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When you can scarcely distinguished the figures of the horses, as they take it home to the farm, and above all, most subtle, most penetrating and most moving, the smell of woods smoke, coming up in an autumn evening, the wood smoke that our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago must have caught on the air when they were coming home with the results of the day's forage, when they were still nomads, and were still roaming the forests and the plains of the continent of Europe.

然而最微妙莫测、沁人肺腑、动人心弦的还是秋日黄昏时分袅袅升起的柴烟的气味，是在几千年前，当我们祖先作为游牧民遨游在欧洲大陆的森林和原野的时候、当他们带着一天收获来的草料回家的时候，他们肯定都看到过木柴的青烟。

There is no dragon anymore—no sleepless, deep-breathing red hulk the size of the toumey field, waiting in the darkness with claws like swords and a soul as old as the stones of Osten Ard—the dragon is dead.

这儿已经再也不会有龙了——在这个隧道中，不可能再有没有睡着的、呼吸深沉的红色的巨大的怪物，它的爪子如剑一般锋利，灵魂如Osten Ard大陆的石头一样古老，在这黑暗中等待着——那只龙已经死了。

The nearby sandflat of Saadiyat, which will soon be linked to Abu Dhabi by a bridge and by causeways to the mainland, is to house no fewer than four new museums and a vast performing-arts centre, which are themselves the centrepieces of a giant,$27 billion development that includes beach resorts, a giant marina, golf courses and luxury housing for 170,000 people.

邻近的萨迪亚特岛的沙滩平地将很快与阿布扎比以桥和通往大陆的铺道相连，可以建造至少4个新博物馆和一个巨大的表演艺术中心，成为270亿美元的庞大发展工程的中心装饰岛，这一工程还包括海滩胜地，巨型码头，高尔夫球场，供17万人居住的奢华房屋。

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

不论你们走到哪里，不论你们在哪里寻觅，游遍旧大陆的所有君主国和专制国家，踏遍整个南美洲，收集所有残忍的记录直至穷尽；然后把你们的调查结果与美国每天发生的事作个比较，你们就会与我一样得出结论：在令人发指的野蛮和厚颜无耻的伪善方面，美国的确是举世无双了。

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

不论你们走到哪里，不论你们在哪里寻觅，游遍旧大陆的所有君主国和专制国家，踏遍整个南美洲，收集所有残忍的记录直至穷尽；然后把你们的调查结果与美国每天发生的事作个比较，你们就会与我一样得出结论：在令人发指的野蛮和厚顔无耻的僞善方面，美国的确是举世无双了。

We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived, for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.

我们不妨去感受一下有生命生活其间的远方水乡山谷，去感受覆盖了半个大陆的亚马逊河流域，去感受那样一种生活――在那里，一如在别的地方――那种必定总是琐碎的生活：在各条支流上，在临水的村落里，在有着独特形状的阴凉处吮吸着有白色浆果的独特的番石榴。

We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived, for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that there, like anywhere else is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.

我们不妨去感受一下有生命其间的远方水乡山谷，去感受覆盖了半个大陆的亚马逊河流域，去感受那样一种生活-------在那里，一如在别的地方----那种必定总是琐碎的生活：在各条支流上，在临水的村落里，在有着独特形状的阴凉处吸着有白色浆果的独特的番石榴。

In comparison with the observations derived from NOAA AVHRR, under the framework of NCAR CLM3, SCF schemes like CLM3 default, Douville1995, and Roesch 2001 underestimate SCF over vast areas, snow lines simulated in these three schemes are located to the south of that in the AVHRR observation, especially in autumn when snow pack begins to establish; Wu2004 scheme also underestimates SCF in the Eurasian continent in autumn; Yang1997 scheme slightly overestimates SCF, especially along the southern border of the snow covered area; Niu2007 scheme which accounts for the seasonal variation of snow density overcomes the positive bias of SCF simulated by Yang1997 scheme to some extent.

结果表明，在NCAR CLM3的物理过程框架之下，CLM3、Douville1995、Roesch2001三种方案低估了广大地区的积雪覆盖率，模拟的雪线位置偏北，尤其是在秋季积雪初期；Wu2004方案低估了秋季欧亚大陆的积雪覆盖率；Yang1997方案模拟的积雪覆盖率有些偏高，尤其是在积雪覆盖区的南部边缘；考虑积雪密度变化的Niu2007方案一定程度上克服了Yang1997方案的正偏差。

In a potentially important reversals of roles, a mainland Chinese electronics company based in Shenzhen has kickstarted a multimillion-dollar investment in Hongkong's laggard high-technology sector by signing a contract with the Hongkong Government to take a site for a planned US 2 million state-of-the-art semiconductor plant.

总部设在深圳的一家中国大陆的电子公司与香港政府签订一项合同，参与建设已规划完毕、总投资为3.12亿美元的一家高级半导体工厂。这家公司由此主动开始向香港发展迟缓的高科技领域注入数百万美元的投资。此举体现香港与内地角色的互换，具有潜在的重要性。

To study the deep faults of crust through geophysics not only provides proofs to further study of basic theories such as the crust evolution and continent formation, but also provides an important guidance to classifying tectonic units, analysing and predicting natural earthquake activities and studying different kinds of mineralisation.

利用地球物理研究地壳的深部构造，不仅为地壳的演化和大陆的形成等基础理论问题的深入研究提供证据，而且对划分大地构造单元、分析和预报天然地震的活动性以及研究各种矿产的成矿规律也具有十分重要的指导意义。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。