ground

Forty or fifty women were sitting cross-legged on the ground.

四五十个妇女正盘腿坐在地上。

The sport's rules require that a race walker's knees stay straight through most of the leg swing and one foot remain in contact with the ground at all times.

这项运动的规则要求竞走运动员的膝盖在大部分的腿部摆动过程中保持笔直，一只脚始终与地面保持接触。

The device plugs into the ground and then into a mobile phone.

该设备插入地面，然后再插入移动电话。

The ground had eroded.

这片土壤遭到侵蚀。

Attracting numbers of birds continually to the same spot can be harmful to them, particularly species that pick food from the ground contaminated by the droppings of other birds.

持续吸引大量的鸟类到同一地点对它们来说是有害的，尤其是那些在被其他鸟类粪便污染的土地上觅食的鸟类。

Because they're literally rooted into the ground, they are unable to leave and go elsewhere.

因为他们已经扎根于土地，他们无法离开和去其他地方。

The best fishing grounds are around the islands.

最好的渔场是在岛屿周围。

Prisoners in open prisons are locked up at night, but for the rest of the time, they are free within the prison grounds.

开放式监狱里的囚犯晚上会被关起来，但其余时间，他们在监狱内享有人身自由。

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

它们不是为了寻找食物而飞行数千英里，而是把这些垃圾场作为冬季觅食的场所。

This is the most solid ground for optimism.

这是乐观主义最有力的根据。