试听90秒E01 极速阅读（上）| 你看上去很好rua：国家地理记者初遇滚滚

Episode 1

第一集

In almost every photo from our 1986family vacation to Washington, D.C., I am showing off the souvenir I picked outfrom the gift shop at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo—a white, oversize, cottonsweatshirt with puff-paint pandas dancing on the front. I was nine years old.Not even midsummer heat could deter me from keeping that sweatshirt onthroughout the trip.

在1986年我们全家前往华盛顿特区度假的时候，每张照片里，我都在炫耀我从史密森尼国家动物园的礼品店挑选的纪念品，一件白色、超大号纯棉卫衣，这件卫衣的胸前印有发泡立体印花的跳舞熊猫。我当时九岁。即使是仲夏的酷暑，也无法阻止我在整个旅行过程中一直穿着这件卫衣。 

I remembervery little from the vacation, aside from the thrill of being at the zoo andseeing the giant pandas, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing——star attractions on the tourist circuit.

除了在动物园见到了游客必前去打卡的明星大熊猫玲玲和兴兴的激动，这段旅行几乎没有给我留下来别的记忆了。

（图片来源：国家地理 摄影师：Rebecca Hale）

Nearly 30 years later I found myself in the midst of a pool of photojournalists and video crews packed into the panda enclosure. A small cub named Bei Bei was being presented to the world, and I was covering it for National Geographic. 

大约30年后，我发现自己随同一群摄影记者和视频摄制组挤在一起进入熊猫圈。一只名为“贝贝”的小幼崽被展示给了世界。而我在为国家地理杂志报道这件事。

I confess that my childhood love of pandas hadn’t lasted. I lived in D.C. by then. The pandas were just another item to mark off the tourist checklist, and photographing a new cub was part of my job. But I also had children, and, as most parents in the Washington area do, I’d take them regularly to the National Zoo.

我得承认，我儿时对熊猫的热爱没有持续下去。熊猫成了游客必打卡的项目之一，而给熊猫幼崽拍照则是我工作的一部分。那时我住在华盛顿。由于我有孩子，就像华盛顿地区的大多数父母一样，我会定期带他们去国家动物园。

I would join the throngs of residents and visitors pushing strollers up the never ending hill that winds through the grounds. By the time we reached the panda enclosure, my kids would inevitably be hot and thirsty, and sometimes crying. Our visits left me completely drained.

我会在满是本地居民和游客的人潮中，推着婴儿车爬上好像没有尽头的、蜿蜒的山丘。当我们终于抵达熊猫区的时候，我的娃们已经又热又渴，而且有时候还会是已经在哭了的状态。每次去我都是疲惫不堪。

But in 2015, Bei Bei was born to Mei Xiang, and panda frenzy took over Washington. After the photographs of Bei Bei were published, my editor suggested we ask zoo administrators if I could return periodically to document the first year of the cub’s life. They said yes.

但是在2015年，美香生下了贝贝，一股熊猫热席卷了整个华盛顿。出版《贝贝》的照片后，我的编辑建议我们问动物园管理人员，我是否可以定期返回动物园，完整记录这只幼崽生命里的第一个年头。他们同意了。