"A lot of these regions, being a coastal province, we have some of the world's best shellfish and fishing."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

That area was controlled by Egypt at the purported time of the Exodus Running north to south, next to that coastal plain, is a region of low mountains.

在出埃及记时期，这个地区被埃及所控制,南北分布，靠近海岸平原，是低矮的山区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If you look at your map you will see first on the west side, you've got a low coastal plain. It is about 20 or 30 miles wide.

如果看地图的话，你会首先在西端看到，你会看到地势低的海岸平原，大约20到30公里宽。

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But the emotional highpoint of his visit to Ghana came at the end a tour of a coastal fortress, where for 300 years, countless Africans boarded ships bound for death at sea or a life in slavery.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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This would support a theory that the fish became poisoned in coastal waters before entering the harbor.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

This represents a major threat, especially to coastal areas.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The Israeli military says Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket that hit the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon 12 kilometers away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

An international investigation concluded last week that the coastal patrol warship was hit by a North Korean torpedo.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Sibylle Schellman, a native of Germany, runs a small restaurant overlooking the ocean in the coastal town of Calheta on Santiago's northeast coast.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"What the federal government does, has a huge impact on where we build in coastal zones, how we farm, what our infrastructure looks like."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Cuong is a trader from the nearby coastal province of Ben Tre.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

The Israeli raid on the aid flotilla sparked an outcry and put intense international attention on the situation in Gaza, a narrow coastal strip with 1.5 million Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The LTTE,in a statement, says 150,000 civilians, on the verge of starvation in the sliver of coastal land they still control, can only be helped by a halt in the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

They are the nurseries of the ocean, where many species of fish and shrimp breed and serve as a buffer against coastal erosion in a region where much of the population livesin low-lying areas.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

adaptations,coastal protections Among a host of necessary need to be built, crops threatened by drought need to be modified, health care needs to be stepped up, and new clean energy solutions need to put in place.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04