If sufficient rain falls the next year to form another lake, the eggs hatch, and once again the shrimps pass rapidly through their cycle of growth, adulthood, egg-laying, and death.

如果第二年有足够的雨水形成另一个湖泊，卵就会孵化，小虾会再次快速地经历生长、成年、产卵和死亡的循环。

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By the 1990's, less than half of the earth's original rain forests remained, and they continued to disappear at an alarming rate every year.

到20世纪90年代，地球上原有的雨林只剩下不到一半，而且它们每年都继续以惊人的速度消失。

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With half an inch of rain per year, the beetle can only survive by consuming the dew it collects on the hydrophilic skin of its back in the early mornings.

在每年只有半英尺降雨量的环境下，这种甲虫只能通过它背部亲水性皮肤在早晨收集的水露存活下来。

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The area is really a desert, receiving only about thirty-five centimeters of rain a year.

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The first rain of the year, which fell last week, turned the Kukcha river, a snow-fed torrent that rushes through the town, from its normal milky jade to a muddy brown.

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The council blamed "exceptional levels of rain last year, followed by snow and ice", which caused damage "across the country".

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