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1·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。

2·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。

3·High plains, his father said from the front seat.

“高地平原，”他父亲在前排座位说。

4·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。

5·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。

6·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。

7·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。

8·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。

9·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。

10·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。