9.Some ranchers with an instinct for water, like that of the miner for metal, sank wells into the dry sand and were rewarded with gushers that " soused the thirsty desert and turned its good-for-nothing sand into good-for-anything loam."
一些对水有本能的牧场主, 就像金属矿工对水的本能一样,在干涸的沙地上打井, 并得到井喷作为奖励, 这些井“浸湿了干涸的沙漠, 把一无
处的沙子变成了万能的肥土。机翻