- is now crucial to most of the animals that live or even travel through this land.
如今已关系到大部分 在此生活和旅行的动物
- The scarcity of rain determined the shape of this icon of the desert
缺少雨水的环境塑造了这些沙漠中的图标
- but water, scarce thought it is, has also, like the wind, shaped the land itself.
尽管水很少 但它也和风一样 造就了各种地形
- In the deserts of Utah
在犹他州的沙漠中
- ancient rivers flowing across sandstone country steadily widen their canyons
古老的河流冲开岩壁 不断拓宽这些峡谷
- until now the land between them has been reduced to spires and pinnacles.
直到把其间的土地削凿成 今天这样的尖峰和石塔
- With little or no soil to retain the water on the surface of the land
由于几乎没有土壤保留地表水分
来自《行星地球 第一季 第五集 Planet Earth S01E05 沙漠》第 190 行