矮树丛

This biome is called thornscrub and is one of the most common of all habitats on Earth.

这个生物群系叫做具刺矮树丛（thornscrub [2] ），是地球上最常见的动植物栖息地之一。

They could have found a cooler place, but they would not deny themselves such a romantic feature as the roasting camp-fire.

筏上原有的物件中有块旧帆，他们用它在矮树丛里隐蔽处搭了个帐篷。

Any of a breed of hornless sheep with short,thick wool,originally raised in the Cheviot Hills.

仿佛随时可能看到一队骑兵从那黝黑的矮树丛里冲杀出来。

One day he was living in a stick-house in the coppice, causing terror to the family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer. Next day he moved into a pollard willow near the lake, frightening the wildducks and the water rats.

他经常会头一天住在矮树丛的柴棚里，把本杰明·鲍瑟老先生一家搅得心神不宁，第二天又搬到湖边截去梢的柳树林里，把那些野鸭和水鼠们吓得心惊胆战。

At any moment, it seemed, a body of horsemen might be seen breaking out from the black copse

仿佛随时可能看到一队骑兵从那黝黑的矮树丛里冲杀出来。

We hack ed our way through the undergrowth.

我们披荆斩棘在矮树丛中前进。

Furthermore, these photographs show a remarkable amount of overgrowth in the bushes around that side of the house.

此外，这些相片在房子的那边附近的矮树丛中显示令人注目量的繁茂。

Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.

筏上原有的物件中有块旧帆，他们用它在矮树丛里隐蔽处搭了个帐篷。他们把东西放在帐篷里，自己却效仿海盗的做法，天气晴爽时，就睡在外面。

Sometimes I thought if digging a hole under the place where theymade their fire, and putting in five or six pounds of gunpowder,which, when they kindled their fire, would consequently take fire,and blow up all that was near it: but as, in the first place, Ishould be unwilling to waste so much powder upon them, my storebeing now within the quantity of one barrel, so neither could I besure of its going off at any certain time, when it might surprisethem; and, at best, that it would do little more than just blow thefire about their ears and fright them, but not sufficient to makethem forsake the place: so I laid it aside; and then proposed thatI would place myself in ambush in some convenient place, with mythree guns all double-loaded, and in the middle of their bloodyceremony let fly at them, when I should be sure to kill or woundperhaps two or three at every shot; and then falling in upon themwith my three pistols and my sword, I made no doubt but that, ifthere were twenty, I should kill them all.

这时，我已怒不可遏了，但还是强压心头的怒火，往回走了二十多步，来到一片矮树丛后面。靠着这片矮树丛的掩护，我一直走到那棵大树背后。那里有一片小小的高地，离那些野人大约有八十码远。我走上高地，把他们的一举一动看得清清楚楚。事情已发展到万分紧急的关头了，因为我看到有十九个野人挤在一起坐在地上，他们派出另外两个野人去宰杀那可怜的基督徒。看来，他们是要肢解他，一条胳膊一条腿地拿到火上去烤。我看到那两个野人这时已弯下腰，解着那白人脚上绑的东西。我转头对星期五说：&听我的命令行动。&星期五说他一定照办。我就说：&好吧，星期五，你看我怎么办就怎么办，不要误事。&于是，我把一支短枪和一支乌枪放在地下，星期五也跟着把他的一支鸟枪和一支短枪放在地下。我用剩下的一支短枪向那些野人瞄准，并叫星期五也用枪向他们瞄准。然后，我问星期五是否准备好了，他说：&好了。&

The seemingly empty landscape of the Kalahari Desert is full of clues to the whereabouts of potential prey for these San Bushmen hunters.

在南非的喀拉哈里沙漠的表面上，那风景如画的矮树丛完美的生长，如何寻找矮树丛人的行踪？

Methods: Five patients with parkinsonism or dystonia were assigned to general anesthesia using an modified endotracheal tube.

本实验依照人体实验之相关规定进行，五位患有帕金森氏症或肌张力异常的病人接受神经立体定位手术。

If you can benefit from this book, it is our honour.

如果您能从本书获益，这将是我们的荣幸。