- A single shower can enable seeds that have lain dormant for 30 years or more to burst into life.
一场大雨使得在地下沉睡了30多年的 种子迸发出生命的活力 - And there hasn't been a bloom like this one for a century.
这里已有一个世纪 没有像现在这样开满鲜花 - The periods of boom in Death Valley are short.
死亡谷中的花期很短 - but they're just frequent enough to keep life ticking over.
但它们发生的次数 足以保证生命长盛不衰 - A sudden flush of vegetation is what every desert dweller waits for,
植物的突然兴盛是 所有沙漠动物都盼望的事 - and when it happens they must make the most of it.
一旦发生 它们必须尽可能地利用它 - There is no other species on the planet that responds as quickly and as dramatically to the good times as the desert locust.
好日子到来时 地球上没有其它物种 能像沙漠蝗那样迅速而又戏剧性地作出反应
but they're just frequent enough to keep life ticking over. 但它们发生的次数 足以保证生命长盛不衰
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