1. It is also a land of vast tropical rain forests.
    还有大片热带雨林。

2. I felt so pleased with the idea that I never once considered how I should get it off the land after it was completed.
    这个念头使我心花怒放，压根儿没去想一旦把船造好了，该怎样让它下水。

3. In ancient Egypt, for example, the season when the Nile flooded the land was followed by the season when crops were planted and cared for.
    例如在古埃及，尼罗河水泛滥大地的季节后紧跟着便是种植和照看庄稼的季节，

4. In Baltimore, a long strip of land (which was used for dumping garbage) is becoming a series of biking and walking trails.
    在巴尔的摩，曾被用来倾倒垃圾的一长条土地正变成一条条自行车道和步行道。

5. In Portland, Maine, the land along the old train tracks near the coast has become a green belt of trails between areas characterized by housing developments and those characterized by downtown businesses.
    在缅因州的波特兰市，那离海岸不远处的旧铁路延线的土地已经变成了一长条绿化带，正好处于以住宅开发为特征的区域和市中心以商业为特征的区域之间。

6. It has sponsored the growing of cash crops such as cassava, maize, cotton, and the planting of trees to regenerate waste land.
    为恢复荒地的地力，它资助人们种植诸如木薯、玉米、棉花之类的经济作物和植树造林。

7. I am myself a stranger in a strange land — Italy.
    我本人也是个身在异乡--意大利--的一个异客。

8. From an attic window we could get a sweeping view of the river where their land joined ours,
    从顶楼窗口看去，我们农场与他们农场接壤处的那段河流一览无余。

9. From June to September the Nile rises and submerges the whole valley; then in the beginning of October it begins to fall, leaving the land saturated with water and covered with a layer of rich, black soil.
    从六月到九月，河水暴涨，淹没了整个流域；到十月初，河水开始减退，剩下饱含大量水分的土地，还覆盖着一层肥沃的黑土。

10. For example, of what use is a wet land?
    例如, 湿地的作用是什么？