A sump pump can drain a low-lying area and divert water to another location where it can drain properly.
阿水坑泵可以排水沟的低洼地区，调水到另一个位置，它可以排水正常。
Those include the need to make room for a population that has doubled and a loss of low-lying areas along the San Francisco Bay due to rising sea levels.
这其中包括为沿旧金山湾的人们提供更多空间，由于海平面不断上升，这里的人口已增加一倍，低洼地区也在不断减少。
More than 300, 000 people have been allowed back home in New York after they were ordered to evacuate the city's low-lying areas in the path of a powerful storm.
在纽约强力飓风经过的低洼地区被强制疏散的300,000名居民现在已经获准回家。
For those with sea legs, SeaStorm also includes a deeper analysis of wave heights, high wind, wind/wave forecasts, and swell direction (good for low-lying areas).
如果你有sealegs(Android机子上的附加装置)，海洋风暴还包括对海浪高度、疾风、风/浪预测和海浪涌动方向（特别是低洼地方）的更深入分析。
After the 2005 hurricane that wrecked much of New Orleans, there were calls for low-lying areas not to be rebuilt, but instead left as a natural buffer against floods.
在2005年飓风重创新奥尔良市之后，就有人呼吁放弃重建低洼区域，而是将其作为洪水的天然缓冲带。
They look like low-lying, white or grey buttes, long, narrow hills with flat tops, barely a meter high.
它们看起来就像低洼的白色或灰色的孤山，又长又窄，山顶平坦，只有一米高的山。
Only a thin layer of dust travels over land outside of the eastern edge of the desert, indicating that the dust may be lying low over the arid land, rather than rising high in the atmosphere.
沙漠东部以外的土地上仅仅只覆盖了薄薄的一层，这也就表明这些尘埃或许倾向于落在地势低而干燥的地方，而不是高高的升到大气中。
Nuclear planners clearly did not appreciate how bad things could get on a low-lying coast in a seismic zone; and poor planning is part of the problem.
核能规划者们显然未能认识到在震区地势低洼的海岸边，情况能够变得多糟；而拙劣的设计正是问题的一部分。
In case rising seawater swamps low-lying parts of the world, architect Vincent Callebaut has dreamt up Lilypad, a floating island for climate refugees.
为防止上涨的海水淹没世界低洼地区，建筑师文森特·卡勒波特设计了丽丽派德——供气候难民使用的漂浮岛。
The earthquake took there a tsunami that could inundate low-lying lands as far away as Japan.
地震在这些地带引发了一次海啸，远至日本的一些低地都被海水淹没。
Kench says that while the 27 islands in his study are just a small portion of the thousands of low-lying Pacific islands, it shows that they are naturally resilient to rising sea levels.
肯奇认为虽然他所研究的这27个岛屿仅占太平洋几千个低地势岛屿中的很小一部分，但这显示了它们对海平面上升的天然抵抗力。
The researchers say that such a device could be used to protect isolated spots in the ocean-like drilling platforms or low-lying islands-or coastal regions vulnerable to tsunamis.
研究者表示，这样一个装置可被用来保护大洋中的孤岛，比如石油钻井平台，或是低洼岛屿，或者容易遭受海啸袭击的地区。
The Maldives, which wants to be carbon-neutral by 2020, is one of the most vulnerable countries to a rise in sea levels because its low-lying islands and atolls would be submerged.
马尔代夫希望到2020年达到碳中和目标，这是受海平面上升威胁最严重的国家之一，其低洼岛屿和环礁岛将被淹没。
That is a question about which the Republic of the Marshall Islands - a Micronesian nation of 29 low-lying coral atolls - is now seeking expert legal advice.
这对马绍尔群岛共和国，一个由29块低珊瑚环礁组成的密克罗尼西亚人的国家来说，就是一个现实的难题了。
Then as quickly the rain stopped and a low-lying monster cloud filled with a muggy kind of light and a crowding heat blanketed everything.
