世界上最美丽的十个地方（一）美国大峡谷

We live in a world blessed with sights that are beautiful beyond words. Every human being dreams of and possesses a desire to visit those places in their lifetime. Living in modern cities with high-rise buildings, we tend to miss out on what mother-nature has to offer and some of the man-made structures par excellence.

Look at these places and you will see beauty that fills the eye and warms the heart. It is not only inappropriate to just pick a few places from the huge expanse of the world but also humanly impossible.

They say that ‘beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder,’ and there are perhaps other places that have touched your heart. For this reason, we do not claim that these places we are bringing to you are the best, but they are certainly among the most beautiful places of the world.

我们生活的这个世界有幸拥有许多让人美丽的无法言语的景色。每个人都渴望与梦想在他们的人生中可以游览这些地方。人们现在居住在大城市的高楼大厦里，我们往往把自然母亲奉献给我们的无与伦比的人造的建筑遗忘了。

看看以下这些地方，美丽的景色将让你大饱眼福，心旷神怡。当然，在世界上数不胜数的奇观中，只挑选几个地方是不恰当的，也不符合人性。

有人说“情人眼里出西施”，也许还有其他地方更能打动你的心弦。正因为这个原因，我们不敢称以下介绍的地方是最美丽的，但不容置疑的是，他们属于最美丽的范畴。

A steep gorge by the Colorado River, Arizona in United States, this has the most enjoyable scenery. It is 277 miles in length, 4 to 18 miles in width and about a mile in depth. Scientists are of the opinion that the canyon has been created by the Colorado River over a six million year period.

位于美国亚利桑那州科罗拉多河两侧深深的峡谷是最让人流连忘返的。该峡谷长277英里，宽度在4-18英里之间，深1英里。科学家们认为这个峡谷是在六百万年前是由科罗拉多河冲刷而成。

Native Americans built settlements in the caves within the canyon before the emigration of Europeans. It was also considered to be a site of pilgrimage by the Pueblo people. The first recorded visit to the Grand Canyon by the Europeans was in 1869. Although, it is not the deepest canyon in the world, it is known for its extremely huge size and beautifully intricate landscape. The Grand Canyon National Park is said to be one of the first National Parks in the United States and attracts more than five million visitors a year. Weather conditions in the Grand Canyon vary a great deal between seasons as well as elevation. While winter snow is experienced by the higher elevated forested rims, the inner gorge has a desert temperature because of the low elevation.

在欧洲移民到美洲之前，美国原住民已在峡谷的洞穴里居住。该峡谷被普韦布洛民族奉为一处朝圣之地。根据记录，欧洲人首次来到这个地方时间是在1869年。尽管这不是世界上最深的峡谷，但因其极为恢弘的规模及错综复杂色而享有盛誉。大峡谷国家公园据说是美国第一个的国家公园，每年吸引了超过五百万的游客。尽管，在地势较高被森林覆盖的边缘，冬天白雪皑皑。而峡谷内部因为地势较低则是一片荒漠。