More than half of the agricultural land in the world is used to raise and feed livestock.
世界上超过一半的农业用地被用来饲养牲畜。
Typically, if rains are delayed, people may clear land to plant more rice to supplement their harvests.
通常情况下，如果雨季推迟，人们可能会腾出土地，种植更多的水稻以补充收成。
Studies have shown that farmers in developing countries who have achieved certain levels of education, wealth, and security of land tenure are more likely to adopt such technologies.
研究表明，在发展中国家，拥有一定教育水平、财富和土地所有权保障的农民更有可能采用这类技术。
They are growing larger, both in the sense that they occupy more land and that the trees in them are bigger.
它们变得越来越大，占据的土地面积更广，其中的树木也更粗壮了。
Earth's midsection bulges and the catastrophic land displacement caused a small reduction in the bulge, making the planet more round.
地球中部是稍稍膨胀的，历经灾难的陆地位移导致了隆起的轻微减少，让地球变得更圆。
Iron hoes, which made the land more productive, and iron weapons, which made the warrior more powerful, had symbolic meaning in a number of West Africa societies.
铁制锄头使土地更高产，铁制武器使战士更强大，它们在许多非洲西部的部落中都拥有象征性意义。
Munch and Salinas looked at lifespan data from laboratory and field observations for more than 90 species from land, freshwater and marine environments.
蒙克和萨利纳斯研究了来自实验室和野外的90多个物种的寿命数据，这些物种来自陆地、淡水和海洋环境。
Glaciers are slowly moving masses of ice that have accumulated on land in areas where more snowfalls during a year than melts.
冰川正在缓慢地移动大量的冰，这些冰是在每年降雪量大于融化量的地区，在陆地上累积起来的。
Newcomers had to pay far more in taxes than long-time land owners.
新来者必须比久居于此的土地所有者交纳多得多的税金。
Only UKIP, sensing its chance, has sided with those pleading for a more considered approach to using green land.
只有英国独立党觉察到了自己的机会，支持那些请求用更深思熟虑的方式使用绿地的人。
Apart from this, being able to give up labor-intensive grain production freed both the land and the workforce for more productive agricultural divisions.
除此之外，放弃劳动密集型的粮食生产，解放了土地和劳动力，形成了更高效的农业部门。
Plus, potatoes grown on the single acre of land could feed many more people than say, wheat grown on the same land.
此外，与种植在一英亩土地上的小麦相比，种植在同一块土地上的土豆能养活更多的人。
Nonland wealth was also associated with more adoption of both technologies, but the availability of uncultivated land reduced the incentive to employ the productivity-enhancing technologies.
非土地财富也与两种技术的更多采用有关，但是未耕地的可用性降低了采用提高生产率的技术的动力。
Then over many more years, the Phosphorus-rich rocks of the new land begin to erode and the cycle continues.
然后过了许多年，含磷丰富的新陆地岩石开始被侵蚀，而且循环还在继续。
When plants first made the transition ashore more than 400 million years ago, the land was barren and desolate, inhospitable to life.
4亿多年前，植物第一次向海岸上迁移时，陆地上荒凉而贫瘠，并非生命宜居之地。
By forging partnerships with people like Francis Altemose, the Conservancy has been able to protect more than 14,000 acres of environmentally important land in the area.
通过与弗朗西斯·阿尔特莫斯（FrancisAltemose）等人联合，大自然保护协会已经能够对该地区超过1.4万英亩的环境重要土地进行保护。
The increased yield and price of land justified reclaiming and draining even more land.
产量的增长和土地价格的上升证明，开垦更多的土地、并为更多的土地排水的做法是合理的。
More than one-quarter of the world's oil and almost one-fifth of the world's natural gas come from offshore, even though offshore drilling is six to seven times more expensive than drilling on land.
全球超过四分之一的石油和近五分之一的天然气来自近海，尽管近海钻探的成本是陆地钻探的六到七倍。
Plausible as this seems, it is still a theory and based on our more comprehensive knowledge of land-based animals.
这似乎是合理的，但它仍然是一种理论，这个理论是基于我们对陆生动物的更全面的认识。
People use more energy, water and land to raise animals for food than to grow fruit and vegetables.
人们使用更多的能源、水和土地来饲养动物作为食物，而不是用它们来种植水果和蔬菜。
Pinocchio reaches the Land of the Busy Bees and finds the Fairy once more.
皮诺乔到达了“勤劳的蜜蜂庄”，再次找到了仙女。
他说，他需要更多的土地。
What they have to do in order to feed the population, you have to have more land.
要怎么做才能养活这么多的人呢，你得有更多的土地？
If it devoted more land in other cities to development, how would this affect apartment prices in those areas?
其它城市的土地开发多了，何愁不会影响到这些地区楼市的价格？
He took timid steps to turn over more land to private farming, and gave more leeway to some small businesses, such as private taxi drivers.
他小心谨慎地将更多的土地归为私人耕作，同时也赋予小型商业活动更大的自由：比如私人出租司机等。
Now it aims to speed up the methane production cycle from years to a matter of days at the same time as cutting the need for more land to bury garbage.
现在他们的目标是加快甲烷产品的生产周期，从几年变成几天，同时减少对掩埋更多垃圾的土地需求。
Some Banks are requiring lenders to personally guarantee corporate loans and put up considerably more land and factory equipment as collateral.
一些银行要求贷款人以个人名义担保公司贷款，而且还要拿出更多的土地和工厂设备当做抵押。
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