The delta region of the Rio Grande river was a forsaken land of thickets and swamps.

格兰德河的三角洲地区是块布满了灌木丛及沼泽地的被遗忘之地。

For example, the Rio Grande pueblos already existed when the United States acquired sovereignty over New Mexico in 1848.

例如，当美国在1848年获得新墨西哥的主权时，大草原就已经存在了。

Arid lands, surprisingly, contain some of the world's largest river systems, such as the Murray-Darling in Australia, the Rio Grande in North America, the Indus in Asia, and the Nile in Africa.

令人惊讶的是，干旱地区拥有着世界上最大的一些河流系统，如澳大利亚的墨累-达令河、北美的里奥格兰德河、亚洲的印度河和非洲的尼罗河。

What caused the explosion in Monte Grande?

什么引起来蒙特·格兰德镇的爆炸？

Let's say you buy a grande latte each morning at the coffee shop.

假设你每天早上在一家咖啡店买一大杯拿铁。

The successful use of irrigation evident in the extensive Casa Grande village.

对灌溉技术的成功利用体现在广阔的卡萨格兰德村庄。

The Rio Grande formed part of the border between the United States and Mexico.

格兰德河是美国与墨西哥边界的一部分。

Texas is targeting more than 400, 000 Medicaid beneficiaries in the Rio Grande Valley.

德克萨斯州计划将里奥格兰德谷的医疗补助对象扩展到40万人以上。

On Wednesday, Grande took his two young children back home for the first time in months.

周三，大个子几个月以来第一次把他的两个孩子接回了家。

She is playing to a public that is more anti-American than any other south of the Rio Grande.

她是在做给格兰德河以南最反美的公众看。

Everyone along the valley of the Rio Grande seems to believe that the border is slowly closing.

格兰德山谷两边的人似乎都相信边界正在缓慢关闭。

His coffin was draped in a Botafogo flag as he was led to his final resting place in Pau Grande.

他的棺材披上了博塔弗戈的队旗，运回波格兰德永世长眠。

Snow geese in New Mexico's Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge flock along the Rio Grande

雪雁在美国新墨西哥州阿帕奇德尔博斯克国家野生动物保护区内沿着格兰德河成群而行。

Building on this success demands new thinking, both within Latin America and north of the Rio Grande.

在此成功上继续建设还需要新的思考方式，不管是在拉美地区内还是格兰德河以北。

In his trademark black cap, Mr Shanibah is a tall, gentle-looking man, nicknamed "Grande" for his size.

戴着那标志性的黑帽子，Shanibah先生看起来是个高大而且有教养的男子，因为他的身形而被伙伴们起了个外号“大个子”。

A muffin could have 11 teaspoons of sugar added, and a grande vanilla latte at Starbucks has about seven teaspoons.

一个松饼可能就含有11茶匙糖分，而星巴克里大的香草拿铁就有7茶匙糖。

All this with the meandering bend in the Rio Grande and the Sierra del Carmen beckoning from across the river in Mexico.

所有这些与蜿蜒弯曲的格兰德河和卡门山脉一起在河对岸的墨西哥向你招手。

Situated between two primary canals, the Casa Grande site has been the focus of nearly 9 decades of archaeological work.

位于两条大运河之间的卡萨·格兰德遗址几乎花费了考古学家90年的时间来研究。

The painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte" by Seurat is probably the most famous work of pointillism.

修拉的《在拉·格兰德·加特岛的一个星期天下午》大概是最有名的点彩派画了。

For its neighbour across the Rio Grande, too, this election matters more than any of the many others in Latin America this year.

因此,本周周末的墨西哥更象处于成败关头.对他的格兰德河对岸的邻居而言,也是如此,本次大选的重要性远远超过今年其他拉美国家的选举.墨西哥并不仅仅是美国非法移民和卡可因的供应地;

Small for his age, his sister Rosa began to call him Garrincha, a north-eastern name for the wren, a small bird popular in Pau Grande.

很小的时候，他的姐姐罗莎开始喊他“加林查”，这是东北部人对鹪鹩，一种在波格兰德随处可见的小鸟的称呼。

Most cases in Brazil are concentrated in Rio Grande do Sul, the state that borders both Uruguay and Argentina, and in Sã o Paulo.

巴西流感受感染的人员主要集中在与乌拉圭和阿根廷接壤的南里奥格兰德州和圣保罗市。

“Goodbye, dear grande viveuse,” Henry James wrote to her in the final year of his life. “Keep rising above (you do it so splendidly).”

亨利·詹姆斯晚年曾写信给她：“再见了，我亲爱的养尊处优的夫人，请继续克服种种，拔群出萃（您已如此成功地做到这一点）。”

Going to the gym and eating a healthy breakfast will have a much greater impact than the short term rush of drinking a grande soy latte.

到健身房去锻炼或吃一顿健康的早晨，从长期来看，它所带来的价值要远远高于仓促地喝杯豆浆所带来的短期价值。

Glitzy pet superstores, which account for more than a fifth of pet-product sales in America and Canada, barely exist south of the Rio Grande.

装饰豪华的大型宠物店在美国和加拿大占到宠物产品市场的五分之一以上，却几乎不存在于格兰德河(译者注：美国和墨西哥之间分界的河流)以南的地区。

The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul will not necessarily be delighted to learn that GDP per person in their state is close to that of Gabon.

然而，巴西南大河州人民如果得知自己的人均GDP与加蓬接近，不一定会高兴。

La Nacion is reporting that an unknown explosion has leveled a few buildings, killing at least one person, in the town of Monte Grande, Argentina.

《民族报》报导了一起事故：在阿根廷的蒙特·格兰德镇，一场不明原因的爆炸将一些房屋移为平地，并至少杀死一人。