瑞士卢塞恩——一把曾用于古代狩猎的弓；一管被压扁的蛋黄酱、一个被丢弃的葡萄酒瓶；一个登山者破损的头盔；以及一座可追溯到罗马时代的雕像……卢塞恩的“冰川花园”（Glacier Garden）正在举办一场新的展览，展出了多年来从瑞士冰川中发现的各类文物。随着全球变暖的加剧，预计未来还会有更多文物被发现。
JAMEY KEATEN LUCERNE, Switzerland — A bow once used to fire arrows in an ancient hunt. A crunched tube of mayonnaise and a discarded wine bottle. An alpinist’s cracked helmet. A statuette dating back to Roman times.
这个展览的名称在德语中意为“冰之宝藏”（Treasury of Ice）。瑞士冰川学家最近报告称，今年瑞士的冰川总体积减少了5.5%，这是有记录以来第二大的冰川萎缩幅度。
The Glacier Garden in Lucerne is showcasing artifacts like these in a new exhibit of relics that have emerged from Switzerland’s vaunted glaciers over the years, with more expected to come as global warming accelerates the thaw. The exhibit, whose title translates as “Treasury of Ice” from German, comes as Swiss glaciologists recently reported that Switzerland lost 5.5% of its total glacier volume this year, the second-biggest decline on record.
“冰川正在以极快的速度消失。在这一切彻底发生之前，我们希望向人们展示这些珍贵的文物——它们记录了我们将失去的宝贵遗产，”这座露天博物馆的馆长安德烈亚斯·布里（Andreas Burri）说道。
“The glaciers are disappearing very, very fast now and before that completely happens, we want to show to the people that this is a very important and interesting archive of what we will lose, unfortunately,” said Andreas Burri, director of the Glacier Garden, an open-air museum.
展览展出了各种各样的文物：牛头骨、靴子、一种原始类型的瑞士军刀、滑雪装备等；同时还展示了来自瑞士冰川的视频、记录冰川融化情况的图表，以及一个模拟冰川流动过程的模型。
The exhibit features an array of relics — a cow skull, boots, a primitive sort of Swiss army knife, ski gear — as well as videos from Swiss glaciers, charts showing the level of thaw over the years, and a mockup of a glacier flow. Some, Burri says, was just rubbish.
布里表示，其中一些物品其实只是普通的垃圾：“那些只是人们丢弃的废弃物罢了。我们并不完全确定它们的来源……但它们确实反映了冰川融化过程中会发现的各种物品。”这些冰川遗留物被堆放在白色的箱子上面，这些箱子通常用于将这些物品从山上运送到实验室，整个展览空间因此呈现出类似仓库的氛围。
“It’s trash. People either lost it or threw it away. We don’t really know for sure,” he said. “But it does give an idea of the variety of things that are now being found as the glaciers melt away.”The remnants from the ice are stacked on top of white boxes that are often used to collect and transport the items from the mountains into the lab, giving the exhibit a warehouse feel.
从一个冰川中提取出的冰柱正在缓缓滴水，这无声地提醒着人们自然环境正在发生的巨大变化。
A cylinder of ice extracted from one glacier drips menacingly, a reminder of the thaw happening in nature, too.
展览展出的不仅仅是坚硬的物品：冰层中还冻结着微量的花粉颗粒、温室气体，以及20世纪中叶核试验产生的放射性物质——这一切都证明了冰川作为“考古宝库”的重要价值。
It’s not just hard items on display: Microparticles of pollen, greenhouse gases and radioactive material from nuclear tests in the mid-20th century turn up frozen in the ice — a testament to its role as an archaeological vault.
例如，16世纪中叶一段异常干旱炎热时期发生的森林火灾留下的烟灰和木炭痕迹被保存在冰层中，证明了近500年前曾出现过另一轮高温天气。
Traces of soot and charcoal from forest fires during an exceptional period of drought and heat in the mid-16th century, for example, are preserved in the ice, testifying to another bout of high temperatures nearly 500 years ago.
虽然没有展出人类遗骸，但倒霉登山者的尸体多年来也相继显露出来。
While no human remains are on show, the bodies of ill-fated mountaineers also have emerged over the years.
8月，两名几十年前失踪的比利时徒步旅行者的遗体在卢塞恩以南的特里夫特冰川附近被发现。2015年，两名1970年失踪的日本登山者的遗骸在著名的马特洪峰附近被找到。展览将持续至8月22日。
In August, the bodies of two missing Belgian hikers who had gone missing decades ago turned up near the Trift glacier south of Lucerne. In 2015, remains of two Japanese climbers who had gone missing in 1970 were found near the famed Matterhorn. The show runs through Aug. 22.