Or take on that bully at the beach who kicks sand in your face?

还是想教训那个在沙滩上把沙子踢到你脸上的混蛋？

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In one instance, scientists found that hundreds of cubic yards of sand had avalanched down the face of a dune.

在一个实例中，科学家们发现大量立方码的沙粒从沙丘的表面崩落。

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LAST summer, on the Atlantic coast of France, Charlemagne was introduced to a fine beach game: building big sand-walls near the shoreline in the face of a rising tide.

去年夏天，法国大西洋沿岸，一种有趣的沙滩游戏加入了查理曼大帝元素：涨潮时在海岸线上建一堵沙墙。

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Nothing is sacred, and dueling with Anonymous is like trying to have a fistfight where your opponent kicks you in the groin, throws sand in your face and stabs you with a razor blade.

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As in the old Charles Atlas ads, the 97-pound weakling eventually gets tired of having sand kicked in his face, heads off to the gym and becomes just as muscled as the bully.

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And while it used to require a certain set of characteristics to thrive as a bully, the internet makes it simple for almost anyone to graduate from cowering weakling to kicking virtual sand in the face of friends and strangers in no time.

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