1·Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains.
在这片平原上曾经生活着7000万头水牛。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The winds came from the north, across the plains, funnelling down the valley.
风从北方吹来，刮过平原，穿过山谷。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Great numbers of the lemmings begin a long and hard journey across the Scandinavian plains, a journey that may last weeks.
大批旅鼠开始了穿越斯堪的纳维亚平原的漫长而艰难的旅程，这段旅程可能持续数周。
4·Flooding shaped the outflow channels approximately 3 billion years ago, about the same times as the northern volcanic plains formed.
大约30亿年前，洪水形成了流出通道，大约与北部火山平原形成的时间相同。
5·I walked out and took a trolley to my apartment, and Carlo Marx's papier-mache mountains grew red as the great sun rose from the eastward plains.
我走出去，搭了一辆推车回到我的公寓，卡洛·马克思的纸型山随着太阳从东边的平原升起变成了红色。