• 河北发现干热岩

    19-07-02 Geological workers in north Chinas Hebei Province have dug into a reserve of hot, dry rocks. 河北省地质工作人员发现一处干热岩体。 A geological team managed to dig into the hot, dry rocks that are at a temperature of 150 degrees Celcius and a depth o...

  • 大学英语六级常用固定搭配 3

    16-10-10 side effect 副作用 stay alert to 对警觉 guard against 防止;提防 adverse effect 不利影响;副作用 get used to 习惯于 refrain from 克制;抑制;忍住 hold up阻挡;拦截 from bad to worse 每况愈下;越来越糟 count in 把计算在内 tend to 趋向;易于;有的倾向...

  • drynuary 戒酒的一月

    16-02-23 Drynuary is the practice of not drinking for the entire month of January -- staying dry -- usually in response to over-consumption during the holidays. It's also a campaign to encourage abstinence from alcohol during January. 戒酒的一月是指整个一月...

  • Drought Fishing

    15-01-15 Drought Fishing Thomas Reiter Mid-riverbed, below rapids dry as the track left by a pencil eraser, I come to a pool that from bank-side glints like the last thin dime the water's down to. I circle it in minutes, and though I can't see the bottom, I...

  • Low Tide

    14-11-24 Low Tide Alan Shapiro On the mud flats where Im walking each step pushes the wet out from beneath it to a dry halo of a heel and toe which as I lift it dampens to a trail of pools behind me as I walk -- I make them all along the flats and when I cir...

  • Even Those

    14-04-17 Even Those Maureen N. McLane Even the places the sun doesn't reach in the deepest woods are hot. Even the places that never dry -- the mosses creeping everywhere a damp carpet underfoot -- are dry. Even the quietest places you've never been are disq...

  • Buy the ice

    13-10-10 Once a simpleton's wife told him to buy some ice. Two hours later, he didn't come back. She wanted to know why he didn't come back and went out to have a look. She saw he was standing in the sun at the gate and watching the ice melting. What's the m...

  • 蚯蚓能在干旱的土壤中维持3周生命

    13-09-21 Earthworms are a welcomed sight in many gardens and yards since they can improve soil structure and mixing. But they are hard to find in the drier soils of eastern Colorado where water and organic matter is limited. Adding earthworms to fields where...

  • 根据树的年轮推测干旱年份

    12-07-03 Through an exploration of tree rings and oxygen isotopes, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are now able to better pinpoint the history of droughts in the arid(干旱的) and semiarid areas of the American West. A paper published in the onl...

  • 干旱季节树蛙如何收集水份

    11-10-03 Research published in the October issue of The American Naturalist shows that Australian green tree frogs survive the dry season with the help of the same phenomenon that fogs up eyeglasses in the winter. According to researchers from Charles Darwin...