Experts have studied the areas most affected and have drawn up a map for local people, forecasting the year in which their homes will be swallowed up by the hungry sea.

专家们研究了受影响最严重的地区，并为当地居民绘制了一幅地图，预测他们的房子将在哪一年被汹涌的海水吞没。

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The hypothesis is not undermined by observations that sea levels are falling relative to the Scandinavian coast by four millimeters a year.

尽管海平面被观测到相对斯堪的纳维亚海岸每年下降4毫米，这一假设并没有受到破坏。

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By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing.

到公元前1000年，居住在地中海附近地区的人们已经开发出一套更简单的书写系统。

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Statistics from Australia's National Tidal Center show sea levels have increased by 8.6 millimeters a year off Perth and by 8.1 off the tropical Kimberley region over the past two decades.

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We had one holiday a year usually by the sea for a week, Dad hired a car and we stayed in a caravan.

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By the end of the year, Stevens scientists intend to develop a map that charts potential sea levels in New York City up until 2080.

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Every year on the Feast of St Michael, the townspeople propitiate the sea spirits by solemnly burning a boat and scattering its ashes on the water.

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