Indeed, Australia has been drying out for over a million years, and the megatauna were faced with a continent where vegetation began to disappear.

其实，澳大利亚已经干燥一百多年了，巨型金枪鱼所面临的大陆植被开始消失。

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The most successful groups of land plants are those that evolved methods of fertilized sex cell dispersal that are independent of water and structures that protest developing embryos from drying out.

最成功的陆生植物群体是那些进化出了受精性细胞散布方法的群体，这些方法不依赖于水和防止发育中的胚胎干涸的结构。

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They keep your eyes from drying out.

它们可以防止眼睛干燥。

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And then they found that they could freeze-dry this preparation of virus, and freeze-drying to lower the temperature, freeze it, then extract out all the water, so you're left with a powder, basically a powdered form of the virus, that could be shipped all over the world, and then reconstituted by adding water to it.

研究者们发现可以冷冻干燥这些病毒制剂,冷冻干燥就是就是降低温度,冷冻病毒,然后提取出所有水份,然后就剩下一些粉末,这主要是粉末状的病毒,这样就能将它运往全世界,并可以通过加水来恢复病毒的活性

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Lipman said Rosenthal wanted to write the story of Best "coming up against himself in a drying-out clinic".

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Overall, he said, climate models show a drying out of sub-Saharan Africa, while some other areas of the world will see more severe flooding.

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They treat the fibroin with salt, then mix it with the substance to be preserved and spread the result out as films, before freeze-drying it.

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