A stark example is the Bengal famine of 1943, during the last days of the British rule in India.
一个鲜明的例子是1943年,英国统治印度的最后一段时期,孟加拉国所爆发的大范围饑荒。
It may only be a matter of time before the toxic element also permeates deep aquifers in other Asian countries that follow the same practice, such as those around the Bengal Basin.
其他亚洲国家,例如孟加拉盆地附近的国家,以同样的方式使这种有毒物质渗透进深层含水层是迟早的事。
In India, Bangla is mainly spoken across the states of West Bengal and Tripura.
在印度,孟加拉语主要的使用范围横跨西孟加拉和特利普拉两省。
To avoid contamination, Wells in the Bengal Basin can be drilled into deep layers that were oxidized during the last ice age, in which the water is free of arsenic, Berg says.
为了防止被污染,孟加拉盆地的水井鉆入了在上一个冰河时期被氧化的深层地层中,这一层的水是不含砷的,伯格说。
How all this will shake out at the polls will become clearer next month, when four states-west Bengal and Assam in the east, Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south-hold assembly elections.
这一切将如何左右民意下个月就会清楚明了,届时有四个邦(西孟加拉邦、东部的阿萨姆邦、南部的泰米尔纳德邦和喀拉拉邦)举行议会选举。
For example, few in West Bengal can spell out what the energetic Ms Banerjee stands for.
例如,在西孟加拉邦很少有人能清楚地说明充满活力的班纳吉代表着什么。
West Bengal is a crowded state, which went further than most to return land to the tiller.
西孟加拉邦人口众多,在将土地分给农民经营这方面它比其它州更进一步。
For years, they have largely failed to capture the imagination and the support of the masses beyond their regional strongholds of West Bengal and the state of Kerala.
多年以来,他们始终不能超越其在西孟加拉和喀拉拉邦的地区据点,而夺取更多民众的期望和支持。
Lulu, a blind Bengal tiger, was rescued from a circus.
露露是一只失明的孟加拉虎,从马戏团被解救出来。
The implications of the finding could be serious for countries around the Bengal Basin in South Asia.
这个发现对于孟加拉盆地周围的南亚国家的意义非常重大。
Yet distributing land into smaller parcels has brought new challenges, as families have kept growing while immigrants have flowed into West Bengal from poorer states, as well as bordering Bangladesh.
然而,将土地分成小块却带来了新的挑战。当从贫困邦涌入西孟加拉的移民持续增加时,包括从孟加拉国边境线过来的贫民,这都使得当地人口数量持续上升。
One account suggests that the giraffe was taken from the ruler of Bengal — who himself had received it as a gift from the Sultan — and that it inspired Zheng to visit Kenya a few years later.
其中一种说法提示长颈鹿是有接受了苏丹礼物的孟加拉统治者转送给郑和的,这让郑和产生了数年后访问肯尼亚的想法。
It was then the fashion in Bengal to assign each man of letters a place in comparison with a supposed compeer in the West.
在当时的孟加拉,人们时兴给每个文人指定一个与西方某作家相类似的地位。
Away from the Bengal Academy and off to the Himalayas!
离开孟加拉中学到喜马拉雅山去!
Thousands of people have relatives on both sides of the border, but they have not been able to meet easily since 1947 when Bengal was divided between India and Pakistan.
数千计的人们在边境的两侧都有亲人,但从1947年,孟加拉被印度与巴斯·基坦分裂之后,他们便难以相见。