The dry mountain ranges of the western United States contain rocks dating back 440 to 510 million years, to the Ordovician period, and teeming with evidence of tropical marine life.

美国西部干燥的山脉包含了距今4.4亿至5.1亿年前的奥陶纪岩石，其中充斥着热带海洋生物生存的迹象。

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Water from a rain puddle or a mountain stream would quench his thirst and cool his hot dry throat.

雨水坑或山涧里的水可以解渴，清凉他干热的喉咙。

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The mountain spring has run dry.

这眼山泉干涸了。

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The skin is used as compost, while the beans are raked out to dry in the mountain air.

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Mountain chaparral and shrubs are dry because Los Angeles has received only half of its normal rainfall the past two years, Myers said.

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About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.

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