明明是只蝶，偏偏要扮画

翅膀上的名画...

Mexican artist Cristiam Ramos is good at painting on wings of preserved butterflies. He firstly spends several hours cleaning their wings, and then painstakingly paints classical paintings on them.

墨西哥艺术家克里斯蒂安·拉莫斯擅长在蝴蝶标本的翅膀上作画。他先是花费数个小时的时间清理蝴蝶的翅膀，随后再小心翼翼地在上面绘制经典名画。Butterfly wings are very small, which just 12cm in length each, and the texture isn’t altogether right for painting. So, Ramos has to use a magnifying glass to get the details right of the paintings. He spends 56 hours painting each wing on average, meticulously applying one brushstroke at a time.

蝴蝶的翅膀很小，每扇仅有12厘米长，其纹理也完全不适合作画。因此，拉莫斯需用放大镜来确保画作的细节不出差错。他在每扇翅膀上绘画的平均耗时为56个小时，每一次下笔都非常谨慎。

Ramos says he’s been fascinated by butterflies ever since he was a child. Now, the preserved butterflies he uses have been donated to him by his fans from across the world.

拉莫斯表示，他小时候就对蝴蝶非常着迷。如今，他所用的蝴蝶标本均来自世界各地的粉丝对他的捐赠。

Ramos’ work that clearly stands out from the rest is a butterfly with two Da Vinci paintings on each wing—one is the Mona Lisa, and the other is the Lady with an Ermine.

拉莫斯最脱颖而出的作品是在一只蝴蝶的两扇翅膀上画了两幅达芬奇的作品——一幅是蒙娜丽莎，另一幅是抱貂夫人。

Most lovers hope it won’t rain on their big day, and they certainly don’t expect the worst flooding in decades. However, a couple, from the UK, unfortunately encountered this situation. But they decided to tie the knot despite homes, cars and roads submerged in rising flood waters.

大多数情侣都不希望在大喜的日子赶上下雨，更别提是几十年来最大的洪水了。然而，英国一对新人就不幸地遇到了这一状况。尽管上涨的洪水淹没了房子、车子和道路，但他们还是决定喜结连理。On the wedding site of 29-year-old Hayley Caunce and 31-year-old Jamie Traynor, the registrar waded to the ceremony, just making it there two hours late. And there was no dance floor, no DJ and no photo booth as businesses were unable to attend. But what was moving was that most of guests came there notwithstanding the rain; the photographer took a tractor to the scene, and the cake even received a police escort.

在29岁的海莉·康斯和31岁的杰米·特雷纳的婚礼上，婚礼登记员涉水赶来，只是迟到了两个小时。而且婚礼现场没有舞池、没有DJ，也没有照相亭，因为负责的商家无法到场。但令人感动的是，大部分嘉宾还是冒雨而来，摄影师也是搭乘了拖拉机的顺风车赶到现场，而婚礼蛋糕更是由警察护送过来的。

Outdoor-loving Jamie and Hayley brought along their welly boots and after they finished, the photographer persuaded them to pose in the middle of a flooded road.

热爱户外运动的新人杰米和海莉一直都随身带着长筒雨靴。在他们举行完仪式后，摄影师还说服他们在一段被洪水淹没的路中间拍了照。But the photographer of six years was rewarded with stunning shots of bedraggled guests and romantic photographs of one set of newlyweds kissing in a flooded road in their wellies.

但这些付出都是值得的，这位从业六年的摄影师在婚礼上拍出了许多惊艳的照片：有浑身湿透的嘉宾的照片，还有一组新郎新娘脚穿长筒雨靴、在洪水路上接吻的浪漫美照。

Emma Postlethwaite was stunned when she found an enormous 167g egg which was laid by her hen at her home in Staffordshire, Britain.

来自英国斯塔福德郡的艾玛·波斯尔思韦特发现自己家中的母鸡产下一颗重达167克的巨蛋，震惊不已。When Emma cracked the giant egg over a pan, she found another fully-formed one inside. She then cracked the smaller egg, which also has a yolk and white inside.

当艾玛把这颗巨型鸡蛋打进锅中时，发现里面还藏了另一颗完整的鸡蛋。然后她打开了那个小点儿的鸡蛋，里面也有蛋黄和蛋白。Emma said she keeps four hens in the garden and eats the eggs they lay. The “egg inside an egg” was laid by an eight-month-old hen. She said, “I opened the coop and saw it, I just couldn’t believe how big it was. I have not seen anything like this, and I did not know it could happen really.”

艾玛表示她在花园里养了4只鸡，吃它们下的蛋。这颗“蛋中蛋”是由一只八个月的老母鸡下的。她说：“我打开笼子看见这颗蛋，简直不敢相信它会那么大。我从来没见过这种事，也不知道这事能发生在现实生活中。”The extremely rare occurrence is known as a counter-peristalsis contraction and is caused when the hen is in the process of forming an egg in her oviduct and another oocyte that becomes the yolk of the egg—is released too soon.

这种非常罕见的状况被称为“蠕动型痉挛”，其形成原因是母鸡在其输卵管内产蛋的过程中又将形成蛋黄的另一个卵母细胞过于迅速地排出。Usually hens release an egg cell every 18 to 26 hours, but sometimes a second one is released by the ovary before the first egg has completed its journey.

通常母鸡每18至26个小时排出一个卵母细胞，但有时第一个鸡蛋尚未形成之时，第二个卵细胞也由卵巢排出。

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