And any depression that the impact caused would had been smoothed over.

碰撞引起所有被抹平了。

“Hagrid has never sent men into our hollow before, ” he said slowly.

“海格以前从不派人到来。”它慢吞吞说。

The white-hot magma has cracked the cement slab and seeped into the empty basin.

高热岩浆已经将水泥板烧裂 渗入了没有水。

Seventy million years ago, this land was just as flat and as deep as the Danakil Depression.

7000万年前，这片土像达纳吉尔一样平坦深陷。

All along the sides of the hollow, Indian ponies had bitten the grasses short.

沿着两侧，印度小马把草咬短了。

This is the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, lying within a colossal rent in the Earth's surface where giant land masses are pulling away from one another.

这里是埃塞俄比亚境内达纳吉尔，位于面大裂谷内巨大陆板块在此互相分离。

Horizontal glaciers are formed when farmers redirect glacier meltwater into channels and pipes, then carefully siphon it off into a series of basins made from stones and earth.

农民将冰川融水引流到管道中，然后小心翼翼把水抽进用石头和泥土砌成一些中。

Amid the soft juicy vegetation of the hollow in which they sat, the motionless and the uninhabited solitude, intruded the chink of guineas, the rattle of dice, the exclamations of the reckless players.

他坐在中柔软多汁植物上，四周一片静寂，只听见基尼发出丁当声，摇骰子碰撞声，和那不顾一切赌博者惊呼声。

Craning his neck sideways, he realized that they had reached the rim of a vast hollow, a hollow that had been cleared of trees, so that the stars shone brightly onto the worst scene he had ever clapped eyes upon.

他把脖子扭过去，发现他已经来到一片宽阔边缘，里树木被清除了，星星照亮了他有生以来见过最可怕景象。