This is a lively rattlebag of a history of the Pacific slope and of how the Pacific Ocean came to be an American lake.

本书讲述了太平洋斜坡的（发家史）和太平洋如何成为美国的一个内湖，如一只嘎嘎带（rattlebag），生动有趣。

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The site of the find is a sharp, narrow slope that may once have been on the shore of a lake.

发现那件东西的地方是在一个陡狭的斜坡上，那里从前也许是湖岸。

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The relationship between the factors such as gradient, loads and groundwater and the slope stability in lake tunnel excavation should be known.

湖底隧道建设中，各种因素如边坡坡度，坡上超载以及地下水等对开挖时边坡稳定性的影响必须确定。

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Neither the ocean nor the lake is in play, but the slope of the terrain is.

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On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.

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The town of maybe a few hundred people is locked in a self-sustaining cycle of grief after a school bus slides off the road one morning, careens down a slope, and sinks in an icy lake.

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