The Murray-Darling River Basin, covering about 14 percent of the continent, helps sustain wheat and wool industries.

Murray - Darling河盆地覆盖了这片大陆14%的区域，支撑了小麦和羊毛产业。

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In arid places the same physics amplify evaporation and drought, visible in the dust-dry farms of the Murray-Darling River Basin in Australia.

而在一些干旱地区这个物理规律却使得水分蒸发更快、干旱情况更加严重，我们可以从澳洲的莫瑞达令河流域农业旱情严重发现这一情况。

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Four are near Bourke, a Darling river town where Clyde (a subsidiary of the British-based Swire group) has been an economic mainstay for 20 years.

12处农场中有4处都在靠近达令河岸的小镇伯克，而克莱德农业公司(英国斯怀尔集团的子公司)20年来都是那里的一个经济支柱。

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Next morning, I stand on Bourke's reconstructed old wharf and look down at the olive-green Darling River.

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