earthquake sounds，earth sound，brontides ；

[例句] 含含糊糊的骂天骂地声此起彼落,一路不绝. Every few seconds one of them would swear dully.

[例句] 随着尖锐的胎碾地声,他飞速驶出,一下子把其他车都甩在了后面. He took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind.

[地]valley，[地]valley floor，valley bottom ；

[例句] 有1,000多人围着约克谷地骑行了100英里。 Over 1000 riders cycled 100 miles around the Vale of York.

[例句] 霍顿向外望去，肥沃的谷地和平缓的丘陵尽收眼底。 Horton looked out over a panorama of fertile valleys and gentle hills.

inferno，hell，Abaddon，Acheron，Hades；

fallow，fallow land ；

[例句] 那个地方以温泉 [ 作为温泉休闲地 ] 闻名. The place is celebrated for its hot springs [ as a hot spring resort ].

[例句] 那农民把他的奶牛放在休闲地里. The farmer kept his cows in a fallow field.

landlord，landowner，host，laird，landholder；

（指在其它省或县内） land of one province or county enclosed by that of another，enclave，exclave ；

[例句] 纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫是阿塞拜疆境内亚美尼亚人聚居的一块飞地。 Nagorno-Karabakh is an Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan.

[例句] 直升机不能飞地, 只是它们太丑了,连地球也排斥它们. Helicopters can't fly ; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.

concave ground，depression，kar，mulde，valley ；

[例句] 凹地树木成林,但高处长满青草. The hollow was full of trees but the higher ground was covered with grass.

[例句] 卡结赫只是六个大凹地. Kazeh is only a group of six vast excavations.

provincialism ；

[例句] 地区性冲突会演变成一场大战. A regional conflict would erupt into violent warfare.

[例句] 这一地区性集团已土崩瓦解. This regional bloc has fallen apart.

hinderland，backland ；

[例句] 当面直言, 不要背地嘀咕. Say it to his face, not behind his back.

[例句] 弯腰屈背地在这儿放警戒,也不见得就那么好受. Being doubled up on guard isn't so good either.

[军] bunker，blockhouse，pillbox ；

[例句] 命令所有的指挥部转移到北面的地堡里去. Order all command posts to puII back north of the tunneI bunker.

[例句] 海水也会想方设法渗入地堡的气穴中, 将被困者淹死. Water will find way into underground pockets, drowning those trapped.

croft，toft，parterre，curtilage ；

[例句] 这古老的农场已被划分为一块块的宅地. The old farm has been split up into house lots.

[例句] 在这所宅地里,宗教居于统治地位. Religion predominated in the house.

hag，marshland，quag，slew ；

[例句] 他们已经仔细搜遍了其间绵延数英里的高沼地。 They had scoured the intervening miles of moorland.

[例句] 穿越开阔的高沼地 walking across open moorland

grazing，meadowland，meadowing，ley ；

[例句] 随着西部渐渐有人定居, 牧地的利用越来越过分. As the West settles, the range becomes more and more overgrazed.

[例句] 我们将把一块地做牧地. We will graze a field.

hoeing ；

[例句] 我愿在田里锄地. I'd like to hoe in the field.

[例句] 拔草和锄地时尽量不要踩到花坛。 Try not to walk on the flower beds when weeding or hoeing.

centrosphere ；

[例句] 按一般标准衡量, 地核是由相当致密的物质组成的. Judge by ordinary standards, the core is made of rather dense stuff.

[例句] 地球的中心是地核,地核的周围是地幔. The earth has a core and a mantle around it.

[植] Sanguisorba officinalis，great burnet，garden burnet （蔷薇科多年生草本， 根入中药） ；

[例句] CCC能有效提高和延续地榆叶片的SOD, POD酶活性. CCC could improve and continue the activities of SOD, POD.

[例句] 目的研究地榆中的三萜皂苷类成分及其 抗炎 活性. Aim To study triterpenoid saponins of Sanguisorba officinalis and their anti - inflammatory activity.

cellar，cellarage，pit，silo ；

[例句] 他接着将她肢解，将部分尸体藏在了地窖里。 He then dismembered her, hiding parts of her body in the cellar.

[例句] 当我们往下走去地窖时，四周愈见阴冷潮湿。 Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.

fatal position，deathtrap ；

[例句] 他明白稍有差池就会被置于死地。 He knew one false move would end in death.

[例句] 原发性肿瘤并不会置人于死地，致命的是身体其他部位的继发肿瘤。 It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body.

important place (usually not open to the public)，restricted area，place of strategic importance，vital centres，heftily ；

[例句] 施工重地, 闲人免进. Construction Site. No Admittance.

[例句] 库房重地, 闲人免进! Storage Room, No Admittance!

horizon，landline，skyline，apparent horizon ；

[例句] 她出神地看着小窗子外面的蓝色地平线。 She stared dreamily out of the small window at the blue horizon.

[例句] 陆地在地平线处变成了一片浅灰。 At the horizon the land mass becomes a continuous pale neutral grey.