prairies

Growing our food on land that used to be intact forests and prairies is killing the planet, setting up the processes of our own extinction.

把茂密的森林和大草原开垦成农田以种植粮食作物的做法不仅正在把我们这个星球逼上绝路，也是在给我们自掘坟墓。

And for a while we looked on the prairies of Minnesota , where actually there is a very high proportion of centenarians .

一时间我们观察了明尼苏达草原，那里确实有相当比例的百岁老人。

He transformed woodlands and prairies into farmland, turn rivers into lakes and reservoirs, used for irrigation and hydroelectric power.

他将林地和草原改造成农田，使江河变成湖泊和水库，用于灌溉和水力发电。

DURING the Depression of the 1930s, drought turned much of Alberta and Saskatchewan, on Canada's western prairies, into a dust bowl.

上世纪30年代经济大萧条期间，一场大干旱曾将阿尔伯特和萨斯喀彻温，加拿大西部草原两省变成黄沙一片。

From the mountains, to the prairies from the desert to the sea, I'd say California, it means nothing to me.

从山区，从沙漠到海洋的草原，我会说加州，这意味着没有给我。

We are wont to forget that the sun looks on our cultivated fields and on the prairies and forests without distinction.

我们常常忘掉，太阳照在我们耕作过的田地和照在草原和森林上一样，是不分轩轾的。

Wind across the prairies and off the east coast of Nova Scotia can generate electricity.

草原地区和新斯科舍东部海岸的风力可用来发电。

nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest.

美国西南部豆科灌木丛和草地中夜间活动的穴居蟾蜍。

a large wagon with broad wheels and an arched canvas top; used by the United States pioneers to cross the prairies in the 19th century.

有宽大的轮子和弓形顶部的马车；在世纪美国士兵用来通过巴黎河的工具。

'I'm not sure the fate of our country is going to be determined on the prairies of Afghanistan, ' he said.

他说，我不能肯定美国的命运将在阿富汗的大草原上决定。

Dan Laramee walks between grain railway cars as he loads wheat from the Canadian prairies at the Pioneer grain elevator in Alberta, Oct.

8、DanLaramee走在粮食运输火车之间。10月2日是他负责把从加拿大草原运来的小麦装入的阿尔伯达省卡斯兰的先锋粮仓。

Quebec's Forillon National Park protects a range of varied ecosystems, including natural prairies, seaside cliffs, lakes, and marshes.

魁北克的佛罗伦国家公园保护着多种多样的生态系统，包括有天然草原、海边悬崖、湖泊和沼泽。

Over time, the vast prairies the orcs had called home for generations withered away, leaving only red barren soil.

随着时间的流逝，辽阔的草原留给兽人们繁衍生息的土地已渐渐萎缩，到处都是红色的荒土。

The Indian was emotionally attached to his mountains, valleys, or prairies.

印第安人非常热爱自己的高山、溪水和草原。

For two hours we were sometimes led over plains of sand, sometimes over prairies of seaweed that were quite arduous to cross.

在两小时内，我们有时沿着细沙平原走，有时沿着藓苔草地走，相当难走。

As an autumn gray settles, I stand in the middle of one of the last wildflower prairies in America.

灰暗的秋色降临，我站在美国最后一片开着野花的大草原【1】中间。

They've plowed up tenacious old prairies, where trees rarely grew, then left the seedlings and the topsoil to blow away.

他们翻耕年代久远、几乎不长树的草场，然后任由树苗和表层土壤被风吹走。

any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry.

北美洲草原地区的几种啮齿动物，居住在复杂的大洞中，叫声象犬吠。

Grain inspector Jim Dolan inspects wheat from the Canadian prairies at the Pioneer grain elevator in Carseland, Alberta.

10、粮食检测员JimDolan正在检查阿尔伯达省卡斯兰的先锋粮仓中从加拿大草原来的小麦。

More than half of the monitored bird species that live on prairies have experienced population losses.

在北美草原上生活的被检测的鸟类，有一半以上已经经历了数目损失。