This caused huge rifts between these land masses and ultimately created the continents we see today.

这导致这些陆块间出现巨大裂缝，并且最终形成了我们今天看到的各个大陆。

Africa would probably be split into 2 different land masses with a few islands scattered between them.

非洲可能会被分成两个不同的大陆块，其中有一些岛屿散落在它们之间。

But most of the time the bears live directly on sea ice that can be found between land masses.

但大部分时候，北极熊会直接生活在陆地之间的冰面上。

When the different land masses began to move away from each other, they became the distinct continents we know now.

当各个大陆开始相互分离时，它们就变成了我们现在所熟知的不同的大陆。

A new ocean basin will form between the two sides, and Africa will be divided into two separate land masses.

一个新的海洋盆地将在两边之间形成，非洲将被分割成两个独立的大陆块。

252 million years ago, between the Permian and Triassic periods, the Earth's land masses gathered together into the single supercontinent Pangaea.

52亿年前， 在二叠纪和三叠纪时期之间，地球上的陆地聚集 成 一个超级大的盘古大陆。

Wallace had correctly identified that two former continuous land masses had existed on either side of this line in the deep past.

华莱士正确地指出有两块连续大陆在过去的很长一段时间里存在在线的一侧。

And land masses weren't the only things on the move.

陆地并不是唯一在移动的东西。

Or that land masses were connected to one another?

或者陆地块是相互连接的？

These oceanic islands differ from the continental islands that flank them in that they were never connected to either of the greater land masses.

这些大洋性岛屿与两侧的大陆性岛屿不同。他们从未与任何一块大的陆地相连。

It is better in the sense that there are no visibly evident distortions of the land masses.

从某种意义上说，陆地块没有明显的扭曲是更好的。

It canters through the formation of the Earth, with its shifting land masses and pop-up volcanic islands.

它缓缓穿过地球的形成过程，包括不断变化的陆地和突然出现的火山岛。

But the emphasis in that  video was upon the shallow seas adjoining the great continental land masses.

但该视频的重点是毗邻大陆的浅海。

Madagascar has been separated from all other land masses since the Late Cretaceous Period, about 85 million years ago.

自大约 8500 万年前的白垩纪晚期以来，马达加斯加就与所有其他陆地分开。

These small land masses were declared Australian external territories in 1947, but few have ever actually set foot on them.

这些小块土地在 1947 年被宣布为澳大利亚的外部领土，但很少有人真正踏上这些土地。

This suggested that these land masses were once positioned near the South Pole and had since drifted to their current locations.

这表明这些陆地曾经位于南极附近，后来漂移到了现在的位置。

This is the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, lying within a colossal rent in the Earth's surface where giant land masses are pulling away from one another.

这里是埃塞俄比亚境内的达纳吉尔凹地，位于地球表面的大裂谷内巨大的陆地板块在此互相分离。

When we return to shore, jaded from all these natural wonders, Conseil added, think how we'll look down on those pitiful land masses, those puny works of man!

“当我们回到地上的时候，”康塞尔又说，看惯了这许多自然界的神奇，对于陆地上那些贫乏可怜的人手造的简陋小东西，我们将怎么想呢！

You see for millions of years now, Australia has been effectively a lost continent, isolated from all the earth's other major land masses, drifting alone out in the sea.

数百万年来，澳大利亚实际上一直是一块失落的大陆，与地球上所有其他主要陆块隔绝，孤零零地漂流在海上。

Cambridge Dictionary defines a continent as " one of the seven large land masses on the Earth's surface, surrounded or mainly surrounded by sea" .

剑桥词典将大陆定义为“地球表面七大陆地之一，被海洋包围或主要被海洋包围” 。