But the Badlands landscape also includes mixed grass prairie and rugged spires.

但是荒地景观也包括混合的草地和崎岖的尖塔。

Iowa and Illinois, for example, lost over 99% of their natural prairie grass landscape over the last two centuries, mostly to agriculture.

例如，在过去的两个世纪里，爱荷华州和伊利诺伊州失去了 99% 以上的天然草原草地景观，主要是农业。

Only the wind rustled in the prairie grasses.

只有风在草原草丛中沙沙作响。

The bison's work is not limited to grazing, or eating the prairie grasses.

野牛的工作不仅限于放牧或吃草原草。

The prairie grasses bowed their heads and whispered in the wind.

草原上的小草低着头， 在风中低语。

When Laura looked up those bluffs, she couldn't see the prairie grass at all.

当劳拉抬头看那些断崖时，她根本看不到草原草。

The sunshine was blistering, even the winds were hot, and the prairie grasses were turning yellow.

阳光明媚， 连风也很热，草原上的草都变黄了。

Some darker green tree-tops showed, and beyond them bits of the rim of earthen bluffs held up the prairie's grasses.

一些深绿色的树顶露出来了，在它们之外， 土质悬崖的边缘支撑着大草原的草。

In some places along the iron rails, mounds of buffalo bones rose almost as high as the ancient prairie grasses.

在铁轨沿线的一些地方，成堆的水牛骨头几乎和古老的草原草一样高。

The fact that the locusts preferred cultivated crops to prairie grasses ensured that their massive swarms caught the attention of white settlers...though really, the locusts would have been hard to miss.

相较于平原上的牧草，蝗虫更爱庄稼，这使它们的聚群引起了白人居民的注意… … 尽管蝗虫真的很难被忽略。

You may hear the fire begin to roar already; and I know by experience that when the flame once gets fairly into the prairie grass, he is no sloth that can outrun it.

你可能听到之前火咆哮的声音了，而且根据经验我知道一旦火焰进入草原的草丛，就太难逃出去了。”