美国人制作的40张地图让你真正读懂全世界(组图)

　　25. Legal systems of the world

　　25.世界法律系统

　　Click to enlarge. (Wikimedia Commons)

　　图标从上至下依次为：大陆法系，海洋法系，习惯法，宗教法，大陆法及海洋法，未知。

　　One reason I find this map fascinating is it shows how British colonialism took the English "common law" legal system -- once nearly unique in the world -- and has now spread it across every continent. You can also see that religious law is unique to Islamic countries (although it didn't use to be) and that customary law, once near-global, is now almost extinct.

　　我认为这张地图吸引人的原因之一是，它显示了英国的殖民主义如何传播了英国的海洋法系。它曾经一度是独一无二的，但现在已经传遍了每一块大陆。你还能看到宗教法是伊斯兰国家独有的(虽然曾经并不是这样)，以及习惯法，曾经几乎是全球都在使用的法系，现在已几近消失。

　　26. How far Hamas's rockets can reach into Israel

　　26.伊斯兰抵抗运动组织的火箭能到达以色列多深处

　　View GazaMissiles in a larger map

　　This helps drive home why Israel is so concerned about Hamas, the Gaza-based Islamist militant group, and in particular about its access to Iranian-made Fajr-5 rockets. Those are the ones that can reach into the light-yellow region.

　　这个能够帮助解释为什么以色列对伊斯兰抵抗运动组织，加沙地带的伊斯兰教的武装组织，如此担忧。尤其是对其使用伊朗产的Fajr-5火箭如此担忧。他们能够到达图中的浅黄色区域。

　　27. North Korea's missile range

　　27.朝鲜的导弹射程

　　(Voice of America)

　　绿色为服役中，红色为测试发射中，浅粉色为建造中。

　　列表第一栏为不同型号，第二栏为射程，最后为长度。

　　North Korea makes its missile program sound like a terrifying and immediate threat to the United States, but, as this map demonstrates, that rhetoric far exceeds actual capability.

　　朝鲜让它的导弹项目听起来极为可怕，对美国有即刻威胁。但是，如这个地图所阐述的，修辞远超其实际能力。

　　28. Child poverty in the developed world

　　28.发达国家中的儿童贫穷情况

　　Click to enlarge. Data source: UNICEF. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)

　　图标为儿童相对贫穷率。

　　The United States ranks 34th out of the developed world's 35 countries by child poverty rates, above only Romania. The United States doesn't do much better on overall child well-being.

　　在儿童贫穷率上，美国在35个发达国家中排名34，只比罗马尼亚高。美国在总的儿童福利上做得也不比这个好。加拿大华人网 http://www.sinoca.com/