希德里说:“我们在芝加哥开了一个班,由土木工程师教授他们建造桥梁的知识,在爱达荷州,有个班级请求科学家帮助他们建立一个可在教室内运转的河流三角洲”。
We have a class in Chicago asking for civil engineers to teach them how to build a bridge. In Idaho, a class is asking for a scientist to help them build a working river delta inside their classroom.
作为河州首府,哈科特港位于尼日利亚三角洲的中心。此地的河流孕润着尼日利亚丰富的油气储备——这也是非洲最大的油气储备。
Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state, is the urban hub of the Niger Delta, where the creeks contain the bulk of Nigeria's vast oil and gas reserves, the biggest in Africa.
在其他地区的农民,比如北达科塔州的红河谷和明尼苏达洲,说他们明年可能种传统甜菜收获。
Farmers in other areas, such as the Red River valley of North Dakota and Minnesota, say they probably could harvest a conventional crop next year.
虽然浮油部分被云笼罩,但在两个区域依稀可辨:一条蛇形油膜带靠近密西西比三角洲、一大片浮油环绕着密西西比以南的阿拉巴马州边缘。
Although partially obscured by clouds, oil is discernible in two areas, a serpentine slick near the Mississippi Delta, and a large round slick south of the Mississippi-Alabama border.
浮油看起来已到达位于阿拉巴马州的海滩和堰洲岛,和佛罗里达西部的狭长地带。
Oil appears to have reached beaches and barrier islands in Alabama and the western Panhandle of Florida.
而在富油三角洲地区的五六个州,问题更加尖锐。
The problem is most acute in the five or six oil-rich Delta states.
其中,俄勒冈州和南卡罗来纳州的增幅超过20%,加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、佛罗里达洲、马里兰州、俄亥俄州和华盛顿洲的增幅都超过10%。
The welfare caseload rose by more than 20% in Oregon and South Carolina, and by more than 10% in California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Ohio and Washington state.
南加利福尼亚州的用水大部分来自萨克拉门托-圣华金三角洲,一个多世纪以前,这里建起堤坝,将土地分割成农田。
23southern California draws much of its water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which was diked and divided into farms more than a century ago.
而那分布得错落有致的湿地、海湾、堰洲岛曾使路易斯安纳州南部的风光绚丽多姿,现在这种格调已不复存在。
The muddy lattice of marshes, bayous, and barrier islands that makes up southern Louisiana is different.
在这幅由NASA的卫星“Aqua”上的中分辨率成像光谱仪所拍摄的照片中,浮油已经接近到了离路易斯安娜州的堰洲岛和沙滩20英里的地方。
The oil has come within 20 miles of Louisiana’s barrier islands and beaches in this image taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite.
位于密苏里州Tutwiler的三角洲山核桃果园里,12盎司一袋的山核桃要11美元一袋,而去年才9.5美元一袋。
A 12-ounce bag of plain pecan halves is going for $11 at her Delta Pecan Orchard in Tutwiler, Miss. Last year, the same-size bag went for $9.50.
新泽西州布拉德利海滩(Bradley Beach)的玛丽安娜·佩雷斯图尼克(MaryannePreztunik),在她自己50岁的生日时,她享用了送给她的诞辰礼物- 让她从乌斯怀亚、阿根廷、到南极洲作一次往返性的远征旅行。
Maryanne Preztunik of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, took this photo while enjoying her 50th birthday present to herself--a roundtrip sailing expedition from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Antarctica.
新泽西洲的昵称是“花园州”,因为新泽西的蔬菜农场曾为这些大城市提供蔬菜。
It got its nickname, the Garden State, because New Jersey truck farms once provided vegetables to those big cities.
如果你有机会在新墨西哥洲的桑格累得克利·斯托山脉欣赏红色的夕阳,你就会知道为什么这个西南部的州被称为“迷人之地”了。
If you get a chance to see a red sunset over the Sangre DE Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, you will know why that southwestern state is called the Land of Enchantment.
在德克萨斯州的狭长地区,当两周前的暴风雪迫使I - 40洲际高速公路关闭时,没有人会想到这一周沙尘暴引起的时速50英里(瞬时风速达70英里)的风会再一次迫使该区域被关闭。
In the Texas Panhandle, when the snow storm two weeks ago closed sections of I-40, no one would think that 50 mile per hour winds (gusts up to 70) would close sections again this week for dust storms.
图18。西部边界(重色线)的索马里(苏)由非洲板块,包围(自动对焦),南极洲(安),印度(中)和沙特阿拉伯(阿肯色州)。
Figure 18. Western boundaries (heavy colored lines) of the Somalia (SO) plate, surrounded by Africa (AF), Antarctica (an), India (in), and Arabia (ar).
喜洲村位于云南省西北部的大理白族自治州,苍山与洱海之间狭长的平坝地带北端。
In the north of the long and narrow flatland between Canshan Mountains and Erhai, Xizhou Village lies in Daili Autonomous Prefecture of Bai Nationality, northwest of Yunan Province.
路易斯安纳州拥有一大批优秀的海岸科学家,他们已经对三角洲地区进行了数十年的研究。
The state of Louisiana has a wealth of fine coastal scientists who have been working on the coastal restoration of the Louisiana delta region for decades.
专家认为,正威胁着墨西哥湾以及路易斯安纳州海岸线上的诸多堰洲岛的大面积不仅威胁公众健康,而且可能会给自然环境造成巨大危害。
The massive oil slick menacing the Gulf of Mexico and now some barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana could prove devastating to the environment while posing risks to public health, experts say.
他的阿瓦达,科罗拉多州的财产恢复公司的三角洲灾难服务部,无论何时一场火灾或者洪灾或者类似摧毁商业楼或者住宅楼的灾难发生时,他们都会接到一通电话。
At Delta disaster Services, his Arvada, Colorado-based property restoration company, they get a call whenever a fire, flood, or similar disaster wrecks a commercial or residential building.
密西西比三角洲区中死亡率最高的是沿着密西西比河的阿肯色州、田纳西州、路易斯安那州和密西西比。
The highest mortality rates in the Mississippi Delta were found in counties clustered along the creek in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi.
密西西比三角洲区中死亡率最高的是沿着密西西比河的阿肯色州、田纳西州、路易斯安那州和密西西比。
The highest mortality rates in the Mississippi Delta were found in counties clustered along the creek in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi.
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