这次成功的部分原因其实是与亚马逊州没多少关系的。
This success was partly for reasons that have little to do with Amazonas.
玛瑙斯是亚马逊州的首府，这个城市就像是一片原始森林，那些公路和建筑只是夹杂在丛林中的点缀。
Manaus is the capital of the Amazonas. This city is like primitive forests. Roads and buildings are like ornaments in the forests.
2009年3月3日，在巴西亚马逊州的玛瑙斯，渔民ElsondeOliveira正在将一头死去的鳄鱼拖到在里斯湖的船上。
Brazilian fisherman Elson DE Oliveira, hauls a dead alligator into his boat at Reis Lake, in Manaus, Amazonas state, on Dec. 3, 2009.
自2003年至2009年间，亚马逊州的森林砍伐率下降了70%，它拯救了巴西自身。亚马逊州是巴西森林覆盖率最高的地区，甚至拥有比其他任何国家都多的热带雨林。
Between 2003 and 2009, the deforestation rate of Amazonas, Brazil's most forested state, which has more rainforest than any country save Brazil itself, dropped by 70%.
亚马逊凭借其仓库网络，在征收消费税的州收取消费税，但是其网站上的第三方卖家则不需要缴税。
Amazon.com, with its network of warehouses, also collects sales tax in every state that charges it, though third-party sellers who use the site don't have to.
珍妮弗·巴尔什这个月即将深入巴西马托格罗索州的亚马逊雨林，她打算在那来一场人工火灾，然后看看会发生什么。
THIS month Jennifer Balch will head into the Amazon rainforest of Mato Grosso state, in Brazil.She intends to set fire to it and find out what happens.
马兰豪州南部是棕榈树最为集中的地方，分布在巴西的半干旱地区东北部和亚马逊雨林交界的地区。
The trees are most heavily concentrated in the south of Maranhão, in the transition zone between Brazil's semiarid northeast and the Amazon rainforest.
本月，詹妮弗•鲍尔奇将走进巴西马托格罗索州的亚马逊雨林区。
THIS month Jennifer Balch will head into the Amazon rainforest of Mato Grosso state, in Brazil.
受灾最严重地区是位于亚马逊河口南部和大西洋沿岸的马拉尼昂州。
Worst-hit is the state of Maranhao along the Atlantic coast and south of the mouth of the Amazon river.
特伦·波尔说环保局的情报部门还查出了一起来自亚马逊其他州的砍伐者和牧场主的非法活动。
Trennepohl said Ibama's intelligence sector had also detected a movement of loggers and ranchers from other Amazon states.
在再过去的三年中，有21个州一边考虑支出预算，一边想着怎么怎样迫使零售商 （特别是亚马逊）缴纳销售税。 于是律师们一直在折磨着“关系”这个术语。
Lawyers have been torturing the term as 21 states over the past three years of budget pain considered whether and how to force retailers (most notably Amazon) to collect sales tax.
除了在亚马逊平原搜寻橡胶树种和在南美建立试验性的种植园外，该项目还有一些新奇的生产橡胶的计划，包括在美国41个州种植蒲公英属植物。
In addition to searching the Amazon and establishing experimental plantations in Latin America, the program came up with some novel plans to produce rubber including planting Dandelions in 41 states.
亚马逊还在美国多个州发起了反对征收营业税的行动，这恐怕是该公司最受争议的行为。
The vicious, multi-state battle over state sales tax has created perhaps the most controversy around Amazon.
如果免征消费税，在加利福尼亚州，像亚马逊这类的网络零售商与拥有实体店的其它小型企业例如书店相比，确实存在价格优势。
By not collecting sales tax, Internet retailers such as Amazon had a real price advantage over California's small businesses, such as booksellers, which have a physical presence in the state.
出生于遥远的亚马逊流域的阿克里州一个贫困的橡胶园里，席尔瓦16岁时父母双亡，直到十几岁才开始识字。
Born in an impoverished community of rubber tappers in the remote Amazon state of Acre, Silva was orphaned at 16 and was illiterate until her early teens.
失去亚马逊雨林将导致整个美洲的降雨量减少，远在德克萨斯州的农民也会深受其害。
Losing the Amazon rainforest could reduce rainfall across the Americas, with potentially dire consequences for farmers as far away as Texas.
知道了亚马逊免税地位明显不公，又知道城市、州和联邦财政收入无形中缩水了，你是否会觉得自己在亚马逊里买东西有点不道德。
Given the obvious unfairness of Amazon's tax status-and given the clear loss in revenue for cities, counties, and states-you might wonder whether it is in some sense unethical to shop at Amazon.
虽然亚马逊为了这部法律还在和纽约州打官司，但它现在在该州也只好依法纳税。
While Amazon is still fighting the New York tax law, the company has been collecting taxes in the state as per the legislation.
目前为止，亚马孙州是巴西亚马逊地区9个州中森林保存得最完好的地区，原始森林的覆盖率高达97%。
Amazonas remains by far the best-preserved of Brazil's nine Amazon states, with about 97% of its original forest cover intact.
作为回应，亚马逊直接状告纽约州违宪——联营企业，亚马逊认为，在该州构成成份很小。
In response, Amazon sued New York over the law's constitutionality-marketing affiliates, Amazon argued, did not constitute a significant presence in the state.
已经有7个州把诸如此类的事称为是有关联的，并且要求亚马逊支付款项，其中最近的是加利福尼亚州。
Seven states have called such things nexuses and asked Amazon for money; California is the latest.
从车库走出的大公司还包括亚马逊、谷歌、美泰、惠普和微软——创业之初，比尔•盖茨和保罗•艾伦也曾窝在新墨西哥州一家非常寒掺的汽车旅馆开发软件。
Other garage-founded titans include Amazon, Google, Mattel, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft— which Bill Gates and Paul Allen also developed at the sketchy Sundowner Motel in New Mexico.
一只南美洲亚马逊河流域热带雨林中的蝴蝶，偶尔扇动几下翅膀，可以在两周以后引起美国德克萨斯州的一场龙卷风。
A butterfly casually flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest in South America can cause a tornado in Texas in the United States two weeks later.
一只南美洲亚马逊河流域热带雨林中的蝴蝶，偶尔扇动几下翅膀，可以在两周以后引起美国德克萨斯州的一场龙卷风。
A butterfly casually flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest in South America can cause a tornado in Texas in the United States two weeks later.
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