Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled them across the sand.
很久以前，建筑工人可以在石头上绑上木杆，然后让它们在沙子上滚动。
Huff raised it 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings—long, slender columns of wood anchored deep in the sand.
Huff 用木桩将它抬高了2.7米，这条木桩又长又细，深深固定在沙子里。
Along the east coast of the United States, the southernmost advance of this ice is recorded by the enormous sand and drift deposits of the terminal moraines that form Long Island and Cape Cod.
沿着美国东海岸，最南边的冰川运动被大量的沙子和终碛石的漂流沉积物（形成了长岛和科德角）所记录下来。
Dependence on long-distance trade also meant that the great empires of the Middle East were built both literally and figuratively on shifting sand.
对长途贸易的依赖也意味着，伟大的中东帝国无论是实际上还是象征意义上，都是建立在流沙之上的。
Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled then across the sand, the scientists say.
科学家们说，很久以前的建筑工人也许是在石头上绑上木杆，然后在沙子上滚动。
Its long eyelashes keep out the sand during sandstorms.
它长长的睫毛可以在沙尘暴来袭时挡住沙子。
The bar was formed by the mud and sand deposited here over a long period of time.
河里的泥沙淤积在这里，年深日久便成了沙洲。
The atolls are composed of live coral reefs and sand bars, situated atop a submarine ridge 960 kilometers long that rises abruptly from the depths of the Indian Ocean and runs from north to south.
环礁由活着的珊瑚礁和沙洲组成，生长在印度洋深处从南到北长贯960公里的陡峭海脊之上。
When the sea goes out, the sand stretches for a long way.
海水退潮时，沙滩延伸出很远的一段。
As the grinding goes on, the pieces get small. Over a long time, tiny grains of sand are made.
在风浪的冲刷下，这些碎粒被磨得越来越小，很久以后就形成了很小的沙粒。
This small reptile, which measures just 10 centimeters long, can swim through the sand dunes at up to 15 centimeters per second.
这种身长只有10厘米小型爬行动物，可以在沙子中以最快每秒15厘米的速度游动。
Sand might seem more natural than pollution, but it is an indication of long-term pressure on the environment.
沙尘较之污染，也许让人觉得比较属于自然现象，但是它也反映了环境长期以来所受到的压力。
People who used to sunbathe on the beach now don long-sleeved shirts and floppy hats when they head to the sand.
那些喜欢日光浴的人们现在去海滩之前都要穿上长袖的衬衫，带上一顶软软的帽子。
By the time a grain of sand washes up on a beach in Florida, it has been battered by waves for a long time.
当一粒沙子被冲刷到福罗里达州的沙滩上的时候，她已经被海浪冲刷了很长时间。
"Small camel asked:" Mom Mom, why do we so thick the soles of the feet? "camel mother said:" That will enable us to many of the body is not stuck in soft sand for long-distance ah journey.
小骆驼又问：“妈妈妈妈，为什么我们的脚掌那么厚？ ”骆驼妈妈说：“那可以让我们重重的身子不至于陷在软软的沙子里，便于长途跋涉啊。”
When nested with sand between them, they last just long enough to let the titanium cool into beads of solid metal.
在两层花盆之间，加入沙的内衬可以让钛有足够的时间冷却成钛珠。
While she slept, Yindingie transformed her body into a long, slender island of crystalline sand, the largest such island in all the world.
她睡着后，茵丁杰把她的身体转化为细长的结晶沙海岛——全世界最大的沙岛。
The walls last a surprisingly long time, resisting the lapping tide with the help of energetic patching and fresh buckets of dry sand.
令人惊讶的是，这堵沙墙竟挺立了许久，由于大量修补、新置干沙，竟抵挡住千层浪的攻击。
First there is the energy required to power giant wind machines all day long, not to mention the electricity needed to pump coolant around tubes laid under the sand.
首先，这需要一整天启动风机制冷，更不要说还要大量电力在沙子下通过管道泵送制冷剂。
Earth dam consists of shallow sand and is located between the plant and the overflow dam. It is 2800 meters long and 600 meters wide.
土坝由浅沙筑成，长2800米，宽600米，位于电厂与溢流堰之间。
To further protect the house from hurricane damage, Huff raised it 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings-long, slender columns of wood anchored deep in the sand. CET-4, 2003.12.
为了进一步保护这座房子免遭飓风的破坏，建筑师Huff使它高出地面2.7米，坐落于木桩之上；细长的方木桩深深地牢扎在沙地之中。
If you come across an obstacle or an impasse, pay mind to it but don't focus on it for too long, or your feet may sink into the quick sand that surrounds it.
假如你遇到障碍，或者陷入绝境，用心对待它，但不要长时间纠缠于其上，否则你可能会深陷于环绕在这个困境周围的流沙之中。
And everyone knows that the north part is one long stretch of yellow sand.
它的北部大家伙都知道，乃是一片黄沙，唤作撒哈拉沙漠。
Golden sand in India and stone, the stone legend vows by a girl's tears and soil formation, as long as the girl hand 12 o 'clock at night in the moonlight gold sand vows, so wish will achieve.
金沙石在印度又叫许愿石，传说这石头是由一位女郎的眼泪和土壤形成的，只要女郎在晚上12点手拿金沙石在月光下许愿，那么愿望一定会实现。
We designed a long and wide corridor that they can run at full power, and installed Sand and the pool in indoors where they can play without worrying about radiation dose.
我们设计了一个长且宽的走廊，还在室内设置一个沙坑和一个泳池，孩子们可以在其中尽情跑动、玩耍，不用担心室外辐射。
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now.
我想起我最爱的一首苏菲诗歌，说神很久以前就在你此刻脚下的所在地周围，画上圆圈了。
When winds blow sand particles against a large rock for a long time, the softer layer of the rock are slowly worn away.
由于风将砂粒刮起来，碰撞大岩石，久而久之，较松软的岩石层就被慢慢地磨损。(只能译成“较”，不能译为“更”)。
I crossed wet ground and came to a long, open piece of sand, then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand.
我穿过一片沼泽地带，来到一片长而开阔的沙地，然后到了沙地附近一片树高叶茂的地方。
Before long, she had traveled half a mile into the barren labyrinth between the hills of sand.
不久她就行进了半英里来到沙丘间的荒凉的迷宫中。
Before long, she had traveled half a mile into the barren labyrinth between the hills of sand.
不久她就行进了半英里来到沙丘间的荒凉的迷宫中。
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