They look like low-lying, white or grey buttes, long, narrow hills with flat tops, barely a meter high.

它们看起来就像低洼的白色或灰色的孤山，又长又窄，山顶平坦，只有一米高的山。

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Nuclear planners clearly did not appreciate how bad things could get on a low-lying coast in a seismic zone; and poor planning is part of the problem.

核能规划者们显然未能认识到在震区地势低洼的海岸边，情况能够变得多糟；而拙劣的设计正是问题的一部分。

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The earthquake took there a tsunami that could inundate low-lying lands as far away as Japan.

地震在这些地带引发了一次海啸，远至日本的一些低地都被海水淹没。

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They are the nurseries of the ocean, where many species of fish and shrimp breed and serve as a buffer against coastal erosion in a region where much of the population livesin low-lying areas.

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After half an hour or so, the Tahoe drives up to a gated complex with a barbed wire fence and from there to a small low-lying building surrounded by a handful of Iraqis in jumpsuits.

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The flood region is a low-lying prairie, and water about thigh-deep spread over a broad region, inundating homes and cars.

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Oakwood Beach, a low-lying oceanfront neighborhood, is one of those areas, the governor said.

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