He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame.

他又奔跑起来, 继续以他从前稳步前进的姿态, 而且一跑就是数个小时, 也不会迷失在地形复杂的路上。他穿过这片陌的土地笔直地往家跑去, 他对方向的把握足以使人类和人类的罗盘针自愧不如。

Scientists believe that New Zealand has no native land mammals, that only birds and a couple of species of bats existed there when humans arrived.

科学家表示，新西兰本土没有哺乳动物，当人们进入这方土地的时候，这里只有鸟类和一些蝙蝠。

There are no inhabitants of this land of despair.

在这片无望的土地上，人烟绝迹。

At these latitudes, the sun's rays are glancing and not enough of their energy reaches the ground to enable trees to grow.

在这个高纬度地区，太只能斜到这片土地，到达地面的能量很少，并不足以支持树长。

Beef is the most resource intensive food that we commonly eat. It accounts for about half of the land use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the American diets.

牛是我们常吃的最耗费资源的食物。牛用地和所的气体约占美国饮食相关的土地利用和温室气体排放的一半。

At one point, they were scorching the equivalent of a football field every three seconds.

这些火灾一度每三秒就烧毁像足球场那么大的土地。

That's the land grant on the bottom half of the slide.

这张幻灯片下面的就是土地赠与书。

A small but vocal group of Hawaiians and environmentalists have long viewed their presence as disrespect for sacred land and a painful reminder of the occupation of what was once a sovereign nation.

长久以来，少数夏威夷人和环保主义者把那些天文望远镜看作是对那片神圣土地的亵渎，并且会使人们想起这个曾经的主权国家被占领的惨痛回忆。

It is a sacred ground for us.

对我们来说，这是一片神圣的土地。

From what sunny clime hast thou wandered away?

你是从哪片光明媚的土地上悄悄溜走的？

According to the statues, customs and laws laid down by your forbears?

你是否愿意庄严宣誓将统领这个王国的土地和它的人民。并遵循你祖先传下的习俗以及法律。

They render millions of hectares of land unusable, preventing farmers from tending their fields and herders from pasturing their cattle.

此外，上百万公顷的土地因此而无法开垦，农民不能耕种土地，牧民无法游放牧羊。

Mostly on the account of all the industries that went on in that area.

大概是由这片土地以前发达的重工业而衍出来的吧。

The past 50 years of over-farming a lot of land has created real problems on the global basis in terms of having enough irrigable farmland.

过去50年过度耕种的土地在全球范围内造成了真正的问题，因为有足够的灌溉农田。

Cullen and his team have set themselves the ambitious target of bringing back corridors to cover the 60,000 hectors of land, equating to 20 percent of the whole region.

Cullen和他的团队为自己设定了一个雄心勃勃的目标——要恢复覆盖6万公顷土地的走廊，相当于整个地区的20%。

Yes, they thought that travel from the east was impossible, because of the huge, empty stretch of ocean that lies between the islands and the nearest inhabited land.

是的，他们认为从东边过来是不可能的，因为在海岛和最近的有人居住的土地之间隔着一段巨大而空阔的海洋。

It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.

他相信，由于可以用来饲养蹄类动物的土地日益匮乏，以旧方式养殖获得的会越来越少，他“种”的可以用来帮助解决未来全球的粮食危机。

Farmers complain that land is being taken out of use by generously subsidised tree plantations.

农民们抱怨政府慷慨补贴的植树场夺取了他们的土地。

Can anything be done to stop the sand overwhelming this fragile land?

有什么措施能阻止沙漠吞噬这片脆弱的土地吗？

Our land extends as far as the river.

我们的土地一直延伸到河边。