1. Therefore, engineers have removed the water from some wet-lands in order to make useful land. 为了利用湿地,工程师们把一些湿地里的水抽干。
2. This organization was started over twenty-one years ago. Its purpose is to protect land and public resources for people. 这个组织是在21年前成立的, 其宗旨是为人们保护土地和公共资源。
3. They want to build more parks, but land in cities is quite costly. 他们想建造更多的公园,但是城里地价十分昂贵。
4. 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。
5. The man was alone but not lost in the empty land. 旷野中现在只剩下他一个人了, 但他却没有迷路。
6. The amount of land is limited. 土地的总量是有限的。
7. They typically do not inherit land, divorce their husbands, control their finances or hold political office. 她们通常不能继承土地,不能与丈夫离婚,不能理财,也不能从政。
8. Queen Elizabeth and French President Francois Mitterrand will ride a train downward into the $15 billion Channel Tunnel today, crossing the English Channel by land for the first time since it was a marsh 8,000 years ago. 今天,伊丽莎白女王和法国总统弗朗索瓦·密特朗将乘火车进入造价达150亿美元的海峡隧道,首次由陆地穿越8,000年前曾是一片沼泽地的英吉利海峡。
9. 30,000 years ago they went across the land bridge and settled down in new homes. 三万年前,他们跨过连接两洲的地峡,在美洲建立了新居。
10. Kebba Kanga Fofana said the Kinte clan had originated in a land called Old Mali, and from there a branch of the clan moved to Mauritania. 凯巴·坎吉·福法纳说肯泰家族起源于一个叫作“古老的马里”的地方。从那里,家族的一支迁移到了毛里塔尼亚。