Making meat out of plants uses less water and land than raising animals for meat.
从植物中提取肉类所消耗的水和土地比饲养肉食动物要少。
Nutrient-rich water is brought to the wetlands during each high tide, making a high rate of food production possible.
在每次涨潮时，富含营养的水被带到湿地，使高粮食产量有可能实现。
Sunlight reflecting off the water gives these caves their blue hue, making them popular for boating and diving.
海水反射的阳光使这些洞穴呈现出蓝色，使它们成为划船和潜水的好去处。
Trees need more water as temperatures rise, but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture, making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland.
随着温度的升高，树木需要更多的水，但是长期的干旱剥夺了它们的水分，使得整片森林很容易被砍伐，变成了农田。
The process of making wine is to crush the root of the tree, soak it in water, and use a cloth to twist the juice.
制作酒的程序是把这个树根碾碎，泡在水里，用布来拧出汁液。
It pumps water out of tiny bag-like bladders, making a vacuum inside.
它把水从像袋子一样的囊状物里抽出来，使囊状物的内部形成真空状态。
There are laws against littering and against making the air and water dirty.
法律禁止乱扔垃圾，禁止污染空气和水。
The ships had nine decks, and White Star Line decided to focus on making them the most luxurious ships on the water.
这些船有九层甲板，白星航运公司决定致力于将其打造成水上最豪华的船只。
The clear rock magnified the letters, making them appear larger, it's like what happens when a drop of water falls on something, whatever's below the drop of water appears larger, right?
透明的岩石放大了字母，使它们看起来更大，就像一滴水落在什么东西上，在这滴水下面的东西看起来更大，对吧？
Instead of making a clean break, water evaporating from treetops tugs on the remaining water molecules, with that tug extending from molecule to molecule all the way down to the roots.
从树梢蒸发的水并没有彻底地分解，而是拉住了剩下的水分子，这种拉拽作用从一个分子延伸到另一个分子，一直拉到根部。
Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets.
近年来，通过网络宣传为一个项目筹集资金的众筹形式已经在各个领域蓬勃发展，包括制作电影、生产节水设备等等。
The sounds bounce off them and the lower jaw captures the returning sounds, making it possible for the dolphin to sense what's in the surrounding water and decide where to swim.
声音从它们那里折射，下颌捕捉到返回的声音，使海豚能够感受到周围水域中有什么，并决定游向哪里。
Water is very important for making tea.
水对于沏茶是非常重要的。
Centuries before scientists created fog-catching nets, nature was making fog into water on its own.
早在科学家们发明雾收集网的几个世纪前，大自然自己就把雾转化成水了。
The area of wetlands in China has become larger over the past five years, growing by 202,600 hectares and making a great contribution to water quality and environmental protection.
5年来，中国湿地面积增加了20.26万公顷，为水质和环境保护做出了重要贡献。
The descending sun was making brilliance upon the water.
落日将余辉洒在水面上。
For instance, substitute vegetable stock for plain water when making rice.
比如在做米饭时用蔬菜高汤代替平时的水。
In many areas of the country, growing populations and limited nearby water supplies are making water a scarce (and expensive) commodity.
在这个国家的不同地区，人口增多与水供应不足使水变成稀缺昂贵的商品。
The ions then either settle back into the walls of the pipes, making the pipes themselves radioactive, or continue to circulate, making the water radioactive.
随即这些离子要么重新回到钢管管壁中，致使钢管本身产生放射性，要么继续在水中循环，导致水也带有放射性。
The teams proposed softer, more parklike edges that would serve to dissipate storm surges while making the water more accessible to people.
研讨小组倡导采用一些更柔软，更公园式的房屋边缘以在驱赶暴风雨侵袭的同时也引入水使其更为人所用。
Some of this carbon dioxide is absorbed by ocean water, altering the proportion of hydrogen and carbonate ions, and making the water more acidic.
一些二氧化碳会被海水吸收，改变海水中氢和碳酸盐离子的比例，使得海水酸化。
So this new planet we've found would be warmed up — like a face to a campfire — to lukewarm temperatures, making the water, if any, liquid.
因此，就像面对一盆篝火一样，这颗新发现的恒星温度可以被加热到升高到舒适的温度，如果存在水的话，那么就是液态水。
In 2006, Americans drank more bottled water than milk, making bottled water the second most consumed beverage (after soft drinks, of course).
在2006年，美国人喝瓶装水比喝牛奶喝得更多，这让瓶装水成为第二大消费饮品(仅次于软饮品)。
And if you've managed to build a fire, you can now boil the water, making it safer to drink.
如果你能生起一堆火，就能把水烧开，然后就可以放心饮用了。
From crate to making water takes about two hours.
从打开板条箱到取用水只需要大约2个小时。
Maybe you should drink a bottle of water before making a decision about your stock portfolio.
也许在你对股票投资组合做出决定前，你应该喝一瓶水。
When we cook those potato slices while making crisps, the water normally escapes through chimneys in the roofs of our factories.
当我们在烹制那些用来做薯片的土豆片时，其中的水分通常都会通过工厂屋顶的烟囱逸散出去了。
So maybe you should drink a bottle of water before making a decision about your stock portfolio, for example.
所以，比如说在作出一个关于你的股票投资组合之前或许你应该喝一瓶水。
Growing biomass, even on marginal agricultural land, does require water, as does making electricity.
生长的生物物质，甚至在贫瘠的土地上，也需要水，发电也是如此。
The most pressing task for us to tackle, in my opinion, is to find new ways of making best of water resources now available.
依我看，亟待我们完成的最紧迫的任务是，找到可以充分利用我们现有的水资源的新方法。
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