At the turn of spring and summer, reed leaves green in the lake and vast expanses of water blue under the sky.

春夏之交,荡内苇叶青青,碧波万倾

The wide expanses of the Pacific

浩淼的太平洋海域

We are rich in resources and vast expanses of fertile land.

我国资源丰富,沃野千里。

There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.

在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的处女地。

In Roman architecture the pilaster gradually became more decorative than structural, and it served to break up otherwise empty expanses of wall.

在古罗马建筑中,壁柱逐渐失去结构意义而成为装饰,用以避免墙面的单调。

Experiments designed to detect evidence of living organisms provided no convincing evidence of life on the surface. The orbiters transmitted photographs of large expanses of the Martian surface.

专为寻找火星上的生命迹象而设计的实验则未得肯定结果,轨道器向地球发回了火星广阔表面的照片。

The style's most common characteristics are rectilinear forms, open interior spaces, large expanses of glass, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction.

最普遍的特征为︰直线形、毫无图案装饰的光平表面、宽敞的室内空间、大量采用,玻璃、钢铁及钢筋混凝土。

||1: Scepticism was her watchword. ||2: She eschewed political causes; her fight was “against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words”. ||3: Her favourite phrase was “I don't know”. ||4: She told the Nobel audience: “It's small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended.” ||5: Without it, she said, Isaac Newton would have gobbled apples rather than pondering the force that makes them drop. ||6: Her compatriot Marie Sklodowska-Curie would have “wound up teaching chemistry at some private high school for young ladies from good families.”

||1:怀疑主义是她的口号。||2:她远避政治；她的斗争是针对那些“会用词太多的差劲诗人”。||3:她最喜欢的词组是“我不知道”。||4:她在诺贝尔颁奖礼上对观众这样说，“怀疑是渺小的，但有着坚强的翅膀。它扩大了我们的生活，包括我们生存的空间，和我们渺小的地球悬挂在的外太空。”||5:她说，没有它，艾萨克-牛顿当时也许只是狼吞虎咽地吃了那个苹果，而非思索是什么力量让苹果掉落下来。||6:她的同胞玛丽-居里也许最后只是在某所私立女子贵族高中教化学。

||1:Mr Leach's compelling thesis is that 19th-century America provided a uniquely hospitable time and place for lovers, and especially collectors, of butterflies.||2:Agricultural toil and westward expansion brought droves of ordinary people into intimate contact with vast expanses of pristine lands.||3:Most 19th-century Americans, Mr Leach writes—uncharitably but probably accurately—saw nature “as something to dig up or harvest from the earth or to be torn down and transformed into real estate or money”, and yet because there was so much untouched land, even the most rapacious miner or builder would in the course of his life come into contact with the natural world on a scale and in a way unknown to Americans today.

||1:里奇先生的有趣命题是：19世纪的美国为蝴蝶爱好者，特别是收藏家提供了一个独一无二的热情好客的时代。||2:农业耕作和西部扩张将大批的普通人与广袤无际的未开垦土地紧密联系在一起。||3:大多数19世纪的美国人，里奇先生写道，视自然为“可以从地下挖掘或从地上收割的，可以推倒盖房子或者卖钱的东西”，他的评语尽管尖刻，却也许十分精准。可是因为有如此之多未开垦的土地，即使是最贪婪的财主和建设者也会在他一生中与大自然发生联系,这种联系无论从规模上、在形式上， 都是如今的美国人无法想象的。

Primitive humans, clad in animal skins, trekking across vast expanses of ice in a desperate search to find food.

穿着动物皮的原始人在广袤的冰原上辛苦地搜寻食物。

How sea turtles navigate across vast expanses of featureless ocean to reach feeding and breeding sites has long been a mystery.

海龟是如何横渡一望无际而又似乎毫无特色的海洋抵达遥远的捕食区和繁殖地的，这个问题长久以来一直是个海洋之谜。

For example, many of California's prisons are sited in the Central Valley's wide expanses , in what is sometimes called an "archipelago" .

例如，加利福尼亚许多监狱像人们有时候所说的“群岛”一样分布于中央谷广袤的土地上。

It masks a powerful impulse that is starting to reshape continental Asia's territorial expanses .

另一股强大的动力正呼之欲出，开始重塑扩张的亚洲大陆。

The men who worked the cattle in the treeless expanses of the West, at least one-fourth of them blacks, became known as cowboys.

那些在荒芜广阔的西部驱使牛工作的人有至少四分之一是黑人，他们被认知为牛仔。

It is overfished, chiefly, it is true, in coastal waters, but also in the great expanses that belong to no state.

首先，在沿海海域和大片公海都存在过度捕捞的问题。

Everywhere he looked he saw the evidence of vast expanses of time.

他在所见之处见证了时间的广阔无边。

Its expanses and its desert leave military forces vulnerable and often draw them into overextending their advances;

它广阔的国土和沙漠让军队变得脆弱，同时常常会让他们过分张开他们的进攻范围；

Many more voyages of discovery are also needed, especially in the vast expanses of the southern seas that remain relatively unexplored.

也需要更多的探索性的航行，特别是在广袤的南部海域，那里仍然有很多相对的未知数。

Storage areas and docksides are now packed with vast expanses of unsold cars as demand slumps

由于消费需求大减，仓库和码头上停得满是未售出的汽车。

The months leading up to May 13th will see a host of new claims to vast expanses of the seabed.

在5月13日之前的数月之中，联合国将收到许多要求延伸海底界限的新申请。

China's vast expanses , linked by an extensive network of newly built of freeways, could help business for supercar makers.

中国幅员辽阔，新修建的大量高速公路网为超级跑车提供巨大的市场。

Vast expanses of water

万顷碧波

a boundless expanses of snow

白雪漫漫

The blue expanses of the sky

广阔的蓝天