In a nature reserve near the botanical garden, he grabs leaves from a seedling; dry as parchment, they disintegrate.

在热带植物园附近的一个自然保护区里，他从一株幼苗上摘下了一片叶子；叶子就像羊皮纸一样干燥，一摁就破碎了。

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Shifting rain patterns flood some regions and dry up others as nature demonstrates a grave physics lesson: Hot air holds more water molecules than cold.

降雨模式的改变导致一些地方洪水泛滥，一些地方又闹起了旱灾，所有这些都告诉我们这样一个物理规律：热空气中水分子数量比冷空气中水分子数量要多。

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Once you learn this basic fact of nature, the dry and brittle phase of autumn, when things are dying - or periods of loss in your life as a whole - become easier to bear.

一旦你懂得了当事情正在逐步消亡时，秋天干燥和脆弱阶段的这个大自然的基本事实，——或者当你的生命作为一个整体已经进入了即将丧失的时期——你就可能会变得更容易忍受一些。

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The fire service said the workers tried and failed to extinguish the blaze and it spread behind the external cladding "extremely quickly due to the dry nature of the material".

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The path leads past a dry-stone wall, marking the boundary of a nature reservation.

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His first job, in a general trading firm in Warsaw, involved him writing letters in Yiddish about the price of dry goods, but alongside this he knew a charmed existence close to nature in the wilds of north-eastern Poland, hunting or just tracking a legendary variety of game.

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