An hour later, the son came back with the empty basket and told his father it was impossible to hold water with the basket.
一个小时后，儿子带着空篮子回来了，告诉父亲用篮子装水是不可能的。
Then it snows because as the air rises, it cools off and loses its capacity to hold water vapor.
然后就会下雪，因为当空气上升时，它就会冷却并失去保持水蒸气的能力。
Font is used to hold water for baptism.
洗礼盘用来装洗礼用的圣水。
The method can quickly judge the soil's ability to hold water and take –in nutrients.
这种方法能快速判断出土壤蓄水和吸收养分的能力。
Take viatic network immediately, announced formally to hold water in Beijing in November 2011.
立马走旅行网，2011年11月在北京正式宣布成立。
In front of the hall, there are a couple of gilded bronze vats, which were used to hold water in case of fire.
在大殿前，有一对镀金的青铜大缸，它是用来装水的以防火灾。
Another common expression, "to hold water," is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about.
另一个常见的表达是to hold water(站得住脚；合情合理)，事关一个想法、观点或论点有力与否。
At first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the "solid" ground underfoot to hold all this water.
乍一想，似乎难以置信的是，在脚下的“坚实”地面上居然有足够的空间来容纳这么多的水。
Less vegetation means the soil can't hold water as well; the soil loses its ability to retain water when it does rain.
更少的植被意味着土壤也无法保持水分；下雨时土壤就失去了保持水分的能力。
He beat the water with his paws to hold himself up, but the harder he tried, the deeper he sank.
他用爪子拍打水面，想让自己浮起来，可是越用力，沉下去得越深。
Gray says the ocean's thermal heat capacity is high and sea-surface temperatures are increasing; what's more, a La Nina effect, bringing cold water to the eastern equatorial Pacific, has taken hold.
格雷表示，目前海洋的热容量很高，海面温度也在不断上升；而且更为重要的是，在拉尼娜现象的作用之下，冰冷的海水被带到东太平洋赤道处。
The typical solution is for a city to build larger pipes and a giant underground tank to hold the excess water until sewers can handle the flow.
典型的解决方法是建造更大直径的排水管和巨大的地下水箱来容纳过量的来水，直至下水管网能够自行处理水流。
We are getting reports and calls that are breaking my heart from people saying, 'I have been in my attic, I cannot take it any more, the water is up to my neck, I don't think I can hold out'.
我们接到报告和电话说：‘我在我家的阁楼上，我受不了了，水已经到我的脖子了，我坚持不住了。’我真是感到心痛。
What's more, a La Nina effect, bringing cold water to the eastern equatorial Pacific, has taken hold.
而且更为重要的是，在拉尼娜现象的作用之下，冰冷的海水被带到东太平洋赤道处。
The strength of the rainfall within it, though, is likely to rise, because the air will be warmer, and warmer air can hold more water.
然而，由于空气越来越温暖，温暖的空气能够保持更多的水分，故而季风带来的降雨的力度会加大。
And just think, when you swim in the pond, you will be able to hold your eyes above the water. Don't you see?
想想看，当你在池塘游泳时，还可以将眼睛放在水面上，那样你就什么都能看见不是吗，这样还更好一些！
But now there has spread a crack in your hull and your hold is heavy. Now is the time for you to end your voyage, to be rocked into sleep by the lapping of the water by the beach.
可是这一次，你的船身上已经展开了一道裂缝，你的货舱装载的货物又很沉重，现在是你结束航行的时候了，让轻轻拍岸的波浪摇你入睡吧。
Scientists are working to unravel the mystery of Mars's climate-evidence of water on the red planet will hold clues about life on Mars, as well as the potential for life elsewhere in the universe.
科学家正在努力寻找火星气候的秘密——在这个红色的星球上发现有水存在的证据，它将作为在火星上寻找生命的线索，也可以说明在宇宙的别处也有可能存在生命。
"There is no unified flat Earth model, " Shenton suggests, "but the most commonly accepted one is that it's more or less a disc, with a ring of something to hold in the water.
“尽管平坦地球论还没有公认的模型，”珊顿说，”但为多数人接受的观点认为，地球形状是个圆盘，并且在水中托着一圈某种东西。
But the lakes themselves remain; and while much of America is regularly afflicted by drought, they hold enough water to submerge the entire country.
但是湖泊却还在这里。尽管美国大部分地区都定期遭受干旱之苦，五大湖的蓄水量却足以将整个国家淹没。
When air is cooled to a point at which the air's capacity to hold more water vapor is zero, saturation is reached.
当空气进一步冷却到容纳更多水汽的能力为零(的那一点)时，饱和状态就达到了。
For guys with bad cowlicks, I suggest asking your barber or stylist to cut the hair dry so there's no water weight on the hair that will unnaturally hold the cowlick down.
对于那些发旋情况严重的人们，建议让理发师或发型师把他们的干枯头发减短，这样的话，头发就会垂下了使发旋处不翘。
There is an underwater obstacle section. Participants have to hold their breath and make their way through the muddy, freezing water.
这里进行的是水下障碍物项目，挑战者必须屏住呼吸穿越冰冷的泥潭。
There is an underwater obstacle section. Participants have to hold their breath and make their way through the muddy, freezing water.
这里进行的是水下障碍物项目，挑战者必须屏住呼吸穿越冰冷的泥潭。
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