The uncomfortable and inconvenient truth is that the physical resources of the biosphere are finite.

生物圈内的物质资源是有限的。

Never before has a single species determined the future of the entire biosphere.

以前从来没有一个物种能够决定整个生物圈的未来。

Could humanity stop its destructive ways and restore balance to its relationship to its biosphere?

人类真的能停止破坏性的行为，重塑与生物圈的平衡关系？

It was generalized from the article that water is important in the development of biosphere.

文章归纳出水生物圈的发展中起着重要作用的观点。

Mosquito City's buzzing, whining biospheres mimic local field conditions, even down to banana plants and goats.

蚊子城市抱怨“生物圈”模拟地野外条件的嗡嗡声甚至穿透至香蕉树和山羊群。

Our biosphere is being sacrificed so that rich people in countries like mine, can live in luxury.

我们的生物圈正被牺牲，因此包括我国内诸国的富人们，能够过上奢侈的生活。

The biosphere's director has only ten staffers to monitor a hundred and thirty-eight thousand acres of land.

生物圈的主管只有十名工作人员，来监督十三万八千英亩的土地。

We need to have the biosphere properly explored so that we can understand and competently manage it.

我们需要对生物圈正确地进行探测，唯有如此，我们才能把握其秘密，并更好的加以保。

In 1997, her grassroots organization helped the region achieve biosphere reserve status protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of land.

1997年，她的生态小组帮助该地区建立了生物圈保区，保了近40万公顷土地。

The broiler chicken, Bennett says, is now a symbol of how the biosphere is unrecognizable from its pre-human state.

贝内特说，这只肉用鸡现是生物圈从其原始人类状态无法识别的一个象征。

But crucially, I will look for all the molecules that can together paint a holistic picture of a biosphere.

此外至关重要的是，我会继续寻找所有可以一起描绘出生物圈整体风貌的分子。

He added that Earth's biosphere depends heavily on plants for food and oxygen.

他补充说，地球生物圈严重依赖植物来获取食物和氧气。

Humans, now the dominant species, will either lead the biosphere towards a flourishing future or to catastrophe.

人类——现处于主导地位的物种，要么引领生物圈走向繁荣的未来，要么走向灾难。

I was imagining a distant planet, a oxygen-poor tropical paradise with a phosphine-rich biosphere that we might one day be able to detect.

我想象着某个远方的星球，它是氧气稀薄的热带天堂，有着富含磷化氢的生物圈有朝一日会被发现。

But most of the biosphere's usable nitrogen is the result of bacteria employing an enzyme called nitrogenase to pull nitrogen out of the air.

但生物圈中的大部分可用氮都是细菌利用一种名为固氮酶的酶氮气从空气中分离出来的。

Crucially, the people of that time had to arrange to pay themselves to do the things necessary to heal the biosphere.

关键的是，那时候的人还需要花费资金去做修复生物圈的必要工作。

The finding indicates that the biosphere more than three billion years ago was much more complex than previously appreciated, and perhaps had already colonized land.

该研究表明30多亿年前的生物圈比我们目前推测的要复杂得多，而且也许已延伸到了陆地。

Biosphere is a perfect example of a greenhouse because it's a big building with glass panes that let the Sun in and it's really hot in here.

生物圈2号是个完美的温室，因为这个巨型建筑完全由玻璃构成让阳光完全透过这里，非常温暖。

With over 21 billion broiler chickens in existence, human production of the species has fundamentally reconfigured Earth's biosphere, researchers say.

研究人员称，人类生产的210亿只肉鸡从根本上改变了地球生物圈的结构。

There may be a temptation to treat the biosphere holistically and the species that compose it as a great flux of entities hardly worth distinguishing one from the other.

也许有些人会走捷径，用一种整体的视角来看待整个生物圈, 将其中的物种看成是个体的流动, 无须区分出它们之间的细微差别。