1. The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aeroplanes.
    飞机把这种草籽大量地撒播在地上。

2. Today´s cities operate largely on a single plane — the ground.
    现在的城市主要在一个平面上活动——即地面。

3. The creature was on the ground, some distance ahead of him, half hidden by undergrowth and deep shade.
    那只动物在前面离他不远的地面上；矮树丛和纵深的树荫将它遮住了一半。

4. This realization now entered my life like a flow of water dividing previously dry and solid ground, creating two banks, one of which was my past — so familiar and predictable that even my unhappiness then made me happy now just to think of it;
    这种认识就象一股水流一样流进我的生活，把先前干涸坚实的土地一分为二，造成了河流的两岸。河岸的一边是我的过去——这对我来说是如此熟悉, 如此地可以预料，以至于我只要想到它，原先使我感到不快的东西也会使现在的我变得开心起来。

5. They carry all of the water away. Not much water can sink into the holding areas under the ground.
    它们会把所有的水都排走, 能够渗透到地下蓄水区的水就不多了。

6. The area, called the Grand Banks, was the most abundant fishing ground in the world.
    号称大浅滩的海域是当时世界上产鱼最多的渔场。

7. They had the English Channel as a barrier against the Nazi ground forces, and they had the Royal Air Force(RAF) to battle the Nazis in the sky.
    他们有着英吉利海峡这道抵挡纳粹地面部队的天然屏障，还有皇家空军在空中与纳粹作战。

8. The air exploded in blinding lightning and colour, the rays shooting outward as in a child's drawing of the sun, and Kaz was flung to the ground so violently that her two front teeth broke off; she had sunk into unconsciousness.
    天空中爆发出眩目的闪电和色彩，喷射出的一道道光就像孩子画笔下的一道道太阳光。和子被重重地摔在了地上，磕掉了两颗门牙。她陷入了昏迷。

9. They have also noticed that snakes come out of the ground to freeze to death and that dogs bark a lot, even normally quiet dogs.
    他们还注意到，蛇会爬出地穴而冻死，狗会狂吠不已，甚至那些平常很安静的狗也会叫个不停。

10. Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate hills.
    现在，在这光秃秃的山丘上，灼热的地面仍冒着烟。