四级like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different habitats across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that extend from pole to pole.

与人类一样，杀人鲸也在全球范围内的不同栖息地定居，占据了地球上的每个海洋盆地，其帝国从一个极点延伸到另一个极点。

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六级As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

随着一些国家扩大在南极洲的业务，美国在南半球夏季在该大陆维持了三个全年有1000多人的观测站，其中包括1956年在南极高原海拔9301英尺处建造的阿蒙森-斯科特观测站。

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高考Captain Scott had reached the south pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

斯科特船长于1912年初到达南极，但在返航途中与四名同伴一起死亡。

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高考Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the south pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.

沙克尔顿曾是一名英国商船海军军官，1908年抵达南极100英里以内，1914年出航前开始创业，从电影和静物摄影中赚钱。

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四级Overnight, Chicago reached a low of 21 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, making it slightly colder than Antarctica, Alaska, and the North Pole.

一夜之间，芝加哥的气温降到零下21华氏度，比南极洲、阿拉斯加和北极略冷。

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四级Overnight, Chicago reached a low of 21 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, making it slightly colder than Antarctica (南极洲）, Alaska, and the North Pole Wind chills were 64 degrees below zero in Park Rapids, Minnesota and 45 degrees below zero in Buffalo, North Dakota, according to the National Weather Service.

一夜之间，芝加哥的气温降至零下21华氏度，比南极洲略冷(南极洲）, 根据美国国家气象局的数据，阿拉斯加和北极的风寒在明尼苏达州的帕克急流城为零下64度，在北达科他州的布法罗为零下45度。

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考研The Antarctic is a continent almost as large as Europe and Australia combined, centered roughly on the South Pole and surrounded by the most unobstructed water areas of the world -- the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

南极大陆几乎与欧洲和澳大利亚的总和一样大，大致以南极为中心，周围是世界上最通畅的水域——大西洋、太平洋和印度洋。

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考研Thus, more than a million persons live within 2,000 miles of the North Pole in an area that includes most of Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia -- a region rich in forest and mining industries.

因此，超过100万人生活在距离北极2000英里的范围内，该地区包括阿拉斯加、西伯利亚和斯堪的纳维亚半岛的大部分地区，该地区森林和采矿业丰富。

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考研Apart from a handful of weather stations, within the same distance of the South Pole there is not a single tree, industry, or settlement.

除了少数几个气象站，在距离南极相同的距离内，没有一棵树、一个工业或一个定居点。

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考研Astrophysicists working with ground-based detectors at the South Pole and balloon-borne instruments are closing in on such structures, and may report their findings soon.

与南极地面探测器和气球载仪器合作的天体物理学家正在接近这些结构，并可能很快报告他们的发现。

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