After the forest disappeared, the soil became hard and compact, like yellow cement.

森林消失后，土壤变得很糟而且紧密，像黄水泥。

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WITH 500 barrels of hard-set cement now gumming up the Macondo well, a number of inquiries are looking back at the loss of the Deepwater Horizon rig and the subsequent spilling of 5m barrels of oil.

因为现有500桶硬固的水泥堵住了马孔多油井，一些调查回顾了“深水地平线”钻井平台的损失以及随后500万桶原油泄露的损失。

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Cement samples are hard.

水泥样已凝固。

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For the next three nights, she slept alone on a hard floor in a large, cement room.

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The extreme heat and pressures had caused the barite to form a cement like material that was hard to grind away.

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