Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.

当浮动冰架破裂时，对海平面的影响很小；而与之不同的是，固定在基岩上的冰盖将会使海面炸毁。

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More than a thousand people claim to have seen the bulbous back of an unidentified creature briefly break the glassy surface of Loch Ness, then disappear.

一千余人声称见到了一个未经确认的动物，短暂地穿出尼斯湖光亮透明的水面，然后逐渐消失。

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The display knows when a hand is coming near it thanks to infrared sensors, which respond before the fingers reach the surface and break the depth illusion.

显示器带有红外感应器可以感知用户的手的接近，在手到达显示表明之前的做出响应，打破深度的幻觉。

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"We know that surface use of dispersants decreases the environmental risk to shorelines and organisms at the surface and we know that dispersants break down over weeks rather than remaining for several years as untreated oil might."

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This type of tag, however, requires a buoy to carry the aerial, and this is attached to the shark by a ten-metre-long line. (The line is needed because the sharks themselves rarely break the surface, and the transmitter cannot signal to the satellite from under water.) Two American biologists, Scott Eckert and Brent Stewart, from the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute in San Diego, have had some success with satellite tracking.

ECONOMIST: Whale sharks

On the surface, Clara took the break-up pretty well (it was the first time someone had left her).

NEWYORKER: Clara

It is possible that larger seeps at different times and locations might in fact be vigorous enough to break through the ocean surface.

BBC: Methane seeps from Arctic sea-bed