Or they may be algae which colour the sea green, like the carpet of weed in Qingdao that nearly brought the sailing to a halt in last year's Olympic games.

或者，他们可能是会把海洋漆成绿色的水藻。就像去年奥运会上，青岛由杂草所形成的地毯一般——那几乎使帆船比赛都无法进行。

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Based on a scaled-up version of the conventional wind turbines now common in the British landscape, these giants would be fixed to the sea bed but would stand nearly 600ft high above the waves.

把传统的风力涡轮机按比例增大是目前英国流行的景象，这些庞然大物将被固定在海床上，但是会高出海浪约600英尺。

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FOR nearly 30 years, legal control of the sea has actually stopped 200 miles from the shore, but even that is about to change.

大约30年来，对海洋的合法控制实际上限于离海岸200英里之内，但这种情况将会改变。

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The author bases her book around interviews with nearly 200 people who have a strong connection to the sea.

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The huge boulder perched just above the sea has nearly been ripped in half by the natural forces that continue to carve and shape the granite coastline.

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To be more specific, the article discusses a study published in the journal Science states that higher temperatures over the past two decades have contributed to a nearly half-inch rise in global sea levels since 1992, attributing about 30% of that increase to melting of polar ice sheets.

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