It caused devastation by burrowing and by devouring the herbage which might have maintained millions of sheep and cattle.

它们地下打洞，吃掉本可以饲养数百万头牛羊牧草，给澳洲大陆造成了毁灭性破坏。

The pavement of the court-yard showed the black stains produced in time by lichens, herbage, and the absence of all movement or friction.

院子道上有地衣、草本植物及时留下黑色污渍，没有任何运动或摩擦。

To a walker practised in such places a difference between impact on maiden herbage, and on the crippled stalks of a slight footway, is perceptible through the thickest boot or shoe.

对于这种地方走来说，即使穿多厚靴子或鞋子，他们也能区分出脚下究未经践踏草地还坚硬沙砾小道。

Where the footpath begins to go steeply and abruptly up the Alps, the heath, with its short grass and pungent herbage, at once sends out its soft perfume to meet the wayfarer.

道开始陡峭而陡峭地攀登阿尔卑斯山地方， 石南丛生矮草和刺鼻草本植物立即散发出柔和香气迎接。

Nearer to the town, the air had a faint taste and smell of smoke; perhaps, after all, more a loss of the fragrance of grass and herbage than any positive taste or smell.

靠近城镇，空气中有淡淡烟味和烟味； 也许，毕，比任何积极味道或气味更多草和草本植物香味损失。

At the foot they found the Narragansetts browsing the herbage of the bushes, and having mounted, they followed the movements of a guide, who, in the most deadly straits, had so often proved himself their friend.

山脚下，他们发现纳拉干西特正草丛中吃草， 他们骑上马， 跟随向导动， 向导最致命海峡中， 经常证明自己他们朋友。

As he slowly slid inch by inch upon these, Knight made a last desperate dash at the lowest tuft of vegetation—the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness.

当他慢慢地一英寸一英寸地滑过这些时， 奈特最后一次绝望地冲向最低一丛植被——岩石完全裸露之前， 最后一丛饥饿牧草。

The common goose does not sift the water, but uses its beak exclusively for tearing or cutting herbage, for which purpose it is so well fitted that it can crop grass closer than almost any other animal.

普通鹅不会筛水， 而用它喙专门撕扯或割草，为此，它嘴非常合适， 几乎比任何其他动物都能更近距离地割草。

For it is in the most polished society that noisome reptiles and venomous serpents lurk under the rank herbage; and there is voluptuousness pampered by the still sultry air, which relaxes every good disposition before it ripens into virtue.

因为最优雅社会中，有毒爬动物和毒蛇潜伏草本植物下；仍然闷热空气使放纵，成熟为美德之前放松了所有良好性格。