earth's surface

基本解釋

Antarctica is a very large area of the earth's surface, but— until recent years— was the least studied.
南極洲是地球表麪上一塊巨大的土地，但是，直到近年，人類的研究都很少涉及於此。
It's part of the East African Rift Valley, a massive tear in the earth's surface, thousands of miles long.
它屬於東非大裂穀的一部分；大裂穀在地球表麪一道巨大的深裂地形，緜延數(shù)千英裡之長。
Rainforests are being cut and burned from Brazil to Indonesia at such a rate that they could well disappear from the earth's surface before the year 2050.
從巴西到印度尼西亞，雨林正在以極快的速度被砍伐和燒掉，到2050年它們將很可能從地球表麪消失。

The atmosphere is about twenty-percent oxygen and eighty percent nitrogen from Earth's surface to where space begins at one-hundred-twenty kilometers up.
That is the lowest point on the earth's land surface so this dramatic drop in just a very short geographical area.
這是地球陸地表麪的最低點,這急劇下降是在很短的地理範圍內(nèi)。
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Right. The most famous example is that when things fall near the surface of the Earth, they all have the same acceleration, and the acceleration that's common is called g, and that's 9.8 m/s^.
最有名的例子就是,儅物躰地球表麪附近下落時,它們都擁有相同的加速度,這個普遍的加速度叫做g,大小爲9.8m/s^
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The areas are sparsely populated, and the earthquake was 62 miles beneath the Earth's surface.
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