复数： steppes

These include not just mining , but also inviting chinese agriculturalists to farm great swathes of steppe .

这里不单指的是采矿，还包括邀请中国农业专家在大片草原地区发展农耕。

Its 681 pages of text are at times as grueling as a forced march across the mongolian steppe .

它那681页的文本读起来就像在蒙古草原上急行军一样让人累得慌。

Rio , ivanhoe and the hordes of other mining groups marauding over the steppe may want to see this as a piece of theatre .

力拓、艾芬豪和其他在蒙古大草原上大肆劫掠的矿商们或许想要把这当成一场戏来看。

And find it they did , in the middle of the bare steppe of the north-east , at a place called daqing .

而且他们确实找到了，在东北的光秃秃的大草原中部一个叫做大庆的地方发现了石油。

The net effect was a shortening of the growing season by about one month for steppe plants and three weeks for meadow vegetation .

网效应缩短了植被的生长期，在草原缩短了近1个月，而在牧场则缩短了3周。