But, sell not all thou hast, except thou come and follow me; that is, except thou have a vocation, wherein thou mayest do as much good, with little means as with great; for otherwise, infeeding the streams, thou driest the fountain

但除非你已要跟神一道走,否则还是不要把你的一切都卖掉。

He gives the driest speech I’ve ever listened to.

他做了我所听过的最枯燥的报告。

It was the driest summer in years.

这是多年来最干旱的夏天。

Large parts of South America suffered from a prolonged drought. Chile is dealing with a ten-year-long megadrought linked to climate change. This year, Brazil saw one of its driest years in a century.

南美洲大部分地区遭遇长期干旱。智利正在应对跟气候变化相关的长达十年的特大干旱。今年，巴西经历了一个世纪以来最干旱的一年。

||1:The state is drier as well as hotter.||2:California has experienced droughts throughout history, but the one between 2011 and 2019 was the longest and driest recorded.||3:According to a study in Nature Geosciences in 2019, that drought killed almost 150m trees, leading to a state of emergency in 2019 intended to help reduce the huge build-up of flammable dead wood.||4:Too late.||5:Drought returned this year, when the state had its driest February on record (matters improved a bit later).||6:A recent study in Environmental Research Letters by Michael Goss of Stanford University and others found that climate change had doubled the number of days of extreme risk for wildfires in the state during autumn.

||1:加州气候干旱且炎热。||2:加州在历史上经历过干旱，但2011年至2019年间的干旱是有史以来历时最长、最干燥的一次。||3:根据《自然地球科学》2019年的一项研究，那场干旱导致近1.5亿树木死亡，也致使加州在2019年进入紧急状态，意图帮助减缓易燃枯木的大量增长。||4:但是太晚了。||5:今年旱灾复发，加州经历了有史以来最干旱的2月（后来情况有所好转）。||6:斯坦福大学的迈克尔·戈斯等人最近在《环境研究快报》上发表的一项研究发现，气候变化使加州秋季发生极端野火灾害的天数增加了一倍。

||1:The U.S. National Park Service says Death Valley is “famous as the hottest place on earth and driest place in North America.”||2:The desert area also includes Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America at 85.9 meters below sea level.||3:During the summer, the heat is trapped by the high valley walls and heated even more by the air pressure at its low point.

||1:美国国家公园管理局表示，死亡谷作为地球上最热的地方，也是北美最干燥的地方而闻名。||2:这片沙漠地区还包括北美最低点恶水盆地，其海拔低于海平面85.9米。||3:在夏季，热量被高高的山谷壁围困住，并在其最低点被气压加至更热。

The government of Australia promised more aid to farmers stricken by drought. The entire state of New South Wales, which produces a quarter of Australia’s agricultural output, was declared to be in drought after recording its driest January to July period since 1965.

澳大利亚政府承诺向遭受旱灾的农民提供更多援助。整个新南威尔士州的农业产量占澳大利亚总产量的四分之一，在经历了1965年以来最干旱的1月至7月之后，新南威尔士州宣布进入干旱状态。

The South-West of the United States, together with adjacent parts of Mexico across the Rio Grande, is one of the driest parts of the North American continent.

美国西南部，以及横跨格兰德河的墨西哥相邻部分是北美大陆最干燥的地区之一。

“Even the driest deserts on the Earth have more water than are at the poles and the surfaces of the moon, ” Green said.

Green表示：“就是在地球最干燥的沙漠，土壤里的水含量也要比月球两极和表面的多。”

California, for example, has suffered a drought for the past two years and just experienced the driest spring in recorded history.

比如在加利福尼亚，过去两年里遭遇了一场干旱，又刚刚度过有史以来最干燥的春天。

Here it’s just miles of burnt grass. This is the driest it has been for 117 years, apparently.

但是在这里只有数英里火烧过的野草，显然今年是117年以来最干旱的一年。

The failure of rains, in what is thought to be the driest year for 60 years in certain areas, has caused the immediate crisis.

干旱是该危机的直接原因，某些地区被认为是60年来最干旱的一年。

The first five months of this year was the driest such period in the valley in its 118 years of record-keeping, the authority said.

官方当局声称，今年前五个月份最为干旱，打破了在该流域保持了一百一十八年的记录。

The desert is the driest in the world, according to Nasa, which has tested its Mars rovers there.

据美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）表示，阿塔卡马是世界上最干旱的沙漠。他们火星探测器就是在那里测试的。

Well, with some heavy February downpours following one of the driest Januarys on record, positively verdant is the answer right now.

考虑到在经历了历史上最干燥的1月份后，2月份出现了大量降水，现在的答案应该是满目青翠。

Food inflation will hurt even the driest of the poor.

食品通货膨胀甚至会伤害到穷人的最根本利益。

April is the driest month in Beijing.

四月是北京最干燥的月份。

The Suguta Valley is one of the driest places in Kenya, and may be one of the driest places near Earth’s Equator.

苏加塔谷是肯尼亚最干旱的地区之一，也可能是地球赤道附近最干旱的地区之一。

He studied the Namib beetle, an ingenious species that lives in one of the driest places on earth.

他研究了纳米布甲虫，这是一种机灵的物种，生活在世界上最干燥的地方之一。

So researchers are turning to dust-cleaning technology developed for one of the driest , dustiest locations possible: Mars.

因此研究人员将目标转向在最干燥，扬尘最多的地方--火星开发除尘技术。

Life can be found in scalding, acidic hot pools, in the driest deserts, and in the dark, crushing depths of the ocean.

在滚烫、酸性的热池中，在最干燥的沙漠里，在黑暗、高压的海洋深处，都可以找到生命。

This is the driest continent in the world, and water restrictions are now the norm in most cities.

这是世界上最乾旱的大陆，现在大部分城市都有用水限制标准。