1. Many shopping centers stand on dry land today, land that was once wet and full of marshes.
    在如今的干地、但曾经是潮湿的、布满了沼泽的土地上矗立着许多购物中心。

2. Columbus had an indomitable belief that he would reach land by sailing west.
    哥伦布有个不屈不挠的信念，他认为向西航行就可到达陆地。

3. Central Africa, the most tropical portion of this tropical continent, is a land of heavy rainfall and high plateaus.
    中部非洲是这块热带大陆上最热的地区，雨量充沛，地势很高，

4. Rivers, land, and forests are so contaminated that many are now biologically dead.
    河流、土地及森林的污染是如此严重，以至现在其中的许多在生物学上来讲已经死亡。

5. Our knowledge of the oceans a hundred years ago was confined to the two-dimensional shape of the sea surface and the hazards of navigation presented by the irregularities in depth of the shallow water close to the land.
    100年前，我们只知道海洋是二维平面形的，以及靠近陆地浅水区的深浅不一能给航行带来危险。

6. Our leaders saw parallels to the independence movement founded by people like Nehru and Gandhi who, after absorbing Western political thought at institutions like Eton and Oxford, returned home to serve their native land.
    我们的领导人看到了与诸如尼赫鲁和甘地这样的人所发起的独立运动类似的情况：他们在伊顿和牛津这样的学府里吸收了西方的政治思想后，就回来报效自己的祖国。

7. On a visit to Santa Fe in 1943, she asked why she couldn't see the picture he had just taken. During the next hour, as Land walked around Santa Fe, all he had learned about chemistry came together:
    1943年在去圣菲游览时，女儿问他，为什么她无法看到他刚刚拍摄的照片。在接下来的一小时里，兰德一边在圣菲游览，一边脑子里却汇聚着他学过的所有关于化学的知识。

8. Other countries — France, Italy, Spain, even Japan and Korea — have provided more applause (and profit) where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his birth.
    就卓别林而言，其他国家，如法国、意大利、西班牙，甚至日本和朝鲜，比他的出生地给予了他更多的掌声（和更多的收益）。

9. I will land you safe in Liverpool," he said, "If you will be men."
    我会把你们平安地送到利物浦上岸，”他说道，“要是你们是男子汉的话。”

10. It is almost always due to some very special circumstances that traces of land animals survive,
    几乎总是由于某些特殊的条件，陆地动物的遗体才被存下来，