There were, however, fluctuations in the climatic conditions, with the consequences that wet conditions were followed by dry ones, so that the availability of plants and animals oscillated brusquely.

但是，气候条件存在波动，造成干湿天气交替，以致可以获取的动植物数量忽高忽低。

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Dr Buckley's data, however, suggest another possibility-that Angkor's canals and reservoirs ran dry and that the invasions were therefore a consequence of decline, rather than its cause.

但是，Buckley博士的数据，提出了另一种可能性——即吴哥的运河干涸和水库缺水，因此敌人入侵是衰退的结果，而不是其原因。

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However,signs of the shortage are much less visible in cities like Jerusalem, where taps have yet to go dry.

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However, this seemingly dry and arid region in southern Israel is now home to a burgeoning wine route, thanks to a group of pioneering 21st-century farmers and their use of computerized drip irrigation.

BBC: The Negev desert wine route

The body, however, remains ensconced in dry ice (replenished each month by a hired local now known as Bo the Iceman) in a shed donated by local businesses, while the family financially maintains the body and its upkeep from afar.

BBC: Party with a frozen dead guy in the Rockies

Even this tough plant requires some help under the unusually dry weather this year, however.

CNN: Fighting the desert one tree at a time