Drained bogs make up seven percent of arable land in Germany.

排干的沼泽占德国可耕地的7%。

And the arable land is the land where we can grow crops.

耕地是我们可以种植庄稼的土地。

They quickly amassed power, building businesses and claiming arable land that they transformed into plantations.

他们迅速积聚权力，建立企业，索取可耕地，把这些土地变成了种植园。

It is on this arable land that the farmers produce food for the whole population of China.

就是在仅有适于耕种的土地上农民们为全中国的广大人口生产着粮食。

But the rivers also helped to provide France with an abundance of arable land.

但这些河流也为法国提供了丰富的可耕地。

He says the country must retain a " red line" of 120 million hectares of arable land.

他表示，国家必须保留1.2亿公顷耕地的“红线”。

Seaweeds are marine organisms, which we can grow in the sea without any use of arable land and drinking water.

海藻是海洋生物，我们可以在海中培植，无需使用耕地和饮用水。

In south Darfur right now, they are only cultivating about a third of the arable land that they could be cultivating.

达尔富尔南部目前只有三分之一的耕地处于利用中。

So it's not just a sheer lack of fresh water and it's not just a sheer lack of arable land either.

因此，这不仅仅是纯粹的淡水缺乏，也不仅仅是纯粹的耕地缺乏。

And the modern French state has significantly more arable land than any other country in Europe except for Ukraine or Russia.

除了乌克兰或俄罗斯，现代法国国家的可耕地明显多于欧洲任何其他国家。

STEP 4 Tell them that much of the arable land worldwide is being used to grow grain to feed animals rather than people.

告诉他们，世界上大部分耕地都用来种植饲养动物的谷物，而不是用来供应人类食用。

In Africa, with each decade, more arable land becomes desert.

在非洲， 每过十年，就会有更多的耕地变成沙漠。

To put it in context, Australia has more arable land than Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all have combined.

相比之下，澳大利亚的耕地面积比印度尼西亚、马来西亚、新加坡、菲律宾、越南、柬埔寨和老挝的总和还要多。

Aqueducts were used for irrigating arable land.

沟渠被用来灌溉适于耕作的土地。

The rapid flares and extinctions at other points of the compass showed the lightest of fuel—straw, beanstalks, and the usual waste from arable land.

其它方位的篝火，火势来去匆匆，表明用的燃料是最不经烧的——庄稼地里收来的麦秆、豆秸或其它干草。

And one third of our arable land is used to grow feed to feed factory-farmed animals, rather than ourselves.

我们三分之一的耕地被用来种植饲料来喂养工厂化养殖的动物，而不是我们自己。

The new man was to have a big patch of arable land and forest down below Maaneland—there was land enough.

新人将在 Maaneland 下面拥有一大片耕地和森林——有足够的土地。

And this is a wonderful crop, one that does not require arable land, fresh water, neither fertilizers nor herbicides or pesticides.

这是一种极好的作物，不需要耕地、淡水、化肥、除草剂或杀虫剂。

By the 1930s, one company dominated the region: United Fruit, who owned over 40% of Guatemala's arable land at one point.

到 1930 年代，一家公司控制了该地区：United Fruit，曾一度拥有危地马拉 40% 以上的耕地。

Hitherto the government had followed the easy path of giving away arable land and selling forest and mineral lands at low prices.

迄今为止，政府一直走的是让出耕地、低价出售林地和矿产地的捷径。