The amount of mineral deposits varies in different parts of the lake basin showing as different colours in the refracted sunlight.

不同位置 湖盆形状矿物质沉积量都不一样于是在折射阳光后就出现了不同色调。

So there's several basins of the lake and straits and almost 14,000 islands.

因此，湖泊有多个湖盆和海峡，几乎有14,000个岛屿。

Here let us carve a lake basin; there, a Yosemite Valley; here, a channel for a river with fluted steps and brows for the plunge of songful cataracts.

这里让我们雕刻一个湖盆；那里，优胜山谷；在这里，一条河流通道有凹槽台阶和眉毛，适合歌唱。

The most beautiful portions of the meadows are spread over lake basins, which have been filled up by deposits from the river.

草最部分分布在湖盆上， 这些湖盆被河流沉积物填满。

Today,   that city is called Mexico City and the entire lake basin is almost completely occupied by 20th  century development.

如今，这座城市被称为墨西哥城，整个湖盆几乎完全被20世纪开发所占据。

The species attains its noblest form in filled-up lake basins, especially in those of the older yosemites, and so prominent a part does it form of their groves that it may well be called the Yosemite Pine.

该物种在充满湖水盆中达到其最高贵形态，尤其是在较古老约塞米蒂山脉湖盆中，它形成树林如此突出，以至于它很可能被称为约塞米蒂松树。

In the meantime the chief Hoffman tributaries, slowly receding to the shelter of the shadows covering their fountains, continued to live and work independently, spreading soil, deepening lake-basins and giving finishing touches to the sculpture in general.

与此同时，霍夫曼主要支流慢慢退到喷泉遮蔽阴影下，继续独立生活和工作，撒播土壤，加深湖盆，总体上对雕塑进行最后润色。

It often happens that while one side of a lake basin is hopelessly snow-buried and frozen, the other, enjoying sunshine, is adorned with beautiful flower-gardens.

当湖盆一侧无可救药被雪掩埋和结冰时， 另一侧却享受着阳光， 点缀着花园。

Then swirling and curving drowsily through meadow and grove, it breaks forth anew into gray rapids and falls, leaping and gliding in glorious exuberance of wild bound and dance down into another and yet another filled-up lake basin.

然后它在草和树林中昏昏欲睡盘旋和弯曲，再次爆发成灰色急流并落下，在狂野光荣繁荣中跳跃和滑行，然后跳入另一个又一个充满水湖盆。