Terra Preta soils turn up in large patches all over the Amazon, where they are highly prized by farmers.(TerraPreta土壤在整個亞馬遜地區(qū)大面積出現(xiàn)，農(nóng)民們對其高度重視。)

"If you would have asked an anthropologist or archaeologist how many people lived in these Amazon uplands, they'd say almost zero," he said.(他說：“如果你去問一個人類學(xué)家或者考古學(xué)家，多少人曾居住在這些亞馬遜高地，他們會說幾乎為零。”)

Best Buy, for instance, has been bearing the lion's share of e-waste volume since two of its largest competitors, Amazon and Walmart, do not have their own recycling programs.(以百思買為例，它一直承擔(dān)著電子垃圾的最大份額，因?yàn)槠鋬蓚€最大的競爭對手亞馬遜和沃爾瑪沒有它們自己的回收計(jì)劃。)

I was in the middle of the Amazon with my wife, who was there as a medical researcher.(我和我的妻子在亞馬遜河中部，她是一名醫(yī)學(xué)研究員。)

In the Amazon, my colleagues and I found the mortality rate for the biggest trees had tripled in small patches of rainforest surrounded by pasture land.(在亞馬遜河流域，我和我的同事們發(fā)現(xiàn)，在被牧場包圍的一小片雨林中，最大的樹木的死亡率增加了兩倍。)

The Amazon is so wide at some points that from its center neither shore can be seen.(亞馬遜河在某些地方太寬了，以至于從河的中心看不見河岸。)

Bruno Glaser, a soil scientist of the University of Bayreuth, has studied unexpected patches of fertile soils in the central Amazon.(拜羅伊特大學(xué)的土壤科學(xué)家布魯諾·格拉澤研究了亞馬遜中部幾塊出人意料的肥沃土壤。)

You can go to Amazon or you can go to our bookstore.(你可以上亞馬遜或者到我們的書店。)

This book is available both at Labyrinth Books and Amazon.(在迷宮書店和亞馬遜網(wǎng)站上都可以買到這本書。)

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy are astonishing—Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.(數(shù)字經(jīng)濟(jì)巨頭們的力量和雄心令人震驚——亞馬遜剛剛宣布以13美元的價格收購高檔連鎖超市WholeFoods。)