"Our Navy can carry twice as many aircraft at sea as all the rest of the world combined," outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pointed out last year.

“我们海军在海上可搭载飞机的总数量，是世界其他海军搭载飞机数量总和的两倍。”美国国防部长罗伯特·盖茨去年就曾指出过。

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When inactive, the gates will lay flat on the seafloor; when water levels rise, they will be pumped full of air and rise above the surface to block sea water.

平时，闸门平铺在水底；在海水上涨时，闸门被注满空气，浮到水面阻隔海水。

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Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea.

他的心门砉然地开了，他的喜乐在海面飞翔。

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You can, of course, fight an unpredictable tide by building sea walls, flood gates and breakwaters.

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Although he conveyed in a speech in San Francisco last month an appreciation of the Corp and its unique "from the sea" warfighting capability, the Gates review seems intended to challenge the need for amphibious assault capability.

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