Northern Colorado's Big Thompson River flows from the Rocky Mountains (west) to the Great Plains (east) through a steep-walled, boulder-strewn canyon.

北科罗拉多州的大汤普森河，从落基山脉(西)经遍布卵石的陡峭峡谷流向大平原(东)。

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A belt running from Texas north-west across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains has been doing particularly well, thanks to soaring exports and high commodity prices.

从得克萨斯向西北方向穿越大平原以及洛基山脉这一狭长地带的经济形势尤其理想，这要感谢飞涨的出口额以及高昂的物价。

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The terrain extends east to west from the Caspian Sea to the Altay Mountains and north to south from the plains of Western Siberia to the oasis and desert of Central Asia.

它的领土东起里海，西至阿勒泰山，北邻西西伯利亚平原，南到中亚的绿洲和沙漠。

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In Eighteen-Fifty, estimates say twenty-million buffalo lived on the open plains areas of the west.

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Settlers who pushed west across sweeping plains.

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Beyond the capital, rugged Alpine mountains rise to the north and west, the Pannonian plains stretch off towards Hungary in the east and the the Adriatic Sea lies to the south.

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