Gigantic palm trees also sprouted along the coast-artificial islands made from sea-floor sand protected by rock breakwaters.

沿着海岸线也有很多高大的棕榈树，人工海岛由海底的海沙填成，并有防波堤保护。

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Even humpback whales prefer to use the right side of their jaws to scrape sand eels from the ocean floor.

即使是座头鲸也喜欢用它们的右颚从海底刮沙鳗鱼。

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The scientists placed black charcoal the size of sand grains on the sea floor to see whether the fish would move it; they scattered it everywhere.

科学家们把沙粒大小的木炭放在海床上，看赤点石斑鱼能否搬动他们；结果木炭被弄得到处都是。

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So, on mornings like this one, Avie has to click a button on the floor that drops sand on the tracks as the car goes along.

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Bache Cellar is a huge, funky restaurant with barely a wooden ceiling and sand for a floor.

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At one point we scrambled out of the cars to see scattered fields of fossilized shellfish and sand dollars that had nestled on a prehistoric ocean floor.

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