A child watching a glass of water being filled up, or building blocks piled up, will learn that increasing height means greater quantity, for example.

例如当看到一杯水被倒满或建筑物被筑起时，儿童会学到高度增加意味着更多的质量。

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An attempt had been made to dig a tank in the garden, but the subsoil water proving too low, it had been abandoned, unfinished, with the excavated earth left piled up into a hillock.

我们曾尝试在花园里挖一个水池，但因地下水太过浅，只好放弃，没能完工，挖出来的土堆成了一个小山包。

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However, the crust is not a homogeneous shell in which lower places are filled with water to make oceans and high places piled up with rocks to make continents.

但地壳并不是一个均匀的壳，其低处充满了水并构成海洋，高处堆积着岩石构成大陆。

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In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.

ECONOMIST: Australia's water war