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

碰撞引起的所有地被抹平了。

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

“海格以前从不派人的地来。”它慢吞吞地说。

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 渗入了没有水的地。

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

7000万年前，这片土地像达纳吉尔地一样平坦深陷。

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

沿着地的两侧，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的达纳吉尔地，位于地的大裂谷内巨大的陆地板块在此互相分离。

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管道中，然后小心翼翼地把水抽进用石头和泥土砌成的一些地中。

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.

他坐在地中柔软多汁的植物上，四周一片静寂，只听见基尼发出的丁当声，摇骰子的碰撞声，和那不顾一切的赌博者的惊呼声。

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，发现他已经来一片宽阔地的边缘，地里的树木被清除了，星星照亮了他有生以来见过的最可怕的景象。