1. Brazil is home to the world’s largest jungle rain forest, the Amazon.
    巴西是全世界最大的热带丛林 - 亚马逊雨林的生长地。

2. The conflict enlarged last year when miners killed a group of Amazon Indians in order to seize their land.
    去年，矿工们为了争夺印第安人的土地而杀死了一群居住在亚马逊雨林里的印第安人后，冲突扩大了。

3. It ended tax favors that had encouraged clearing of the Amazon rain forest, and agreed to a plan to finance new forest protection projects.
    它取消了原本旨在鼓励砍伐亚马逊雨林的税收优惠，而且还批准了给新的森林保护项目提供资金的计划。

4. For decades, the government sought to colonize and develop the Amazon, bringing severe environmental disaster to the area and its people.
    几十年来，巴西政府一直在致力于开拓和开发亚马逊雨林，给这个地区及其居民带来了严重的环境灾难。