Romans established every major city near a saltworks and for some time, roman troops were paid in salt; Britain lost control of its American and Indian colonies when it lost control of their salt supplies.

罗人的每一个主要城市都建在盐田附近，在某一时期，罗的薪水就是盐；当英国人失去对当地食盐的控制时，他们也失去了对美洲和印第安殖民地的控制。

And he does fieldwork in the salt pans with his colleague Marilia Freire.

他和同事玛莉亚·弗莱雷一起在盐田实地考察。

It's easy to get lost in the salt pans of Tunisia, these featureless plains in the desert where the ground is sometimes the blinding white color of salt.

在突尼斯的盐田很容易迷失方向——沙漠中这些毫无特征的平地，地面有时呈人炫目的盐白色。

These are like volcano-looking humps in the salt pan, sometimes more than 10 inches tall.

这些小丘就像盐田上的火山状驼峰，有时达到十几英寸高。

You know, there are the salines there.

你知道，那里有盐田。

However, this area also has wonderful long beaches, white  sand dunes, and saltpans.

然而，这片区域还拥有迷人的长滩、洁白的沙丘和盐田。

He ran through the desert; he ran through the mountains; he ran through the salt-pans; he ran through the reed-beds; he ran through the blue gums; he ran through the spinifex; he ran till his front legs ached.

他跑过沙漠；他跑过群山；他穿过盐田；他跑过芦苇丛；他穿过蓝色的牙龈；他跑过纺车；他一直跑到前腿疼为止。

There's evidence of a salt pan going back to at least 6000 BC in Shanxi province in northern China.

在中国北部的山西省，有证据表明早在公元前6000年就存在盐田。

They are like volcano-looking humps in the salt pan, sometimes more than 10 inches tall.

它们就像盐田里火山一样的驼峰， 有时超过 10 英寸高。