He said nomads and herders are in conflict with farmers because the changing climate has brought drought and a shortage of fertile lands.
他说游牧民族和牧民同农民正处在激烈的冲突之中，原因就是正在变化的气候已经引发干旱和良田的短缺。May I never live to see the day when these fields are turned into building plots.
但愿我活着见不到这些良田都成了建筑工地的那一天。Large parcels of good land can be hard to find. What is out there doesn't come up for sale very often.
大片的良田不容易找到，而良田很少会上市出卖。Wolfowitz will visit a World Bank and government funded program, aimed at turning part of the dry arid desert into lush green usable land.
沃尔福维茨将视察世界银行和中国政府的项目，这些项目旨在把干旱荒芜的沙漠变成绿油油的良田。The farmers have taken strenuous pains to turn the barren land into productive fields.
农民们历尽艰辛把贫瘠之地变成了多产的良田。Within a few years they had transferred barren wastes into fertile fields.
几年之内他们就把荒地变成了良田。Just like a raging flood merciless paws, several thousand mu of fertile farmland were flooded and hundreds of people homeless.
肆虐的洪水像一只只无情的魔爪，几千万亩良田被淹，几百万人痛失家园。Young people, especially young men, have been abandoning rural villages for better jobs in cities.
年轻人，特别是大量的年轻男人，为了在城市打工谋生陆陆续续地离开了农村，因此荒芜了大片大片的良田。When European settlers moved west across America, they found that the prairies made excellent farmland.
当欧洲殖民者迁移到美国的西部，他们发现这片大草原可以变成良田。