1·About 400 million years ago, when the present-day continents of North America and Europe were joined, the Caledonian mountain chain was the same size as the modern Himalayas.
现在的北美大陆和欧洲大陆大约在40亿年前是连接在一起的，在那时，加勒多尼亚山脉与现代的喜马拉雅山脉一样雄伟。
2·Other projects have shown how the Indian continent is propping up the entire Himalayan mountain chain.
还有其他项目表明了印度大陆如何支撑着整个喜马拉雅山脉。
3·The Italian has a mountain chain running through him North-South and he likes good cooking, often using olive oil.
意大利有一个贯穿南北的山脉，他喜欢精美的食物，常常使用橄榄油。
4·The western Liaoning Province is a low mountain and hills area and is the eastern extension of the famous Yanshan mountain chain.
辽宁省西部属于低山丘陵区，为著名的燕山山脉之东段。
5·The plate collision helped close the western part of the ancient Tethys Sea and lifted up the massive European mountain chain that persists today.
同时，这次板块碰撞封闭了特提斯海(即古地中海)的西部，并且形成了仍保存至今的欧洲大部分山脉。
6·The viaduct is more than just a bridge. Like a mountain chain erected by human hand it appears in the town with a scale derived from the landscape and topography.
高架桥不仅仅是一座桥，它更像是一座人类在城镇中建起的山脉，其自身的规模根据城市景观和地形而定。
7·The project is located in the Cauca valley, between the Occidental and Central mountain chain, where a superb construction material is abundant and growth is natural: bamboo.
该项目位于考卡山谷的西方和中央山脉之间，此区域盛产一种高质量的、自然生长的建筑材料：竹子。
8·Flying into an anger at this unjustified act of rebellion, Zeus let the other gods chain Prometheus to a rock on Mountain Caucasus, where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver which ever grew again.
宙斯对他这种肆无忌惮的违抗行为大发雷霆。他令其他的山神把普罗米修斯用锁链缚在高加索山脉的一块岩石上。一只饥饿的老鹰天天来啄食他的肝脏，而他的肝脏又总是重新长出来。
9·Adapted for cool, cloudy conditions, their populations become isolated on particular peaks, which is why each mountain or chain of mountains tends to spawn scores of unique local species.
为了适应凉爽多云的环境，山地生物会各自居住在某一山头，彼此隔绝，所以每座山或是每一群山都会孕育许多与众不同的本地物种。
10·I also have a couple of worn toothbrushes I've kept to clean the chain of my mountain-bike.
我还保留着一些用旧的牙刷来清洁我的山地车链。