Farmable soil, if you go to purchase it, costs four dollars a pound.

可耕地的土壤，如果你去购买它，价格是四美元一磅。

But the plants in the fallow field give us green manure.

但休耕地里的植物给我们带来了绿肥。

While the south is a lush, lake-filled region, the north—which has half the population and most of the farmland—is more like a desert.

虽中国的南方水资源丰富，充满了湖泊。但是拥有半数人口及绝大部分耕地的北方，却更像沙漠一般。

You can use the Amazon as a source of riches and that may be the reason why people are out there setting fires at night to create more farming land they can use to grow cattle.

你可亚马逊地区作为财富的来源，这可能就是为什么人们在夜晚放火，创造更多的耕地，他们可来养牛。

" The people who work the fields. The people around here have only endless misfortune."

“耕地为生的人们。这儿的人们只有无尽的不幸。”

Drained bogs make up seven percent of arable land in Germany.

干的沼泽占德国可耕地的7%。

This area was easier to access, and had good land for farming.

这个地区更容易到达，并且拥有良好的耕地。

If we ate less meat and more soy, we would need to use a lot less land, which would mean less pressure to convert forests and natural habitats for growing food.

如果我们少吃肉多吃大豆，我们需要的土地就会少很多，这意味着将森林和自地转变为耕地的压力就会减少。

The declines of ice may lead to the opening of Arctic shipping routes and the increase of suitable arable land, however, this can also lead to the intensification of the access to Arctic resources and geopolitical tussles, said Xiao.

肖说，冰川减少可能会导致北极航线的开放和适宜耕地的增加，但这也可能导致北极资源获取和地缘政治角力的加剧。

Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.

现在，一个接一个的农场已荒废成林地了，同时那些寂无人烟的废墟周围和原来种植棉花的地里也悄悄长满了小小的橡树和松树及大片大片的扫帚草。原有的耕地如今只有百分之一还在种植。

Those of the dyed barbarians who had chosen the cultivable tracts were, in comparison with those who had left their marks here, as writers on paper beside writers on parchment.

身上涂有色彩的野蛮人当中，选择可耕地的和在这儿留下痕迹的相比，就像是纸写作的和羊皮纸写作的一样。

To put it in context, Australia has more arable land than Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all have combined.

相比之下，澳大亚的耕地面积比印度尼西亚、马来西亚、新加坡、菲律宾、越南、柬埔寨和老挝的总和还要多。

With them he plowed his land, drew the wheat in his farmcart from field to threshing-floor, and occasionally took the family to Florence.

他和他们一起耕地，他的农马车把麦子从田野拖到打谷场，偶尔带着全家到弗洛伦斯去。

In south Darfur right now, they are only cultivating about a third of the arable land that they could be cultivating.

达尔富尔南部目前只有三分之一的耕地处于中。

India is reckoned to have had over 100,000 varieties of rice a century ago; it now has only a few thousand.

据说一百年前，印度的耕地上有着十万种上的水稻品种，如今只剩几千种了。

These increased harvests mean that 22% of the world's people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in China.

这一粮食产量的增加意味着中国仅仅7%的耕地养活了世界22%的人口。

A series of powerful dust storms in the 1930s destroyed a huge amount of farmland across the prairie states.

上世纪三十年代发生了一系列大规模沙尘暴让那些位于大草原上的州损失了大量的耕地。

Like Muktar's farm, he says lots of children work for him during the harvest including his 11 year-old daughter.

比如穆克塔尔的耕地，他称许多童工会在收割时节耕种，包括他11岁的女儿。

Taking pity on the prince, the goddess Athena instructed Cadmus to till the earth using the serpent's teeth.

出于对王子的同情，女神雅典娜命令卡德摩斯蛇的牙齿耕地。

It accounts for about half of the land use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the American diets.

在美国人的日常饮食中，牛肉消耗的耕地面积及总温室气体放量的近一半。