In the 1920s airplanes loaded with electrified sand were piloted by military aviators who "attacked" the clouds in futile attempts to both make rain and clear fog.

18世纪20年代，军事飞行员驾驶着载满带电沙粒的飞机去袭击云层，尝试人工造雨并且清除雾层。

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The rain had cemented bits of sand, silt and clay into clumps up to a centimeter wide.

雨水把小粒的沙子、淤泥和尘土粘合成厘米大的团块儿。

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Sand, re-stain or paint to furniture as needed. This will also protect the furniture from the elements, especially from rain saturating the wood.

根据需要对家具进行磨砂，重新油漆和染色，这也将保护家具免受损坏，特别是防止雨水侵蚀。

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Back home now in the beautiful village of Childrey, part of the Lambourn "valley of the racehorse", Fitzgerald bemoans heavy summer rain which last July led to his home being flooded - the sand bags are out again.

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While their female counterparts had to fight for their gold medal Thursday in wet sand and smog-stained rain, the U.S. men's beach volleyball team had sunny weather.

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Every grain of sand washed away by rain from mountains and from the land finally reaches these obstacles called dams which we built across rivers and remains there, diminishing further the water storage capacity of dams.

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