With a definition, of course, something like a marshy area of land where the soil near the surface is saturated or covered with water forming a special habitat for wildlife.

当然从定义入手，湿地的定义是指接近地表的土壤被水浸透或被水覆盖，形成特殊的野生动物栖息地的沼泽地。

The lagoon is the largest wetland or marshy environment found anywhere around the Mediterranean Sea.

泻湖是地中海周围最大的湿地或沼泽环境。

It's a rolling, marshy landscape dotted with scrubby bushes and shrubs.

这是一片连绵起伏的沼泽地，其间点缀着矮小的灌木丛。

The marshy conditions of the dinosaur freeway (the reason its footprints formed, and have survived) may, though, have favoured crocodilians over predators that had evolved on drier land.

然而，比起陆地上进化的掠食者，恐龙公路所处的湿地环境（形成并使恐龙足迹得以保存的原因）也许更受鳄鱼目动物欢迎。

Pisa's name comes from a Greek word for " marshy land, " which perfectly describes the clay, mud, and wet sand below the city's surface.

比萨的名字来自希腊语“沼泽地”，它完美地描述城市地表下的情况——包含粘土、泥土和湿沙。

Thanks to their planting of eelgrass seeds over the marshy land, the once-barren ecosystem is now flourishing, and the seagrasses are storing a ton of carbon in their root systems to boot.

由于他们沼泽土地上种植大叶藻种子，曾经贫瘠的生态系统现变得繁荣起来，海草根系中储存大量的碳。

It's a marshy coastal area, and though it's not densely populated, it is home to all sorts of wildlife and nature areas.

这是一个沼泽海岸地区，虽然人口不稠密，但它是各种野生动物的家园和自然区域的所地。

Moose are also excellent swimmers—even the calves, or baby moose, can swim—and will wade into marshy areas to eat aquatic plants.

驼鹿也是优秀的游泳健将，即使是幼崽，或者是小驼鹿都会游泳，它们会为吃水生植物涉水游向湿地。

So the resiliency plan includes returning several areas on the island to their natural marshy state.

因此，恢复计划包括使岛上的几个地区恢复到它们的自然沼泽状态。

Manatees, also known as sea cows, are large, slow moving animals that live in the rivers and marshy coastal areas of West Africa, the Amazon, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico.

海牛又被称为sea cows，是一种移动缓慢的大型动物，它们生活西非、亚马逊河、加勒比海域，以及墨西哥湾的河流及沿海沼泽地带。

The whole country about Red River is low and marshy.

红河附近的整个国家都是低洼的沼泽地。

And there is a kind of marshy lake within walking distance of the site.

遗址附近有一片沼泽湖泊，步行即可到达。

Scarlet Ibises live in wet, marshy habitats  in South America and the Caribbean.

朱鹮生活南美洲和加勒比地区潮湿、沼泽的栖息地。

There's a school of thought that says this is a good place to meet if you don't want things to escalate into a battle because if this ground gets wet it's way too marshy to be fighting a battle.

有一种观点认为，如果你不希望事态升级为战斗，这里是个会面的好地方，因为一旦这片土地被水浸湿，就会变得过于沼泽化，根本不适合进行战斗。

About these Docks are a good few houses, which, however, are not inhabited by many people permanently; I mean, those who use them come and go a good deal, the place being too low and marshy for pleasant dwelling.

这些码头周围有几所房子，但是，并没有很多人长期居住；我的意思是，那些使用它们的人来来去去很多，这个地方太低，太沼泽，不适合舒适的住所。

In 2008, they published a paper in Science, suggesting that when Europeans arrived in the U.S. 500 years ago, rivers on the east coast were marshier and had far lower banks.

2008，他们科学杂志上发表一篇论文，提出500前欧洲人抵达美国时，东海岸的河流更为沼泽化，且河岸远不如现高耸。

Long traveled the 180 miles through the, quote, level, sometimes marshy valley lined with limestone bluffs up to Lake Peoria, where he found Fort Clark, quote, illy calculated for defense.

长驱180英里，穿越这片所谓的“平坦、时而沼泽遍布的谷地” ，两侧是石灰岩峭壁， 最终抵达皮奥里亚湖，那里他发现克拉克堡， 据称其防御布局颇为不当。

And the bonebed was formed in a marshy, aquatic environment - one that dried out from time to time, based on the plant remains that have been found there.

而这个化石骨床形成于一个沼泽般的水生环境——根据那里发现的植物遗骸，这个环境有时会涸。

And we were driving around through the marshy section, but there was a very large lake there that I think you said was the second largest lake.

我们当时开车穿过沼泽地区，但那里有一个非常大的湖泊， 我想你说那是佛罗里达州的第二大湖。

They were working with the existing geology and the hydrology. They took naturally existing small ponds or marshy areas and made lakes out of them.

他们充分利用现有的地质和水利条件。将自然形成的小池塘或沼泽地改造为湖泊，同时保留该区域引人注目的岩石露头，而非像城市其他地方那样将其炸除。