" We do not record them, " said the geographer, " because they are ephemeral."

“我不记录它，”学家说，“因为它是短暂的。”

Let's consider the benefits of maps from a geographer's perspective.

让我从学家的角度考虑图的好处。

Because an explorer who told lies would bring disaster on the books of the geographer.

因为一个说假话的探察家会给书带来灾难性的后果。

Moroccan geographer said the most difficult thing about English for him is the future.

一位来自摩洛哥的学家说，英语对他来说最困难的方就是将来式。

In light of such thinking, in September 2011, a " stakeholder committee" consisting of a geographer, a sociologist, an atmospheric scientist, an engineer and an adviser to Friends of the Earth (an environmental lobby group).

这类思考方的浮现，促使" 利益相关者委员会" 于9月2011年成立。EPSRC任命，由学家，社会学家，大气层科学家，工程师及" 球的朋友" （环境行动--该织顾问）各一位所成。

It's a spectacular... speaking as a professional geographer, spectacular landscape. You know, different, obviously to the south Downs, or Chichester Harbour or Dungeness. But, very, very, obviously, dramatic; mountains and hard rock.

这是一个壮观的......作为一个专业的学家来说，壮观的景观。与南唐斯、奇切斯特港或邓杰内斯明显不同。但是，这里非常、非常、明显，充满了戏剧性；高山和坚硬的岩石。

In 325 BCE, the ancient Greek geographer Pythius said of the Netherlands as he was passing through it that more people here died in the struggle against water than in the struggle against men.

公元前 325 年，古希腊学家皮提乌斯在经过荷兰时说，这里死于与水斗争的比死于与斗争的要多。

With a reduction in snowfall, glaciers in Central Asia will not replenish lost ice, meaning that less meltwater will flow to people and crops in the future, says Troy Sternberg, a geographer at the University of Oxford, UK.

英国牛津大学学家特洛伊·斯腾伯格说：“随着降雪量的减少，中亚失的冰川无法获得补充，这将意味着未来类及农作物的融水会减少。”

The Silk Road got its name in the 19th century when a German geographer identified it as the route through which the Romans got their silk from China.

丝绸之路这一名称得于19世纪，当时，一位德国学家把它看作罗马从中国获得丝绸的通道。

It placed the job firmly in the domain of the geographer, who could use astronomy and mathematics to calculate from the stars what the world looked like below.

该书毫不含糊将这项工作归于学家范畴，因为学家可以使用天文学和数学知识推测从星球上观测下面的球是什么样子。

A French geographer named Francois Elle Roudaire and a diplomat who developed the Suez Canal came up with a similar idea a year later.

一年后，一位名叫弗朗索瓦·埃勒·鲁代尔（Francois Elle Roudaire）的法国学家和一位开发苏伊士运河的外交官提出了类似的想法。

We've come a very long way from the early exploration of the world by sailing ships when geographers only had pens and paper at their disposal.

我从早期通过航行开始的球探测经过了很长时间才到了现在，那时的学家只有纸笔可用。

For a quarter-century, geographer Ronald Dorn of Arizona State University and his students have studied how ants, termites and tree roots affect rock weathering.

亚利桑那州立大学学家罗纳德·朵恩和他的学生25年来一直从事蚂蚁，白蚁及树根对岩石风化影响的研究。

Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and geographer born around 100 A.D., but his name has not been used for any NASA missions.

托勒密是埃及天文学家、数学家和学家，出生于公元100年左右，他的名字还未曾用于美国国家航空航天局任务的命名。

Gary Watmough is a geographer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the lead writer of a report on the study.

盖里？沃特姆斯是苏格兰爱丁堡大学的学家，也是这项研究报告的主要作者。

" What is a geographer? " asked the little prince.

“什么是学家？”小王子问。

The geographer is studying the site.

学家正在研究这个点。

" One never knows, " said the geographer. " I have also a flower." " We do not record flowers, " said the geographer.

“很难说。”学家说道。 “我还有一朵花。”“我是不记载花卉的。”学家说。

Mapmakers may be geographers and cartographers, but they can also be artists and imperialists, storytellers and propagandists.

图绘制者可能是学家和制图专家，但他同时也可能既是艺术家又是帝国主义者，既是故事讲述又是宣传分子。

" One never knows, " said the geographer.

“很难说。”学家说道。