七百多万多人受到了干旱的影响。
More than seven million people have been affected by drought.
去年干旱的余波已经给他们造成压力了。
They were already under stress, thanks to the aftershock of last year's drought.
过去一年里异常干旱的气候降低了农业产量。
Exceptionally dry weather over the past year had cut agricultural production.
许多纳米比亚人都是自给自足的农民，居住在干旱的边境地区。
Many Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands.
干旱的天气使河水下降。
但在印度尼西亚，极度干旱的森林正熊熊燃烧。
对于克鲁格曼关于美国中西部干旱的言论，作者有何评论？
What is the author's comment on Krugman's claim about the current drought in America's Midwest?
首先就是放弃农田，特别是在地势高、干旱的地方，那里什么东西都长不好。
The first is the abandonment of farmland, especially in high, dry places where nothing grows terribly well.
在贫穷、干旱的地区，未经处理的废水是让农民维持生计的唯一可用灌溉资源。
In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.
在过去二十年中，法兰特和其他人发现，有很多基因参与了复苏植物对干旱的应对。
What Farrant and others have found over the past two decades is that there are many genes involved in resurrection plants' response to dryness.
粮食短缺和干旱的出现导致了一些地区的饥荒和灾难，而且工业和农业的副产品也污染了水源。
Occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
然而，粮食短缺和干旱的出现导致了一些地区的饥荒和灾难，而且工业和农业副产品也污染了水源。
Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
考古学家安德鲁·史密斯认为，在这些情况下，随着干旱的持续，沙漠中较小的原牛群会变成更小、联系更加紧密的繁殖单位。
Under these circumstances, archaeologist Andrew Smith believes, the small herds of Bos primigenius in the desert became smaller, more closely knit breeding units as the drought took hold.
在干旱的热带地区，提供灌溉水的最低成本的方法通常是建造小规模的工程。例如，在洼地收集雨水，然后将其抽调至附近的农田。
Often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions and pumping it to nearby cropland.
贫穷的农民丢下干旱的农田，来这里寻找工作。
Poor farmers are deserting their parched farm fields and coming here looking for jobs.
预计连续干旱的第五个年头将对加利福尼亚州的经济产生引人注目的影响。
A fifth year of drought is expected to have dramatic effects on the California economy.
他们给干旱的土地浇水。
它们对于在世界上一些最干旱的地区维持生命至关重要。
They are vital for sustaining life in some of the driest parts of the world.
其目的是为干旱的土地带来生命，并帮助对抗恶劣的环境。
The aim is to bring life to the dry lands and help to fight the bad environment.
随着人口密度的增长，农作物的种植已经扩展到了越来越干旱的地区。
The cultivation of crops has expanded into progressively drier regions as population densities have grown.
这些适应机制保证了植物形态多样性的不断增加，以便它们开拓干旱的陆地。
These adaptations allowed an increasing diversity of plant forms to exploit dry land.
最终，它们再一次回到陆地，进化成为陆龟，其中的一些现在生活在非常干旱的沙漠中。
Finally they returned yet again to the land as tortoises, some of which now live in the driest of deserts.
对付干旱的另一种方法是在地面上种植特定数量的植物，并且确保地下有广大的根系网络。
Another way of countering drought is to have a limited amount of mass above ground and to have extensive root networks below ground.
在过去的19年里，他通过在附近的土地上植树，把干旱的村庄变成了地下水丰富的地方。
He has changed his dry village into a place rich in ground water by planting trees on nearby land for the last 19 years.
政府正在计划投资几十亿建一个由水渠、水管和高架水道构成的系统，将水从潮湿的南方转调到干旱的北方。
The government is planning to invest billions in a system of canals, pipelines and aqueducts to divert water from the soggy south to the parched north.
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。
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.
在许多半干旱的地区中，同样存在树带界限的下限区域；在这片区域之内，由于缺乏水分，森林下沿区域的植被通常会逐渐变成干草原或沙漠。
In many semiarid areas there is also a lower timberline where the forest passes into steppe or desert at its lower edge, usually because of a lack of moisture.
一天，马良在干旱的地方画了一个水车。
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