Overall, the landscape appears greener in the later image, indicating that greater precipitation in 2010 spurred plant growth in the normally arid region.

总之，下面一张图片的风景显得更绿了，这表明2010年在平常干旱的地区会有更大的降水量刺激植物生长。

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Precipitation is a key determinant of plant productivity in forest, whilst in arid regions there is an approximately liner increase in primary productivity with increasing precipitation.

降雨量是森林植物生产量的关键决定因子，而在干旱地区，初级生产量随降雨量的增加大致是一个线性增长。

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Any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World.

任何仙人掌科的带刺的肉质植物，主要生长于新大陆的干旱地区。

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And just outside the city is where, a mere couple decades ago, a handful of winemakers decided to ignore most local conventional and institutional wisdom, and plant this cool, arid, rugged region with Pinot Noir vines.

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