We have altered our planet: we've created huge structures, mined and stripped mountains, removed rainforests, and drained swamps.

我们已经改变了我们的行星，我们建造了巨大的建筑，开采了矿物并移走了山脉，雨林和地。

When they tried to cross the marsh, their shoes sank into the soft ground.

当他们准备过地时，他们的鞋子陷进了柔软的地里。

In a wetland or in dense growth, you are very hard to spot.

在地或是灌木丛生的树林里，你很难被发现。

Our correspondent Janot Bryan met the new curator at a swamp in Marryland.

本台记者加诺·布莱恩在马里兰州的片地约见了新馆长。

Frogs live near wet places to keep their skin moist.

青蛙靠近地居住以保持表皮润。

In Zanzibar, for example, they're being used to spray wetlands against malaria.

例如，在桑给巴尔，它们被用来喷洒地来防治疟疾。

In the capital, Kampala, a number of wetland systems are responsible for drainage.

在首都坎帕拉，地系统负责排水。

They take the form of ponds, streams, rivers, bogs and swamps.

它们以湖泊、河流、小溪、沼泽以及地的形式存在着。

What happens here will have a bearing on the future of European rice production and the overall health of southern European wetlands.

这里发生的事情将对未来欧洲的水稻生产和南欧地的整体健康产生影响。

Crested ibises need wetlands for feeding, and rice paddies are the perfect place to hunt for eels, frogs and snails.

朱鹮要在地进行觅食，肥沃的水田是其觅食海鳗、青蛙与蜗牛的绝佳场所。

It's probably going to be in terms of trails, overlooks, wetlands, it's probably going to be the better part of 10 years.

这里将会有小路，露台，地，10年后会更美。

With 29% of the area of the state being covered, Florida is proportionally more comprised of wetlands than any other state in the US.

百分之29的区域被覆盖，佛罗里达州比美国其他地方都有更多的地。

Wetlands are like giant sponges and store water from floods.

地就像是巨大的海绵，汲取洪水中的水分。

See paintings of the Rainbow Serpent, … the wildlife of the wetlands below, … and above, in impossibly high places, paintings said to be created by mimi spirits.

观赏以彩虹蛇为题的画作，牠除了在地上的地生活，也在天上，遥不可及，这幅画据说是精灵米米的创作。

Every acre of land that we use for our own purposes is an acre that can't support wild ecosystems, such as forests and wetlands and savannahs, on which the great majority of the world's species depend.

我们每多开发亩地，野生生态系统就少亩地，无论是森林、地和热带草原，世界上绝大多数物种无不赖以为生。

We are here at the Cox Lagoon wetland which is actually a very critical and important part of a 30,000-acre parcel of land that we have just purchased to protect in perpetuity for the people and government of Belize.

我们现在所处的考克斯泻湖地实际上是个极其关键和重要的位置，它也是我们刚刚购买的30000英亩的土地中的部分，用来永久地保护伯利兹的人民和政府。

But their interconnected lakes and protected wetlands saved them from flooding.

不过，相互连接的湖泊和受保护的地使得他们免于洪水泛滥。

The invasive Burmese pythons are doing very well in Florida's preserved wetlands.

入侵的缅甸蟒蛇在佛罗里达保存完好的地生活得很好。

No amount of positivity, work, or preparation will reduce the chance of say, being kept awake by noisy neighbours the night before an exam or slipping on a wet patch as you run during a race.

再多的积极性、再多的努力、再多的准备也不会减少考试前晚被吵闹的邻居吵醒的几率，或者在比赛中滑倒在地上的几率。

Because the wetlands are the headwaters for the Midwest's rivers and streams.

因为地是中西部河流和溪水的源头。