BBC美丽中国英文字幕word第一集.doc

The last hidden world
China
For centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscapes
and surprising creatures
Chinese civilization is the world's oldest
and today it's largest
with well over a billion people
It's home to more than distinct ethnic groups
and a wide range of traditional life styles
often in close partnership with nature
We know that China faces immense social and environmental problems
but there is great beauty here too
China is home to the world's highest mountains,
vast deserts ranging from from searing hot
to mind numbing cold
steaming forests
harboring rare creatures
grassy plains beneath vast horizons
and rich tropical seas
Now, for the first time ever
we can explore the whole of this great country
meet some of the surprising and exotic creatures that live here
and consider the relationship of the people and wildlife of China
to the remarkable landscaping which they live
This is wild China
Our exploration of China begins in the warm subtropical south
On the Li River, fishermen and birds perch on bamboo rafts
a partnership that goes back more than a thousand years
This scenery is known throughout the world
a recurring motif in Chinese paintings
and a major tourist attraction
The south of China is a vast area
eight times larger than the UK
It's a landscape of hills
but also of water
It rains here for up to days a year
and standing water is everywhere
In a floodplain of the Yangtse River
black-tailed godwits probe the mud in search of worms
But it isn't just wildlife that thrive in this environment
the swampy ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass family
rice
The Chinese have been cultivating rice for at least thousand years
It has transformed a landscape
Late winter in southern Yunnan, it's a busy time for local farmers
as they prepare the age-old paddy field ready for ing spring
These hill slopes of Yuanyang county
plunge nearly thousand meters to the f