They work and live on soft ground, like irrigated fields and stables.

它们在软土地上工作和生活，如灌溉田地和马厩。

Each one of these tiny circles is an irrigated field half a mile in diameter.

每一个小圆圈都是直径半英里的灌溉田。

Sanchez-Bayo proved that in Japan — where he studied irrigated rice fields over a 2-year period.

桑切斯-巴约在日本证明了这一点——他在那里花了两年时间研究灌溉稻田。

Water from there irrigates all the fields outside it.

从亚马逊雨林流出来的河流灌溉了雨林外的所有土地。

But there's no point irrigating the fields with salt water.

但是用盐水灌溉农田是没有意义的。

Back in about the 1900s there were engineers working on irrigating the fields of the American southwest.

大约在1900年代，拓荒者在美国西南方垦植农田。他们使用科罗拉多河的水，但他们也试着。

But in the last 19 years, farmers have had to pump water through white plastic pipes to irrigate the fields.

但在过去的19年里，农民不得不通过白色塑料管抽水来灌溉田地。

The mountain spring water flows down, bringing trace elements to the soil, irrigating the lotus fields at the foot of the mountain all the year round.

高山的山泉水顺势流下携带着土壤中的微量元素常年灌溉着山脚下的莲田。

Instead of which, a few streams dribbled through to fill reservoirs and irrigate fields and plantations with a disciplined conscientiousness worthy of a sanitary engineer.

取而代之的是， 几条小溪流过水库， 灌溉田地和种植园， 其纪律严明的责任心堪比卫生工程师。