1·Restarting an industrial civilisation might be a lot harder the second time round, because we have used up most of the easily available resources, from oil to high-grade ores.
重新创建一次工业文明要困难得多，因为我们已经用尽了大部分的可用资源，不论是石油还是高级矿石，那时都已经所剩不多。
2·Its big, poor South-East Asian neighbours would also be earning billions if they had been quicker to exploit their vast, untapped reserves of ores.
其幅员辽阔，但穷困潦倒的东南亚邻国也将收入数十亿，只要他们加紧对其大量原始矿石储备的开采力度。
3·There are metal ores in the rocks nearby and ice in the shadows of the crater below.
附近的熔岩蕴含大量的金属矿石，火山口背阴的一边常年结冰。
4·It is said that the location of vast reserves of higher-grade ores of most minerals favors increasing dependence of all industrialized regions on imports from less-developed countries.
据说，更高等级的矿石越来越依赖不发达国家的工业化地区。
5·The Inca Indians used it to carry metal ores from mines in the mountains.
印加的印第安人用它把金属矿石从山中的矿里载运出来。