Artificial villages hardened like scabs over the landscape in Iraq and Afghanistan.

在伊拉克和阿富汗，人工村庄结痂一样坚硬覆盖着大。

Alice did so. 'It's very hard, ' she said, 'but how does that explain it? '

爱丽丝照办了，接着：“坚硬，但这能明什么问题呢？”

But the secret of the Arapaima scales is how exquisitely they transition from the hard to the tough.

但巨骨舌鱼鳞片的秘密在于它们如何精巧从坚硬向坚韧过渡。

The scantiest vegetation can scarcely draw nutriment from the ungenial soil, and animals shun the dreary and shelterless wilds.

稀少的植艰难从坚硬的土壤中吸取营养，而动则避开这些沉寂的，毫无遮蔽的荒野。

Communities of priapulids and other similar organisms changed the seafloor from hard matgrounds to the softer sediment found in the Cambrian.

priapulids 和其他类似生群落将海底从坚硬的垫变为寒武纪较软的沉积。

The human skull is surprisingly strong and flexible, but the delicate hunk of meat inside is more like a blob of jello floating in liquid.

人的头颅是出奇坚硬、但有韧性，是头颅以内那块娇嫩的是浮在液体上的一团果冻。

Barely ten inches high, its horny little feet pattered very fast as it sprinted across the yard and dived headlong into one of the Wellington boots that lay scattered around the door.

身高不足十英寸，坚硬的小脚啪哒啪哒走得飞快，穿过园子，一头钻进散放在门边的一只惠灵顿皮靴里。

You can liberate a fossil from hard ground with a jackhammer, no argument there, but you know as well as I do that the jackhammer is going to break almost as much stuff as it liberates.

你确实能用一柄开山大锤把化石从坚硬的里弄出来，这点没什么好争论的，但你我都知道大锤掘出来多少东西，差不多也砸碎了多少。

Beginning in mid-October in the northern hemisphere, the temperature drops, the nights draw in, the earth turns cold and hard, fog lies low over the land and rain drives hard across the austere, comatose grey-brown landscape.

从北半球的10月中旬开始，气温下降，夜幕越来越早降临，面变得寒冷而坚硬，雾气低沉笼罩着大，大雨滂沱撒向这片荒凉，了无生机的灰褐色土。