麻烦各位大神帮我翻译下句子咯。。

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TPO14 阅读第二篇。。
Thelikely explanation is that an area of underground freshwater underlies theYucatan Peninsula, but surface elevation increases from north to south, so thatas one moves south the land surface lies increasingly higher above the watertable.


红色部分理解不了哎。

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額 还有一句  However, this is more than made up for by the fast speed at which food passes through their guts.

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1# xhackj

我觉得就是说一个人往北走就会发现surface越来越比watertable高

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2# xhackj

我觉得是：但是，food通过gut的速度特别快不仅仅是一种补偿

不知道对不对....

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第二句的more than翻译成不仅仅  这样好像是好理解了点