Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, 1980
Photograph by Richard Perry

Water lilies flourish in the tea-tinted bogs of Okefenokee Swamp. The swamp covers an area in southeast Georgia that is about half the size of Rhode Island. Okefenokee is an Anglicization of an American Indian word meaning "trembling earth" and describes the soft, spongy peat moss that gives an unstable feel to the swamp's drier areas.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Wilderness Challenge, 1980)


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Okefenokee野生生物保留地,乔治亚
  Okefenokee湿地茶色浅染的泥沼中,睡莲蓊郁。
  大沼泽覆及乔州东南,地方半个罗德岛,名自英化印第安语“颤栗之地”,以形容其较干地域的绵软苔沼给人的不安之感。
--1980《蛮荒考验》

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bog
An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
沼泽,湿地:底面为酸性和湿软的地带,主要由灌木、草类及一些树的水藓泥沼和泥煤构成

anglicization
To make English or similar to English in form, idiom, style, or character.
使英国化,使英语化:使形式、习惯用语、风格或特点方面英国化或英语化或类似英国或英语化

spongy
Resembling a sponge in elasticity, absorbency, or porousness.
松软多孔的:与海绵一样有弹性、吸收性、多孔性的

peat
Partially carbonized vegetable matter, usually mosses, found in bogs and used as fertilizer and fuel.
泥炭,泥煤:部分碳化的植物物质,通常指苔藓,见于潮湿地区,用作肥料和燃料

moss
Any of various green, usually small, nonvascular plants of the class Musci of the division Bryophyta.
苔藓:任一种苔藓植物门苔藓纲绿色植物,通常较小且无导管
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