要想知道盆地的年龄，唯一的方法就是直接研究它的岩石吗？
The only way to know the basin's age is to study its rocks directly?
它陡峭的岩石边从一个宽阔的基地上拔地而起，直到在平坦的山顶下突然被切断。
Its sheer rock sides sweep up from a broad base until they cut off abruptly at the flat summit.
世界上大部分的饮用水——适合饮用的淡水——是由地下水提供的，它储存在岩石的孔隙和裂缝中。
Most of the world's potable water—freshwater suitable for drinking—is accounted for by groundwater, which is stored in the pores and fractures in rocks.
他们开采岩石，人工把它分解，然后把磷放进农业肥料里。
They mined the rock, artificially break it down and put the Phosphorus into agricultural fertilizers.
虽然澳大利亚的岩石艺术非凡的古迹现在已经得到承认，它图像的顺序和意义一直被广泛地讨论。
Although the remarkable antiquity of Australia's rock art is now established, the sequences and meanings of its images have been widely debated.
记住，岩浆是地下炽热的熔化了的岩石，当它到达地表时就被称为熔岩。
Remember, magma is hot molten rock that's underground, and it is called lava when it reaches the surface.
这个系外行星的质量是地球的几倍，但是它足够小，能够由岩石构成，而不是像木星是一团巨大的气体。
The exoplanet is a few times the mass of Earth, but it should still be small enough to be rocky rather than a gas giant like Jupiter.
它携带着细小的沙粒，这些沙粒会轰击裸露的岩石表面，从而把岩石磨成更多的沙子。
It carries fine particles of sand, which bombard exposed rock surfaces, thereby wearing them into yet more sand.
海洋板块是由密度更大、更重的岩石构成的，所以它开始下沉到大陆板块之下，到地幔之中。
The oceanic plate is made of denser and heavier rock, so it begins to sink down under the continental plate and into the mantle.
钱很快就装进了袋子，孩子们把它搬到十字岩石那里。
The money was soon in the bags and the boys took it up to the cross rock.
虽然地幔的热岩石是固体，但在地壳和地幔上覆岩石的巨大压力下，它像粘性液体一样流动。
Although the hot rock of the mantle is a solid, under the tremendous pressure of the crust and overlying rock of the mantle, it flows like a viscous liquid.
它的表面大部分是在过去十亿年里形成的，使得它比地球以外的任何岩石行星都更新鲜活跃。
The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than earth.
在月球停留期间，它收集了1731克岩石和土壤样本。
During the stay on the moon, it collected 1,731 grams of rock and soil samples.
在最终着陆之前，它必须远离沿途像是岩石之类的物体。
It had to move away from the objects in its way such as rocks, before finally touching down.
如果您有一个像岩石一样硬的鳄梨，把它放在一个棕色纸袋里然后再放在柜子上，2至5天后它会变得可以食用。
If you have a rock-hard avocado, put it in a brown paper bag on the counter; it'll be good to go in 2 to 5 days.
它的皮肤与另一种令人印象深刻的捕食者相似，在多岩石的海底充当伪装。
Its skin resembles that of another impressive predator and acts as camouflage on rocky seafloors.
但是，这种岩石还是相当广泛，因为它既是海床基本物质，也是常见的陆地火山喷发物。
But the rock is reasonably widespread, being both the underlying stuff of ocean floors and a common outpouring of terrestrial volcanoes.
几年前在我们的百慕大浮潜之旅时，我们遇到了一只名叫莱克斯的小猎犬，它喜欢找岩石。
On a snorkeling trip in Bermuda a few years ago, we met a terrier named Lexi who liked to fetch rocks.
他很快就发现了一道斜坡，岩石正是顺着这条斜坡滑下来，一直滚到它现在所在的位置。
He soon perceived that a slope had been formed, and the rock had slid along this until it stopped at the spot it now occupied.
一个航天器被发射到太阳系内被最少探测到的岩石质行星(水星)，它正在提供的新信息令人惊叹，其可能改写科学家对行星演化的认识。
A spacecraft sent to the least explored rocky planet in the solar system is providing surprising new information that may rewrite what scientists believe about the growth of planets.
为了再现四个世纪之前的曼哈顿，他们需要回到这个岛屿最基础的生态学特征上，回到它的岩石结构和陆表地形。
To create an image of Manhattan four centuries ago, they took the island back to its ecological fundamentals, back to the bedrock and surface topology.
这个堡垒最独特的地方时它坐落于岩石高地上。这里曾是修道院，挖有很多小房间。
The unique thing about the fortress is that it is situated on a rock plateau which used to be a monastery with numerous hollowed out cells.
在荒野地一片锋利的岩石旁，他捕获到一只，杀死了它。
He had killed one, caught it against one of the razored rocks of the Waste.
两名穿着白袍，带 着黑色长冒的牧师带领我们穿过曲折，直到面前展现出更小的神殿，它矗立在岩石院子内。
Two priests in white robes and tall, black headpiecesled us through each of the movements. We turned and faced the smaller, innershrine, which stood across a courtyard, an expanse of rock garden.
而且，因为第二个月亮(月状物)比主月小，那么它可能冷却和凝聚地更快，这意味着它的岩石会更古老。
Also, because the second moon would have been smaller than the main one, it would have cooled and solidified more quickly, meaning that its rocks would be older.
由于这种岩石的神奇，在炼金术时期，在众多混合物当中它的出现代表着希望。
Because these rocks are kind of magical, during the time of alchemy their name was invoked as an ingredient in any number of hopeful mixtures.
其主要的目的已经发现暗示着岩石冷却的时候它和水结合了，科学家们解释。
The main goal has always been to find hints that the rocks were hydrated when they cooled, said the scientist.
我们知道太阳包含大量的氦，而太阳风将氦沉积在月球岩石表面的，也许我们可以提取它。
We know the sun contains lots of helium, and as the solar wind has been depositing helium into the rocky surface of the moon, perhaps we can extract it.
它的翼膜丑陋地折叠着，紧靠着岩石，以防止滑落。
Its wing membranes are folded and ugly, and it hugs the rock to keep from slipping off.
两名穿着白袍，带着黑色长冒的牧师带领我们穿过曲折，直到面前展现出更小的神殿，它矗立在岩石院子内。
We turned and faced the smaller, innershrine, which stood across a courtyard, an expanse of rock garden.
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