1·The mighty Mississippi flows south and trails into the Gulf of Mexico through a vast, subtropical landscape of rivers, marshes, and low-lying barrier islands.
汹涌澎湃的密西西比河穿过了遍布支流、沼泽和低洼沙洲岛的广阔亚热带地区，由北向南注入了墨西哥湾。
2·The sight is as odd as its surroundings are bleak. Where a flat expanse of mud flats, salt pans and fish farms reaches the Bohai Gulf, a vast ship looms through the polluted haze.
四周阴冷，平坦广袤的滩涂、盐田与渔场一直延伸到了渤海湾，包裹着一处同样奇特的景点——一艘巨大的舰艇在受污的烟霾中若隐若现。
3·The vast majority of Bangladeshi migrant workers reside in the Gulf States, Malaysia, Singapore, the US and the UK.
绝大部分的孟加拉海外务工者分布在海湾国家，马来西亚，新加坡，美国以及英国。
4·A vast swath of the Gulf has been closed to commercial and sport fishing, a key economic lifeline for this impoverished area.
一片广阔的墨西哥湾沿岸已经停止了商业捕鱼活动。捕鱼活动是这片贫穷地区重要的生命保障。
5·Fertilizer runoff is responsible for a vast "dead zone," an oxygen-depleted region where little or no sea life can exist, in the Gulf of Mexico.
对大面积“死水区域”来说化肥残留物是罪魁祸首，在墨西哥湾，氧气耗尽的死水区域几乎没有海洋生物生存。
6·What happens, she explained, is that naturally occurring Gulf bacteria "eat up" the vast amounts of methane and other gases.
她继续解释道，那些随之而来的海湾微生物会“吃掉”大部分甲烷和各种其他气体。
7·He says the potential of the coasts is shown by the vast amounts of oil that have been extracted with little environmental impact from offshore sites in the Gulf of Mexico.
他说，在墨西哥湾沿海大量开采石油却没有造成什么环境污染的事实表明沿海采油的可行性。
8·Located along Buffalo bayou in Houston, the Arboretum lies within the Gulf Coastal Plains ecoregion, supporting vast flat prairies that abut wooded ravines associated with bayous and depressions.
沿着休斯顿水牛河的植物园位于墨西哥湾沿海平原生态区范围内，支持着抵靠着峡谷的广袤平坦的大草原，峡谷里树木繁茂并且充满了沼泽和洼地。
9·THE sight is as odd as its surroundings are bleak. Where a flat expanse of mud flats, salt pans and fish farms reaches the Bohai Gulf, a vast ship looms through the polluted haze.
这幅图片与他的背景一样古怪：平整地面有些许泥迹，盐场和渔场延伸到渤海海湾，一艘巨大的船在被污染的薄雾中若隐若现。
10·After dinner, I walked along the coast. see the same color, gray vast, silent movie fishing boat floating in the Gulf.
晚饭之后，我漫步在海岸边。极目远眺，只见海天一色，苍苍茫茫，片片渔舟漂浮在静静的海湾。