Spitbank Fort is not exactly a homely place, with its thick concrete walls, bulbous shape and exposed position a mile out to sea off the Hampshire coast.

斯皮班克堡其实不是住家地方，它有厚厚的混凝土墙，看起来像半个洋葱，孤零零前出入海，离汉普郡海岸有一英里。

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Before leaving, the scientists decided to test the equipment they would use to detect airborne nitryl chloride on the cruise by sampling the air in Boulder, a mile above sea level.

离开之前，科学家们决定通过抽样检测海拔一英里的博尔德市的空气，对在旅程中将会用来检测空气中硝基氯含量的设备进行检验。

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Paddle through parts of the 300-mile Scottish Sea Kayak Trail, along the sparsely populated western coast, with Wilderness Scotland.

随着荒野苏格兰旅行社，在苏格兰沿着地广人稀的西海岸，划桨通过300英里的海上小艇航线的一部分。

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That's what happens to a city more than a mile above sea level, no matter how close to the desert it might be.

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Poseidon wants to build its desalination project adjacent to this power plant, a plant that cools its generators by piping in seawater from half a mile out at sea.

NPR: California Town Votes on Huge Desalinization Plant

In the longer term, the project, named The Northern Gateway, will involve dredging a channel 14.5m deep a mile out to sea, to allow 300m long deep sea container vessels to dock at a new quayside, opening the North East up to new markets in the far east.

BBC: Work gets underway on Teesport's Northern Gateway