The arid region was 11, 000 tons short of its expected cereal productionlast year.(去年,干旱区的谷物产量比预计产量少了11000吨。)
If you move somewhere dry and arid, find a moisturizer that's more hydrating.(如果你到了气候比较干燥的地方,就需要保湿效果好的保湿剂。)
New Mexico is a land of high, arid desert and it has a beauty of its own.(新墨西哥是一个地势高贫瘠的沙漠,具有其独特的美。)
Twenty million years ago, Idaho was not the arid place it is now. Rather, it was warm and damp, populated by dense primordial forest.(2000万年前,爱达荷州不像现在这样干旱。确切地说,它那时温暖潮湿,生长着茂密的原始森林。)
The areas that are now desert were, like all arid regions, very susceptible to cycles of higher and lower levels of rainfall, resulting in major, sudden changes in distributions of plants and animals.(那片现在是沙漠的地区和所有干旱地区一样,对降雨量相对更大或更小的周期极为敏感,因此那里的动植物分布发生了巨大且迅速的变化。)
In arid and semiarid regions, on the other hand, the small number of lakes and the great distances between them reduce the possibilities for correlation.(另一方面,在干旱和半干旱地区,湖泊数量少,湖泊之间距离远,减少了相互关联的可能性。)
Insects, birds arid fish tend to be the creatures that humans feel furthest from.(昆虫、鸟类和鱼类往往是人类感到最没有亲切感的生物。)
Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds from southern Africa.(由于受南部非洲干燥信风冲击,阿森松只是一个干旱的小岛。)
Vast areas are arid or semi-desert, and virtually uninhabited.(大片地区都是干旱或者半沙漠,人迹罕至,渺无人烟。)
The southern frontier of the desert was far to the north of where it is now, while semiarid grassland and shallow freshwater lakes covered much of what are now arid plains.(过往沙漠的南部边界比现在的边界更靠北,而半干旱的草原和较浅的淡水湖泊覆盖了现在干旱平原的大部分地区。)