"The sea level rise is a much slower thing, so it will take a long time to happen, but we will lock into it, based on the peak level of [carbon dioxide] we reach in this century," Solomon says.

“海平面上升是一个缓慢得多的事情，因此将需要很长时间才能发生，但我们将基于本世纪达到的二氧化碳峰值锁定它的水平。”所罗门说。

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If AAPB could be recruited, they would provide an alternative way of getting the sea to lock up CO2.

如果AAPB可以被采纳，就将提供锁住海洋中二氧化碳的心方法。

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Qiuyong in blue sea water, listening to the heartbeat of the Maldives - if life could only travel time, most people would not hesitate to lock the Maldives.

泅泳于湛蓝海水里，聆听马尔代夫的心跳——如果一辈子只能旅游一次，大多数人还是会毫不犹豫地锁定马尔代夫。

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The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.

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It isn't even just a matter of losing our leverage over large strategic swaths of the globe: Russia in Ukraine will mean a pressure-lock on the Black Sea, on Georgia, Azerbaija and Turkey, which will ultimately furnish Moscow with a choke-hold on fuel supplies to Europe and a geostrategic veto on our Iran policy.

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