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Spiny Oasis of the Desert

机译:沙漠的刺绿洲

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A clay pot containing what seems to be nothing but pebbles rests on a counter near the open-air entrance to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The nondescript pot is worth a close look, for within it are lessons about the tenacity of life and the emergence of beauty in unexpected places. Scattered among the reddish-brown pebbles are several tiny green nubs, none more than a fraction of an inch high. These, a museum volunteer says, are five-year-old saguaro cacti. When mature—a long, dry century from now—they could stand up to 50 feet tall, and each will hold as much as eight tons of water, liquid life sequestered over decades in a region that sometimes sees only two inches of rainfall annually.
机译:亚利桑那州-索诺拉沙漠博物馆露天入口附近的柜台上放着一个装有卵石的陶罐。这个不起眼的锅值得一看,因为里面有关于生命坚韧和在意想不到的地方出现美丽的课程。在红褐色的鹅卵石中散布着几个微小的绿色小块,高度不超过一英寸的几分之一。一位博物馆志愿者说,这些是五岁的仙人掌仙人掌。当成熟时(从现在开始漫长而干燥的世纪),它们可能高达50英尺高,每个都将容纳多达8吨的水,几十年来,在一个有时每年只有两英寸的降雨量的地区,人们的液体生活被quest住了。

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