Then the cycle continues, less rain, drier soil, less vegetation, fewer clouds, less rain etc.
然后这个循环继续下去，雨水减少，土壤变干，植被减少，云层减少，雨水再减少等等。
Some people in the West say they cannot remember a time with less rain in half a century.
西部一些居民说他们半个世纪内没有遇到更少雨的时期了。
Some people in the West say they can not remember a time with less rain in half a century.
西部的一些人说他们记不起在半个世纪中哪个时代雨量小。
There is much less rain than before and the land has been overused in the past by big cattle ranches.
雨水比以往少了很多，而且土地过去一直被大型牛牧场过度使用。
Warm, sinking air canhamper cloud formation, which results in less rain and lower overall humidity.
下沉的湿热气流会阻碍云的形成，如此一来，该地区会少雨且空气湿度低。
The land seemed to share the king's grief. Each year after the queen's death, a little less rain fell on the kingdom.
这片土地似乎也感染了国王的悲伤，自从王后去世之后，整个王国的降雨一年比一年少。
Some places are getting 80 percent less rain than they normally do, according to the Flood Control and Drought Relief Office.
部分地区的降水比以往少了80%，据国家防汛抗旱总指挥部说。
But in recent decades, as less and less rain fell during the wet seasons, Tuareg families struggled to sustain sizable herds.
然而最近数十年，即便在雨季，雨水也越来越少了。图阿·格雷人尽力维持畜群的规模。
Subtropics monsoon climate characteristics: high temperature summer more rain, winters are mild less rain, rain hot during the same period.
亚热带季风气候特征：夏季高温多雨，冬季温和少雨，雨热同期。
La ninas change global weather patterns; they are associated with less moisture in the air, resulting in less rain along the coasts of North and South America.
拉尼娜改变了全球的气象格局：由于它的出现，大气中水汽的减少，从而导致南北美洲海岸的少雨。
Rain-soaked soil contains less oxygen than does drier soil.
雨水浸透的土壤比干燥的土壤含氧量少。
Less colorful birds and animals that inhabit the rain forest tend to rely on other forms of signaling other than the visual, particularly over long distances.
生活在雨林中、且色彩并不那么亮丽的鸟类和动物往往依赖于视觉信号以外的其他信号形式，尤其是在传递长途信号的情况下。
Less vegetation means the soil can't hold water as well; the soil loses its ability to retain water when it does rain.
更少的植被意味着土壤也无法保持水分；下雨时土壤就失去了保持水分的能力。
At the current rate of decline, many of the rain forest animals could become extinct in less than 10 years.
按照目前的下降速度，许多雨林动物不到十年就会绝种。
It rains a lot less than Seattle and the rain is spread out over more days than those cities.
这里的降雨量比西雅图少得多，而且降雨持续时间也比那些城市更长。
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。
Less colorful birds and animals that inhabit the rain forest tend to rely on forms of signaling other than the visual, particularly over long distances.
热带雨林中居住的不那么鲜艳的鸟类和动物，往往依赖于视觉以外的信号形式，尤其是长距离的信号。
Ripe melons harvested after a prolonged period of heavy rain should be less sweet than other ripe melons.
长期大雨后收获的熟瓜，其甜度应低于其他熟瓜。
Surviving on the scant rain that falls on the high desert, the surrounding natural scrubland USES far less water. The scrubland, shown in the upper left corner of the image, is tan and pale blue.
为了在降水稀少的高地沙漠存活下来，周围自然形态的灌木丛则消耗很少的水分，可以看到这些分布在图片左上部的灌木丛是黄褐色和灰蓝色的。
Each day - rain, hail or shine - they ran anywhere up to 88 miles, keeping an average pace of 10 minutes per mile or less.
不论阴晴雨雪，不论身处何地，队员们每天都跑过长达88英里的路程，平均速度至少为每英里10分钟。
A new study says that some drops of rain are falling faster than they should be. Which ultimately means that it may be raining less than we think.
一项新的研究声称，一些雨滴下落的速度比正常的要快，这就使得实际的降雨量比我们预想的要少。
Such clouds would persist for an unusually long time because small water droplets are less likely than big ones to turn into rain.
这种云层会持续较长时间因为微小水滴与大水滴相比，更不容易形成降雨。
On average, people are extracting for their own USES less than a tenth of what falls as rain and snow each year.
平均而言，人们对某些水资源利用，比如每年的雨雪，利用率还不到十分之一。
But the relationship between man and nature is much less clear-cut in this picture, called Rain, Steam and Speed — the Great Western Railway, completed by Turner sometime around 1843, 1844.
但人类与大自然的关系在《雨、蒸汽和速度——西部大铁路》中就没有那么清晰的表现出来。此画由透纳在1843年和1844年左右完成。
The damage they do is affected far less by their strength than by where they hit land, and by how able a society is to withstand the winds and rain.
呃~确实有点难翻译。 我尝试意译一下： （在影响受灾程度的因素中，）风暴袭击的地点、以及社会对暴风骤雨的承受能力，远比风暴的强度对受灾程度影响大。
Rising temperatures combined with less predictable rain patterns are likely to reduce water supplies and augment desertification.
随着气温的升高，在加上少雨的降雨模式导致水资源的供应更加匮乏和城市沙漠化。
Rising temperatures combined with less predictable rain patterns are likely to reduce water supplies and augment desertification.
随着气温的升高，在加上少雨的降雨模式导致水资源的供应更加匮乏和城市沙漠化。
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