Their seed heads raised just high enough above the ground to catch the wind, the plants are no bigger than they need be, their stems are hollow, and all the rigidity comes from their water content.
它们的种子的顶端向上生长，其距离地面的高度刚好可以接触到风；它们的体型大小也刚好是生长所需的尺寸；它们的茎是空心的，且仅仅是通过体内的含水量来保持自身的坚挺。
If it is displayed on such occasions, do not allow the flag to fall to the ground, but let it be carried high up in the air to form a feature of the ceremony.
如果在这种场合展示国旗，不要让国旗掉到地上，而是让它高高地悬在空中以构成仪式的特色。
The Republicans took the moral high ground with the message that they were best equipped to manage the authority.
共和党人传达了他们最有资格管理政府的信息，从而在道义上占据了优势。
Even with snow on the ground, the high bushy understory is exposed; also snow and wind bring down leafy branches of cedar, hemlock, red alder, and other arboreal fodder.
即使地上有雪，高而浓密的下层植被也显露出来；雪和风也会吹落雪松、铁杉、红桤木多叶的树枝和其他的树木草料。
Red squirrels live high up in trees, while grey squirrels spend more of their time on the ground.
红松鼠生活在高高的树上，而灰松鼠则大部分时间生活在地面上。
Using high-speed photography, scientists have determined that there are two steps to the occurrence of lightning from a cloud to the ground.
利用高速摄影技术，科学家们已经确定了闪电从云层到达地面有两个步骤。
This enables them to avoid the worst rigors of high winds and permits them to make use of the higher temperatures immediately adjacent to the ground surface.
这种特点使它们能够避开最严酷的狂风，并且使它们能够利用紧挨地表的更高温度。
Shou Juhua had to use a dinghy on Sunday to check his grapes, located on nearby high ground and spared, at least for now, from the worst of the flooding.
寿菊华不得不在周日乘坐小艇检查其种植于高地的葡萄，至少现在，还没有被最恶劣的洪水所影响。
Some scientists theorized that perhaps when the ground is slippery the high winds can then move the rocks.
一些科学家提出了一个理论：当地面很滑的时候，或许大风就可以移动岩石。
During the Samoan tsunami in September 2009, people who could easily have climbed to high ground in the hills behind them chose, instead, to evacuate by car.
在2009年9月的萨摩亚海啸中，人们本可以轻易地爬上身后地势较高的山坡，然而他们当时却选择了乘车逃跑。
None of this is immoral, of course. Confectionery is a tough business. But it does make it harder for Cadbury to take the high ground.
当然，所有这些都并非不道德的。糖果行业处境艰难，而这确实加大了吉百利保持较高道德水准的难度。
Even when people start evacuating immediately, they may not have time to reach high ground if the nearest hill is a few miles away.
即使人们马上转移，也可能来不及登上数米之外最近的高地。
The animal activists claim to have the moral high ground, but look at what they did to me.
动物保护爱好者认为他们在道德上比我们高尚，但看看他们是怎么对我的。
This would be the "high ground" for any number of space operations, space manufacturing, construction and commercialization; it could be a "space dock" straight out of the Star Trek universe.
这将会成为“高”对于任何数量的空间操作、空间、建筑和商业化，它可能是一个“太空船坞”的《星舰迷航记》的宇宙。
It must have found high ground, waited there as the water rose, then set off again, driven by hunger.
它一定找到了一块高地，一直等在那儿直到水又涨起来，再把它冲走，随即陷入饥饿。
Evacuation routes are well-signed, and vertical evacuation is available in areas distant from high ground.
疏散路线标的很清楚，在距离地面很高的地区也设置了垂直疏散。
But there was no high ground and Mr Kingdom could not see if the hunter was positioned in a deer seat.
但是附近没有高地，金顿姆先生也看不清是不是猎手埋伏在桩子上的椅子里。
Flooding facilitates spread of the organism because of the proliferation of rodents and the proximity of rodents to humans on Shared high ground.
洪水后啮齿动物的扩散，以及人类与啮齿动物共占高地后带来的近距离接触，加剧了这种病菌的传播。
And there's a common parental anxiety about losing the moral high ground, a fear that someday this will be thrown back in your face.
现在在父母当中有一种普遍的焦虑就是对于道德高地的焦虑，他们担心这一切有一天会重演。
You must set up an airtight base defense immediately, blocking the two base access roads at their chokepoints (2 and 3) and putting defense on the high ground overlooking both chokes.
你必须建立一个密闭的基地防御，挡住了两个基地在敌军的阻塞点(路2号和3号)、临河高地的防守上都化油器。
Taking despondent refuge on the moral high ground, they actually become a feature of the Berlusconi vision; they are the whiners who moan that the glorious winner is cheating.
他们自己委身于道德高地之上，实际上却成为了贝鲁斯科尼大观园中的一景；他们像一群失败者一般哀嚎到辉煌的赢家在作弊。
Instead of a lavish monument and a burial on high ground, as had been allotted to other prominent officers, he requested a simple white tombstone and a space among enlisted men.
本来如同其他杰出军官一样，他也享有指定的豪华纪念碑、葬于风水宝地。但他要求在那些士兵中间找个地方、竖起他那块简简单单的白色墓碑。
Along a service road abutting the motorway on high ground, you see four abandoned houses.
沿着高处与高速公路平行的一条便道行驶，你会看到四幢废弃的房屋。
Now several prominent Democrats are abandoning the high ground and have decided to raise millions of their own secret dollars.
现在，一些杰出的民族党人放下了他们的矜持，决定去筹集他们自己的秘密捐款。
When I reached my home, on high ground, the lock on the front door was broken and the floor was covered with books, CDs and plates that had fallen from the shelves.
当我回到家的时候，站在高处，前门的锁已经坏了，地板上也铺满了从架子上掉下来的书，光盘以及盘子。
This may seem arcane, but for the British, who have long occupied the intellectual high ground of financial policymaking in the EU, it is a blow to see the initiative wrested from them.
这可能看起来难以理解，但是对于英国而言，他们长期占据了欧盟金融政策制定中“智慧”上的高地，当看到这种（政策制定的）主动权从他们手中被夺走时，对他们而言是一记重拳。
Thousands have been made homeless and survivors are said to be sheltering on high ground.
数千居民无家可归，据说生还者正在高地暂时避难。
Thousands have been made homeless and survivors are said to be sheltering on high ground.
数千居民无家可归，据说生还者正在高地暂时避难。
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