然而雨下了不一会儿就停了，低垂的云像怪物一样，云层中透着湿热的光，周围弥漫着一股股热气。
Set in the low-lying Ganges–Brahmaputra River Delta, Bangladesh sits in a perfect storm of climactic conditions.
处在低洼的恒河—雅鲁藏布江三角洲地区，孟加拉国坐落在具有形成完美风暴的条件下。
The mighty Mississippi flows south and trails into the Gulf of Mexico through a vast, subtropical landscape of rivers, marshes, and low-lying barrier islands.
汹涌澎湃的密西西比河穿过了遍布支流、沼泽和低洼沙洲岛的广阔亚热带地区，由北向南注入了墨西哥湾。
Spills would also be a health risk, since carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and so can build up in low-lying or poorly ventilated spots.
二氧化碳泄漏会带来健康风险。由于二氧化碳比空气重，因此可以在低洼地区和通风差的地区累积。
Tuvalu, a series of low-lying islands in the Pacific, has declared a state of emergency due to water shortages.
图瓦卢，太平洋上的一系列低洼岛屿群，由于缺水而宣布进入紧急状态。
For species in flatter, low-lying regions such as deserts, grasslands, and coastal areas, the pace of the retreat could exceed more than half a mile a year, it is claimed.
据称，生活在诸如沙漠、草原和沿海这样平坦低洼地区的物种，撤退的速度可能远远超过每年半英里。
The waters swamped low-lying suburbs, tore ferries from their moorings and cars from their parking bays, and turned Brisbane’s business district into a ghost town.
洪水淹没了低洼的郊区，没过了停泊着的渡轮和停车场的汽车，把布里斯班的商业区变成了一座无人的城镇。
The waters swamped low-lying suburbs, tore ferries from their moorings and cars from their parking bays, and turned Brisbane's business district into a ghost town.
洪水淹没了低洼的郊区，没过了停泊着的渡轮和停车场的汽车，把布里斯班的商业区变成了一座无人的城镇。
Low-lying Padang is seen as vulnerable to a tsunami and its residents have been trained to flee to higher ground along designated routes when an alert is sounded.
地势低洼的巴东看来易受海啸袭击，当地居民已受过训练，一旦警报响起，他们就会按指定路线撤离至地势较高处。
The cyclone lifted a vast mass of sea-water and hurled it on low-lying villages on the delta, sweeping away tens of thousands of people.
这场飓风卷起大量海水并倾泻入三角洲低洼地带的村庄，数以万计的村民被冲走。
It may be smart to avoid living on the coast, on low-lying land, on a fault zone, in a major city, or on the sides of a volcano.
避免生活在海岸边、低洼地带、断裂带上、大城市里、或火山旁或许是聪明的选择。
"The water in a low-lying section of the southern Third Ring Road is knee-deep," said a Beijing resident surnamed Wang.
“三环地势低的地方水都已经没膝盖了，”北京的王女士说。
Up to 500,000 lost their lives, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta.
在这场灾难中有50万丧生。丧生的原因主要是由于风暴潮淹没了大多数恒河三角洲低洼的岛屿。
He presents a series of speculative vignettes of life at various low-lying locations, from Miami to Venice to the Netherlands to Bangladesh, as the level of atmospheric CO2 and the oceans rise.
他针对大气中二氧化碳增加和海水升高，推出了一系列各低洼地区生活的推测性短文，从迈阿密到威尼斯到荷兰到孟加拉国。
Up to 500, 000 lost their lives, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta.
丧生的原因主要是由于风暴潮淹没了大多数恒河三角洲低洼的岛屿。
Even in low-lying Iraq, British forces found that their Lynx helicopters, designed to carry a dozen soldiers, could manage one passenger at best during the summer heat.
甚至在地势低洼的伊拉克，英军也发现自己的山猫(Lynx)直升机——设计载客人数为12名——在夏季的热浪中最好只带一名乘客。
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