The Herdwick Shepherd, James Rebanks, is the latest of several generations to have tended flocks in the Lake District, but he now has a book and 45,000 Twitter followers entranced by the starkly beautiful scenes he photographs every day. Here he explains what his life is like and why his documenting of it appeals to so many people.

　　牧羊人詹姆斯·理班克斯是湖区最新几代放牧人中的一员，他已经出版了一本书，在推特(Twitter)上有45000个粉丝，大家都被他每天用相机被拍下的纯粹自然美景迷住了。下面他给我们介绍了他每天的生活，以及为什么他的记录能吸引这么多人。

　　People have farmed sheep and cattle in the English uplands for 4-5,000 years - it is a culture as old as the pyramids.

　　在英格兰的高地上，人们牧羊牧牛的历史已经长达四、五千年了，这是一种跟金字塔一样久远的文化。

　　The Lake District fells are mostly "common land" - with legal grazing rights held by the graziers (the landlord often has no grazing rights). I have always been involved in the family farm and have worked with the sheep since I was very small with my grandfather. Today we farm about 600 sheep.

　　湖区的高地大都是公共用地，放牧权由放牧人持有(地主通常没有放牧权)。自我小时候起，我就一直和我爷爷在自家的牧场里一起放羊。如今，我们有差不多600只羊。

　　I started tweeting about three years ago, initially as an experiment to see if anyone was interested. It quickly became clear that they were in large numbers. I have written poems and journalism for more than 15 years, and realised that this was a good way to be creative with pictures and words about our way of life. We now have 44,000 followers and some recent video clips of our puppies were viewed 600,000 times.

　　我大约从3年前开始发推特，一开始只是想看看有没有人感兴趣。很快我们就发现很多人都很喜欢。我有15年的写诗和做新闻的经验，我发现用图片和文字记录我们的生活方式很有新意。我们现在有44000个粉丝，最近我们家小狗的一些视频短片已经有60万次播放量了。

　　The Lake District is the UK's nominated site for World Heritage status in 2016-17 - its unique pastoral farming system is a key part of its historic significance. It is one of the world's most amazing surviving historic farming landscapes.

　　湖区是英国境内入选2016-17年世界文化遗产提名的地方，它独特的畜牧系统是给这个地方赋予历史性意义的关键。那里有世界上现存的最令人叹为观止的畜牧景观。

　　The children's author Beatrix Potter left 15 farms and 4,000 acres in her will to the National Trust and specified the need to protect and sustain the traditional Herdwick farming system. The trust owns many thousands of sheep in its landlord's flocks and they are taken on by the tenants of their farms.

　　儿童文学作家比阿特丽克斯·波特在她的遗嘱里给National Trust(旨在保护英国最具历史价值和自然美的土地与建筑的组织)赠与了15个牧场和4000英亩的土地，并指明要用于保护和维持传统的赫德威克畜牧系统。在地主的牧场里，这个组织拥有数千只绵羊，它们由牧场的承包人照管。