They stepped across the threshold and found themselves on a wide terrace.

他们跨过门槛发现自己来到了一片广阔的台地上，下面就印第安人的广场。

Some of it remained here, cooling and solidifying forming a black gray lava plateau measuring hundreds of square kilometers wide, commonly known as the Rock Field.

它们中的一部分冷却凝固之后停留在这里形成了数百平方公里的黑灰色熔岩台地俗称石海。

But nearby Los Alamos was atop a tableland between mesas, which made it easy to control entry and control any accidents.

但附近的洛斯斯国家实验室位于多台地之间的高原上，这使得控制入口和控制任何事故变得很容易。

The desert of southeastern Utah is a wilderness of flat-topped mesas, jutting buttes and plunging canyons.

犹他州东南部的沙漠一片由平顶的台地、突出的孤峰和低洼的峡谷组成的荒野。

So that's San Diego mesa mint.

所以这就圣地亚哥台地薄荷。

So this is San Diego mesa mint.

这圣地亚哥台地的薄荷。

The dress of the young man who now stepped out on to the terrace was Indian; but his plaited hair was straw-coloured, his eyes a pale blue, and his skin a white skin, bronzed.

现在来到台地上的一个穿印第安服装的小伙子。但他那编了辫子的头发却浅黄色的，眼睛色的，已晒成青铜色的皮肤原白色的。

Vernal pools occur on these mesa tops, which were once at the bottom of an ocean.

春池出现在这些台地的山顶上，而那里曾经海底。

It feels huge to be able to see the expanse of it across the mesas.

- 能够看到横跨台地的广阔区域感觉很棒。

There was a cliff behind it, so that nothing could attack me from behind.

台地后面一处悬崖， 因此没有人能从背后攻击我。

Finally, I reached the other side of the malpais.

最后，我到达了熔岩台地的另一边。

A shrine sits up high atop a mesa overlooking beautiful Zuni homeland.

一座神社高高耸立在台地之上， 俯瞰美丽的祖尼人家园。

We had a little football pitch marked out on Animal Terrace, which was a cul-de-sac.

我们在动物台地的一个死胡同里划出了一个小足球场。

Along with their settlements in the river valleys and nearby hills and mesas, they built multi-storied buildings and ritual spaces on the top of the high ridge, a significant effort for this difficult-to-access place far above the valley floor.

除了在河谷和附近的山丘及台地上的定居点外，他们还在高脊的顶部建造了多层建筑和仪式场所，这对于远离谷底且难以到达的地方来说一项重要的工程。

Around the head waters of the Yuba, Feather, and Pitt rivers, the extensive tablelands of lava are sparsely planted with pines, through which the sunshine reaches the ground with little interruption.

在尤巴河、费瑟河和皮特河的源头附近，广阔的熔岩台地上稀疏地种植着松树，阳光从那里几乎没有中断地照射到地面。

At the northern tip of the island lay Marpi Point, I hope I pronounced that correctly, a plateau some 833 feet above a shore of jagged coral rocks.

在岛屿的北端马尔皮点，我希望我发音正确，那一个高出珊瑚岩海岸约833英尺的台地。

But never again were they in such profusion; this terrace was the well-head, the primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth.

但他们再也没有如此丰富；这个台地井口，美丽涌出浇灌大地的原始源泉。

Now in California, there are these beautiful rock mesas, these views where you see a lot of the rocks and the rugged mountains.

现在在加州，有一些美丽的岩层台地，你可以看到很多岩石和崎岖的山脉的景色。

It's an atmospheric landscape of towering red limestone spires, squats, flat-topped mesa hills, and canyon walls streaked with a dozen fiery hues.

这一幅充满氛围的景象，高耸的红色石灰岩尖塔、矮胖的平顶台地山丘以及布满十几种火焰般色彩条纹的峡谷壁立。

At the beginning of this period, the people farmed on the tops of high, flat, mountain plateaus, called mesas.

在这一时期的初期，人们在称为台地的高而平坦的山地高原上耕作。