相比之下，沙漠和冰雪覆盖的地区，反照率很高。

By contrast, deserts and areas covered by ice and snow, these places have high albedos.

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即使在保留土壤覆盖的地区，植被的减少通常也会导致土壤丧失吸收大量水分的能力。

Even in the areas that retain a soil cover, the reduction of vegetation typically results in the loss of the soil's ability to absorb substantial quantities of water.

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我们走得更远一点，直到我们到达一个完全被小块岩石覆盖的地区。

We hiked a bit further until we came to a section where the vegetation ended and the ground was covered in small pebbles of weightless lava gravel.

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At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.

于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上

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