a 10-minute hike through a narrow valley up some steep wooden steps on the eastern side of the island.

我们还很喜欢拜访陶艺家 Sarah Harrison，她带我们参观了她在肖尔湾港的工作室，以及她众多的罐子、水壶、盘子、碗和色彩缤纷的马赛克作品。在创作中，她还大量使用在海滩上捡到的材料。我们的大女儿很喜欢梅德兰兹海滩那处绝美的隐秘水池，那里的水在一个私密的岩石池中与大海隔开。其他亮点还包括古老的圣诞树（pohutukawa），以及从风谷顶端眺望奥基维盆地和旺阿波瓦海滩的绝妙景色——从岛东侧一条狭窄山谷沿着陡峭木阶只需步行10分钟便可抵达。

L) Apparently the island council turned down famous musician Paul McCartney's application to buy a property at Great Barrier Island because of the unwelcome attention he would have brought. You can see why he wanted to come here; equally, the island knows exactly what kind of star watching it prefers.

据说，岛屿委员会拒绝了著名音乐人保罗·麦卡特尼在大屏障岛购置房产的申请，因为他会带来不受欢迎的关注。你能理解他为何想来这里；同样，这座岛也非常清楚自己更青睐哪一种"观星"。