干旱

The River Wey ran dry during the recent drought.

近来天气干旱，韦河干涸了。

The drought in China's wheat belt could drive costs even higher.

中国小麦生长地带的干旱可能使面条的成本更高。

Wheat belt, to water rationing and crop reductions in California, to spiking prices for food, fuel, and water, to spreading pestilence, to some coastal areas becoming uninhabitable due to storms, to widespread wars over resources and land and more.

像是美国严重的干旱，加利福尼亚小麦种植带水资源的定量配给和玉米产出的减少，食物，燃料和水的价格猛增，瘟疫横行，一些沿海地区变得不适宜人类居住。

The northwest of China lies a wheat belt, which covers several square km. It shares the same border at its northwest with the dry Loess Plateau and gobi, which is a hostile place for human to live.

在中国西北部，有一片数百平方公里的产麦区，产麦区边缘的西北部是干旱的黄土高原和戈壁沙漠。

Craig Willson, proprietor of Bremerton winery at Langhorne Creek, and a director of its pipeline company, reckons drought and loss of the lake's water have cut the region's productivity by almost 40% over the past two years.

克雷格威尔逊，兰霍恩溪区布雷默顿酒厂的所有者兼当地管道公司的经理，估算说，在过去的两年里，干旱和湖水流失对本地区生产力造成的损失几乎达到40%。

Perhaps exaggerating, the UN Development Programme has said Lake Balkhash could turn into a salty mess, like the Aral Sea; and there are fears that wind-borne salt from its dried-up basin might speed the melting of glaciers on which China and Kazakhstan depend.

或许有些夸张，联合国开发计划署认为巴尔喀什湖将会像咸海那样变成一个肮脏的盐碱湖。还有些人担心，来自干旱盆地的风化盐碱会加速冰河的融化程度。对中哈两国而言，这些冰河都是极为重要的。

Xiashu loess is a kind of geographical special earth, which was piled up by wind-force in dry weather.

下蜀黄土是我国区域性分布的一种特殊性土，是在干旱气候条件下由风力堆积而成。

In dry area or sandy dryland, for the reason of scarce rainfall, windiness and lack of labor power and material resources, the low survivor ratio of afforestation were common.

在干旱或荒漠地区造林，降雨稀少，风多且风大，加之人力、物力的贫乏等原因，导致造林成活率低。

His armies moved from the windswept steppes of central Asia to overthrow the Song Dynasty in China.

他的军队从中亚大风掠过的干旱草原冲向中国的宋朝。

His armies moved om the windswept steppes of central Asia to overthrow the Song Dynasty in China.

他的军队从中亚大风掠过的干旱草原冲向中国的宋朝。

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。