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本书承袭雷切尔卡逊《寂静的春天》的远见卓识，让我们注意到视为理所当然的美，并且敲响了迫在眉睫的环保警钟。曾获艾美奖的声音生态学家戈登汉普顿发出警语，大自然的寂静是美国消失最快的资源，他的使命便是在这些抚慰心灵的地球声境因与日俱增的人为噪音而消失之前，完整地录制并保存这些丰富多样的声音。这部叙事优美的作品，让人想起国家公园之父约翰缪尔（JohnMuir）、普利策奖得主约翰麦克非（JohnMcPhee）、自然学者和作家彼得马修森（PeterMatthiessen）书写自然的大作，也是典型的美国故事，驾着1964年福斯小巴从西到东横越美国大陆之旅。但汉普顿的旅程如此与众不同。他背着录音器材和测量音量的分贝计，好奇又深情地倾听大地多彩的自然之声。他与旅程中邂逅的人细说寂静，耐心倾听。抵达目的地华盛顿特区时，汉普顿已完成饶富意义又令人难忘的美国"声音心电图"，并在当地拜会联邦官员，极力主张保护自然的寂静。《一平方英寸的寂静》不仅仅是一本书而已，也是真实存在的地方，位于美国华盛顿州奥林匹克国家公园（OlympicNationalPark）霍河雨林（HohRainForest）实际的方寸之地，可能是美国最后留有自然寂静的地方之一。这次充满启发性的宁静探索，使得如今美国生态议程中已纳入大自然的宁静。 In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation's fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has made it his mission to record and preserve it in all its variety-before these soul-soothing terrestrial soundscapes vanish completely in the ever-rising din of man-made noise. Recalling the great works on nature written by John Muir (Father of the National Park), John McPhee (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Peter Matthiessen (a naturalist and writer), this beautifully written narrative, co-authored with John Grossmann, is also a quintessentially American story-a road trip across the continent from west to east in a 1964 VW bus. But no one has crossed America like this. Armed with his recording equipment and a decibel-measuring sound-level meter, Hempton bends an inquisitive and loving ear to the varied natural voices of the American landscape. He is an equally patient and perceptive listener when talking with people he meets on his journey about the importance of quietness in their lives. By the time he reaches his destination, Washington, D.C., where he meets with federal officials to press his case for natural silence preservation, Hempton has produced a historic and unforgettable sonic record of America. More than simply a book, it is an actual place, too, located in one of America's last naturally quiet places, Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park in Washington State. The fully enlightening exploration into quietness has driven the tranquility of nature to be included in the ecological agenda of the United States.

这是一本森林观测笔记。在这本书里，一位生物学家以一年的时间为主线，在每次的观测中，为我们揭开藏森林一平方米地域里的秘密。在这本完全原创的书里，生物学家戴维以一小片森林作为整个自然界的缩影，向我们生动地展示了这片森林和居住其中的栖息者的生活状况。书的每一章都以一次简单的观察结果作为开头，比如藏在落叶层里的火蜥蜴，春天里野花的初次绽放。通过这些观察，戴维织就了一个生物生态网，向人们解释了把最小的微生物和最大的哺乳动物联系起来的科学观点，并描述了延续数千年甚至数百万年的生态系统。戴维每天都会在这片森林里漫步，梳理出各种以大自然为家的动植物间复杂而又微妙的关系，因此每一次寻访对于他来说，都象征着一个自然故事的缩影。本书优美的语言使读者把阅读过程看作一次寻找大自然奥秘的盛大旅行，而作者则像导游，带领大家探索存在于我们脚下或者藏在我们后院里的奇妙世界。 The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature is a forest observation note. In this book, a biologist reveals the secret world hidden in one square meter of forest in each of his observations in a year's time. In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands-sometimes millions-of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home. Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.

这本小书，带领你走进奇妙的成语世界。它将告诉你成语的形式、成语的结构、成语的修辞、成语的魅力、成语的来源，帮助你解读成语的趣味性、文学性、知识性、哲理性、思想性，帮助你澄清容易读错、写错、用错的成语。你会发现，成语世界是巨大的知识宝库，不愧是中华传统文化中的无价瑰宝。书里还给你介绍五花八门的成语游戏，可供你玩味，供语文教学和语文竞赛选用。希望这本小书能使你深切地感受到成语世界的博大精深和无穷意蕴。 This little book will lead you into the wonderland of idioms. It will teach you the form, structure, rhetoric, charm and source of idiom, help you understand idiom from the interesting, literary, intellectual, philosophical and ideological perspectives and help you learn the easily misread, wrongly written and used idioms more profoundly in your heart. You will find the world of idioms to be an enormous knowledge base and indeed the priceless treasures of traditional Chinese culture. The book also offers a wide variety of idiom games for the students to play and the teachers to select from for language teaching and language contest purposes. I hope this book could lead you to the world of idioms of profound and unbounded significance.