arid land

基本解释

Both tree species hug water sources in this arid land of high plateaus and rock towers.
在岩石成塔的高原贫瘠地带，这两种树涵蓄了水源。
Moreover, algae might be grown on arid land and brackish water, so that fuel production would not compete with food production.
此外，藻类还可以生长在贫瘠的地方或者咸水中，因此生产生物燃料不会影响粮食生产。
Only a thin layer of dust travels over land outside of the eastern edge of the desert, indicating that the dust may be lying low over the arid land, rather than rising high in the atmosphere.
沙漠东部以外的土地上仅仅只覆盖了薄薄的一层，这也就表明这些尘埃或许倾向于落在地势低而干燥的地方，而不是高高的升到大气中。

Farmers soak up about 85% of the border region's scarce water, and on the semi-arid land on both sides they grow thirsty cash crops like sugar cane.
ECONOMIST: IOU H2O
It is an arid, lonesome land, cut only by the blue scalpel line of the Rio Grande.
ECONOMIST: The Mexican border
Biomes such as river, estuary (the mouth of the Limary River), coastline, semi-arid sclerophyll shrub land and evergreen relict forest are represented.
UNESCO: EDUCATION

干旱区
The influence of change in water resources on environment is consp-icuous in fragile zone of arid land.
水资源条件的变化对环境的影响突出反映在干旱区环境生态脆弱地带,并以地下水或地表水变化对环境中的植物因素产生影响。