The vast grasslands of the High Plains in the central United States were settled by farmers and ranchers in the 1880s.
在19世纪80年代，美国中部的高地平原大草原是由农民和牧场主开垦的。
Ogallala water has enabled the High Plains region to supply significant amounts of the cotton, sorghum, wheat, and corn grown in the United States.
奥加拉拉河使高平原地区能够向美国供应大量棉花、高粱、小麦和玉米。
"High plains," his father said from the front seat.
“高地平原，”他父亲在前排座位说。
Scoured by gusting sand, a Chipaya woman follows her sheep home across the high plains.
一个支帕亚妇女顶着一阵狂沙，跟着她的羊群穿过高原回家。
In the high plains area is Lake Titicaca, the highest lake in the world, on which boats can travel.
在高原地区有的的喀喀湖，这是世界上海拔最高的湖，湖上可以行船。
Altogether, between 1866 and 1888, some six million head of cattle were driven up from Texas to winter on the high plains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.
在1866年至1888年间，大约有六百万头牛从得州放牧到科罗拉多、怀俄明、蒙大拿等地的高原上过冬。
After that, the energy has to be moved from where it is easily gathered, such as the sunny American Southwest or the windy High Plains, to the places it can be used.
其次就是如何转移能源。 比方说，美国的西南部阳光充足，能源作物生长茂盛，生物质能丰富；高原地区风力强劲，风能储量大。
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。
And the only available land was either high up on the hills above the city, where the views are unrivalled but the risk of landslides ever-present, or low down on the flood plains.
现成的地只有城市之上的山冈，虽然有无与伦比的视角，但是长期以来有山体滑坡的威胁；又或者只能把房子盖到洪水泛滥的平原地区。
Quinoa, domesticated thousands of years ago on Bolivia's arid high mountain plains and now often misrepresented as a grain, is actually a chenopod, related to species like beets and spinach.
在玻利维亚干旱的高山平原，种植藜麦已有数千年历史，它现在常被误认作是一种谷物，实际这是一种藜科植物，与甜菜与菠菜之类作物相近。
The surface of some areas consists largely of high mountains and deep valleys whilst, in other areas, most of the surface consists of plains.
一些区域的地表由大量的高山和深谷组成，而其它区域，大部分地表却由平原组成。
Drought conditions and high winds have fueled destructive wildfires in northern Mexico and the southern U.S. plains states, especially Texas, where dozens of homes have burned in recent days.
干旱的气候和大风使墨西哥北部和美国南部一些州的野火更加肆虐，尤以德克萨斯州为甚。近些天，德州已经有数十座住宅起火。
The eclipsed sun seems to hover over the horizon on Sunday, barely lighting the high, snowy plains of Patagonia in southern Argentina.
从阿根廷南部巴塔哥尼亚上的雪原上看去，被遮蔽的太阳如同徘徊在地平线上，勉强的发出一些光芒。
The salt plains here are a pure white expanse, surrounded by high mountains.
这里的盐化平原一片洁白，四周环绕着高山。
This animal was held in high esteem among the Mongols, for it is physically adapted for traversing the sandy plains of the Gobi Desert.
蒙古人对这种动物非常看重，因为它的身体非常适于穿越戈壁滩的沙漠地带。
A high-pressure ridge that has set up over the Southern Plains has been really persistent there. It has pushed a lot of active or violent weather to the east.
阿尔恩特说，“在南部平原区形成的高压脊十分顽固，引起了其东部地区活跃甚至是猛烈的天气现象。”
The United States is a varied land—of forests, deserts, mountains, high flat lands and fertile plains.
美国是一个地形多样的国家—有森林、沙漠、山脉、平坦的高原和肥沃的平原。
In the United States, there are wide plains and high mountains, thousands of lakes and rivers of all sizes, cool forests and hot deserts, and a coastline several thousand miles long.
美国有广袤的平原、高大的山脉、数以千计形状各异的江河湖泊、凉爽的森林、炎热的沙漠，以及长达数千英里的海岸线。
Severe weather moved through the Plains states over the weekend, bringing high winds, heavy rains and tornadoes.
周末，恶劣天气席卷了中部大平原地区，并带来强风，暴雨及龙卷风。
And now they were so high that they could see tiny-looking jagged mountains appearing beyond the northwest moors, and plains of what looked like sand far in the south.
他们现在的高度已能看见参差不齐的群山逶迤在北方沼泽地后面，显得很小。遥远的南方，伸展着一片沙地一样的平原。
Outside the moon is high with a dark-blue sky behind it and with mountains, plains and forests of silver lying below.
窗外，月亮高悬在深蓝的天幕上，而天幕下是银色的山峦、森林和平川。
S.. China's geography is highly diverse, with hills, plains, and river deltas in the east and deserts, high plateaus, and mountains in the west.
中国的地理状况呈现高度的多样化，在东部有山区、平原和河流三角洲，在西部有沙漠、高原和山地。
In plains or key passages it was built very high and solid, while relatively low and narrow on high and steep mountains to reduce the cost of money and man labor.
凡在平原或要隘之处修筑得十分高大坚固；在高山险峻之处却较为低矮狭窄，以节约人力和费用；
If the river of life has smoothly crossed plains, high mountains and woods, you are beautiful even if you are getting old.
如果生命之河穿越了平原、高山和丛林，人到老年也是美的。
If the river of life has smoothly crossed plains, high mountains and woods, you are beautiful even if you are getting old.
如果生命之河穿越了平原、高山和丛林，人到老年也是美的。
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