The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.

大雨和洪水淹死了许多家畜。

The robots are not limited to herding and monitoring livestock.

这些机器人并非仅能用于放牧和监控牲畜。

A livestock vaccine against the disease exists but is rarely used.

有一种家畜疫苗可以预防这种疾病，但它很少被使用。

Livestock, like cows and sheep, also consume large amounts of crops.

和牛羊一样，家畜也消耗了大量的农作物。

Early farmers started clearing forests and livestock produced a lot of extra methane.

早期的农民开始砍伐森林，牲畜产生了大量额外的甲烷。

Pastoralism is a lifestyle in which economic activity is based primarily on livestock.

游牧是一种生活方式，其经济活动以饲养牲畜为主。

More than half of the agricultural land in the world is used to raise and feed livestock.

世界上超过一半的农业用地被用来饲养牲畜。

The report also says that intensive livestock operations can pose serious ecological risks.

该报告还指出，集约化的畜牧业经营会带来严重的生态风险。

The next question that arises is how I am going to give this to the livestock, and to the cows in particular.

下一个问题是我要如何把这些东西给牲畜，特别是给牛。

For example, many rural tenants still have the right of "estoyers", the right to cut bracken as bedding for livestock and uses.

例如，许多农村租户仍然拥有“estoyers”权，即砍下蕨类植物作为牲畜的床上用品和用途的权利。

Insects produce less ammonia than pig and poultry farming, ten times less methane than livestock, and 300 times less nitrous oxide.

昆虫产生的氨比猪和家禽少，它们产生的甲烷比家畜少十倍，而产生的一氧化二氮比家畜少三百倍。

A midge, named Culicoide, carries bluetongue, a devastating livestock disease that is moving northwards in Europe due to climate change.

蝙蝠吃一种叫做 Culicoides 的蠓，它携带蓝舌病，蓝舌病是一种毁灭性的牲畜疾病，由于气候变化，它正在向欧洲北部转移。

They were also pioneers who carried with them everything they would need to build new lives—their livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools.

他们也是先驱者，带着一切建立新生活所需的东西——他们的牲畜、芋头苗和石器。

The raising of livestock is a major economic activity in semiarid lands, where grasses are generally the dominant type of natural vegetation.

在半干旱地区，草地通常是最主要的天然植被，而该地区主要的经济活动是家畜饲养。

The increased productivity from farmland made some countries self-sufficient in grain and livestock, and offered effective protection against famine.

农田生产力的提高使一些国家在粮食和牲畜方面能自给自足，并为防止饥荒提供了有效的保护。

That supplies 80 percent of what is consumed, so even covering the whole country in livestock farms wouldn't allow us to cover all our meat and dairy needs.

这提供了80%的消耗量，因此，即使将牲畜养殖场覆盖到整个国家，也不能完全满足我们肉类和乳制品需求。

Corn is extensively used as feed for livestock, and because profit margins are tight in the livestock business, many farmers are expected to leave the business.

玉米被广泛用作牲畜饲料，由于畜牧业的利润率很低，许多农民预计将退出这一行业。

A United Nations report says reaching that goal will require major increases in intensive, high-efficiency livestock operations for both meat and dairy production.

联合国的一份报告说，要实现这一目标，就必须大力增加密集高效的畜牧业生产，以生产肉类和奶制品。

That's why environmental critics are calling instead for reductions in global livestock production, and urging people to consume less, not more, meat in their diets.

这就是为什么环境评论家反而呼吁减少全球牲畜生产，并敦促人们减少而不是增加他们饮食中的肉类消耗。

Livestock could be driven across the mountains, but the cost of transporting bulky grains in this fashion was several times greater than their value in eastern markets.

牲畜可以被赶过山区，但以这种方式运输大量谷物的成本要比它们在东部市场的价值高出好几倍。

In what's probably the craziest headline I've ever written, I've reported that advances in livestock protection are happening with scientists painting eyes on the butts of cows.

在我曾写过的可能最为疯狂的新闻报道中，我曾报道过科学家在牛屁股上画眼睛的实验，这是牲畜保护方面所取得的进步。

If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswana—and elsewhere—with a low-cost, sustainable tool to protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.

如果这个方法奏效的话，它能给博茨瓦纳以及其他地区的农民提供一种低成本、可持续的手段去保护牲畜，同时也能避免狮子被杀死。

Robots are currently under a two-year trial in Wales which will train "farmbots" to herd, monitor the health of livestock, and make sure there is enough pasture for them to graze on.

目前，威尔士正在对机器人进行为期两年的试验，他们将训练“农场机器人”来放牧、监测牲畜的健康状况，并确保有足够的草场来饲养他们。

They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies to war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly.

它们培养菌类，将蚜虫当作家畜来饲养，发对军队作战，使用化学喷雾来警告和迷惑敌人，捕获奴隶，雇佣童工，并且不停地交换信息。

This was important to her as an equipment designer for the livestock industry.

作为一名畜牧业设备设计师，这对她来说很重要。

I didn't really understand his world either: He was a livestock trucker, and I thought that I would surpass anything he had accomplished by the time I walked across the stage at high school graduation.

我也没有真正理解他的世界。他是一个牲畜卡车司机，而我认为当我在高中毕业典礼上走过主席台时，我会超过他所取得的任何成就。

The consequences of an excessive number of livestock grazing in an area are the reduction of the vegetation cover and the trampling and pulverization of the soil.

在一个地区过度放牧的后果是植被覆盖的减少和对土壤的践踏和粉碎。

Livestock wagons have been painted.

已经对牲畜货车涂了油漆。

West says that drones can be used for crop-dusting and tracking livestock.

韦斯特说，无人机可用于作物喷粉和追踪牲畜。

Both men and livestock are flourishing.

人畜两旺。