像水的，稀薄的，淡的或液态的。
沙子像海绵一样过滤水，并减缓蒸发的进程。
The sand acts like a sponge and filters the water and slows evaporation.
谢谢你的柠檬水——像今天这种日子喝一杯再好不过了。
Thanks for the lemonade—it was a real treat on a day like this.
一个意外的惊喜在于，人们对水的需求并没有像一些人预测的那样快速增长。
Fortunately — and unexpectedly — the demand for water is not rising as rapidly as some predicted.
随着一声像茶壶煮开了水那样的微弱的叫声，水母开始下降。
With a thin scream, like a tea-kettle whistle, the medusa starts to descend.
它把水从像袋子一样的囊状物里抽出来，使囊状物的内部形成真空状态。
It pumps water out of tiny bag-like bladders, making a vacuum inside.
科学家们认为，一艘像气球一样膨胀的宇宙飞船能够携带那么多的水。
Scientists think that a spaceship blown up like a balloon will be able to carry that much water.
他们在镇上漫游，穿过弯弯曲曲的街道朝水平如镜的运河走去，那儿的水黑得像煤块一样。
Through the town they wandered, through the crooked streets, toward the glassy canal where the water lay black as coal.
好了，谢谢你的柠檬水，像今天这种日子喝一杯再好不过了。
Well, thanks for the lemonade—it was a real treat on a day like this.
对这次撞击的模拟显示地球确实在短暂的时间内融化了，这意味着像碳和水这样的轻质物质都会完全蒸发掉。
Simulations of the collision suggest that Earth really did melt for a brief time, meaning that all lightweight materials like carbon and water would have been utterly vaporized.
既然人类能为了土地、石油以及其他很多东西而斗争，如果他们不同样地为了像水这样珍贵而稀缺的资源斗争，将是很奇怪的。
SINCE men fight over land and oil and plenty of other things, it would be odd if they did not also fight over a commodity as precious and scarce as water.
这声响声音似乎弥漫了整个屋子。她开始动了，她像水，像一股冰冷湍急的山间溪水一样活动。
The sound seemed to fill the house, and then she was moving, moving like water, like the cold rushing of a mountain stream.
想象一下你正呆在一艘远洋轮船上，这时一道十层楼高的水墙像一列不可阻挡的货运列车冲向你。
Imagine you're on an ocean liner when a wall of water ten stories tall RACES toward you like an unstoppable freight train.
水龙头里的发光二极管能够随着水龙头的拧开和关紧而开启或关闭，这样流到水槽或面盆里的水就会像彩色的小瀑布一般。
There is an LED that gets activated when the tap is turned on and deactivated when turned off, this results in a stream of coloured waterfall in your sink or basin.
在学校，你可能学过像木头，玻璃以及水这样的物质是由原子聚集而成的，从而形成分子。
In school, you probably learned that materials like wood, glass, and water are made of atoms that stick together to make molecules.
它将经过液氮冷冻干燥后的尸体进行振动，尸体便溶解为超微粒，然后近一步蒸发掉水并去除像汞之类的物质。
The body is freeze-dried in liquid nitrogen, then vibrated so that it dissolves into a fine powder. Further processes evaporate water and remove things like mercury.
大众市场的啤酒尝起来像肥皂水。或者说，许多散装啤酒商一直坚持。因此，不足为奇的是，他们现在正在想像肥皂粉一样销售。
MASS-MARKET beers taste like soapy water. Or so many real-ale snobs insist. So it is hardly surprising that they are now being marketed like soap powder.
不管是在哪儿发现奇迹，我们都会联想到神奇的水：露水下的蜘蛛网像一条莱茵石项链、雨色的苍鹰从小溪边冲天而起。
And wherever we find them, they reflect the magic of water: a spider web drooping with dew like a rhinestone necklace. A rain-colored heron rising from the creek bank.
报告进一步推测在外星球像氨或者甲醛这样的液体可以替代水作为生物溶剂。
The report further speculated that liquids such as ammonia or formaldehyde could also work in place of water as biosolvents on alien moons and planets.
环境工作小组建议瓶装水公司像自来水供应商一样，提供关于其水源和水处理更为详细的信息。
The environmental group recommends that bottling companies provide detailed information about the source and treatment of their water, just as providers of tap water do.
眼前是向四周扩散开去一望无垠的沙滩。沙滩上仿佛四处可见潺潺的流水，事实上，有时像水一样闪闪发亮的，也只是沙子。
A vast expanse of sand stretches away out of sight on every side, with here and there a streak, as of water, running across, though sometimes what gleams like water is only sand.
当鳗鱼在像水一样的导电溶液中，这种带电的离子便会产生电流。
This movement of charged ions, when the eel is in a conductive solution like water, creates an electric current.
像食物、空气和水一样，能源在人类的生活中必不可少。
Like food, air, and water, energy is essential to human existence.
城市建立在金钱上的，并且像新鲜空气、清洁水和一个安全的休息处是很难在城市里获得的。
Cities are built on money, and necessities like fresh air, clean water and a safe place to sleep are difficult to come by in cities.
当人们解决像水这样的重大问题时，他们通常会注重于像基础设施这样的大事项，而很少会重视很有效的小创意。
Very often when you tackle big problems like water, you look at big issues like infrastructure. But you don't very often see the small ideas which are very efficient.
这使得来自地中海的密度较大的水像河流一样在海床上流淌，冲刷蚀刻出大概115英尺深0.6英里宽的水道和河岸。
This causes the dense water from the Mediterranean to flow like a river along the sea bed, carving a channel with Banks around 115 feet deep and 0.6 of a mile wide.
除非是热得像水开了一样的天气，否则我躲避喝酒。当它让我感到恐惧时，我会饿。
I avoid beer unless it's a boiling hot day and I am hungry as it makes me feel bloated and horrible.
最后药算是煎好了。它的样子像非常清亮的水。
When at last the magic draught was ready, it looked like the clearest water.
现代阔口蛇，像蟒蛇和水蟒，能吃大的猎物是因为它们的颌关节恰位于头骨的后面，能使蛇的嘴张得非常宽。
Modern large-mouthed snakes, such as boas and anacondas, can eat large prey because their jaw joints are positioned well behind their skulls, allowing the snakes to open their mouths very wide.
温度计里有三个红色的气泡，角落上的水盆龙头放出的水像眼泪一样滴滴答答。我想给手机充一下电，电源插口先是吱吱作响，随后即刻停了电。
The thermometer had three red bubbles, the tap in the corner sink dribbled tearfully, and, when I tried to recharge my phone, the socket just sizzled and promptly cut out.
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