It has happened before. The towns that are now declining were once growing quickly, denuding other settlements, often in the countryside.

这曾经也发生过。现在正在逐渐没落的这些镇子曾经也增长非常快。条件除了在乡下别的没有什么同。

We do not, under any circumstances, want to denude New York of its cultural treasures.

在任何情况下，我们都夺纽约的文化宝藏。

And so, under their chain saws, vast seas of forests turned into barren ridges and denuded hills.

于是，在他们的电锯下，茫茫林海变成了荒岭荒山。

But this Peachtree Street she was looking upon was so denuded of landmarks it was as unfamiliar as if she had never seen it before.

可是她现在看到的这条桃树街连一个旧的标志也没有了，它显得如此陌生，仿佛她从没见过似的。

He stammered, choked, with arms outstretched toward the empty places, toward the denuded walls where naught remained but the useless nails and cords.

他结结巴巴， 哽咽着，双臂伸向空旷的， 伸向光秃秃的墙壁， 那里只剩下无用的钉子和绳索。

But both are greatly obscured by the forests and underbrush growing upon them, and by the denuding action of rains and melting snows, etc.

但是两者都被森林和上面生长的灌木丛，以及雨水和融雪等的蚀作用大大遮蔽了。

Directly beneath the window a tall, denuded poplar threw its shadow on the gravel of the landing-place, distinctly showing all the ramifications of its bare branches.

就在窗户正下，一棵高大、光秃秃的白杨树将影子投射在着陆点的砾石上，显示出它光秃秃的树枝的所有分支。

It involves letting trees return to places that have been denuded, allowing parts of the seabed to recover from trawling and dredging, permitting rivers to flow freely again.

它包括让树木回到被砍伐的，让部分海床从拖网和疏浚中恢复过来，让河流再次畅通无阻。

To Meriem, however, it presented but a place denuded of large trees which she must cross quickly to regain the jungle upon the opposite side before Malbihn should have landed.

然而，对于 Meriem 来说，它只是一个没有大树的，她必须在 Malbihn 登陆之前迅速穿过它以重新获得对面的丛林。

For the rest, he was a young gentleman in a gray suit (when not denuded for battle), with his elbows, knees, wrists, and heels considerably in advance of the rest of him as to development.

其余的，他是一个年轻的绅士，穿着灰色西装（当没有否认战斗），他的肘部，膝盖，手腕和高跟鞋大大提前于他的其他人的发展。

I felt a strong desire to snatch down the orchid and fling it out of the window, to denude the niche of its picture, to lay bare and naked the unashamed spirit of destruction that raged within me.

我有一种强烈的欲望，把兰花摘下来扔出窗外，去它的壁龛，赤裸裸暴露我内心肆虐的肆无忌惮的毁灭精神。

We can best gain some idea of past time by knowing the agencies at work; and learning how deeply the surface of the land has been denuded, and how much sediment has been deposited.

通过了解工作中的机构， 我们可以最好了解过去的时间；并了解土表面被蚀的深度， 以及沉积了多少沉积物。

Many cases could be given of the lower beds of a formation having been upraised, denuded, submerged, and then re-covered by the upper beds of the same formation—facts, showing what wide, yet easily overlooked, intervals have occurred in its accumulation.

可以举出一个层的下部层被抬升、 蚀、淹没， 然后被同一层的上部层重新覆盖的许多案例— — 事实表明，在其积累过程中发生了多么宽阔但容易被忽视的间隔.