The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags of sand and a large slope of earth.

那队炮兵的工事如果完成，就可能成为大害。 炮位设在一道极矮的园墙后面，百忙中加上了一层沙袋和一道宽土堤。

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True, it is August, when plenty of Wall Street players skulk away from muggy Manhattan for their share of sun and sand in the Hamptons.

不错，现在是8月，许多华尔街的交易员都逃离闷热的曼哈顿，前往长岛汉伯顿享受阳光和沙滩了。

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I take pride in this Great Wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand.

我以这垛高墙作为自豪，而用沙土把它埋得结结实实。

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This sea wall is built right into the hills of sand that make up the coast.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

The long,brownish red wall protects the white sand and coastal grasses from the sea.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

The troops have erected a sand wall and embark on daily foot and vehicle patrols.

CNN: Syria: We're thwarting militants along Iraq border

The Moroccans used them in the fighting and have now deployed them as their main weapon alongside the 900-mile sand wall, the "Berm" - that they constructed as a barrier between Western Sahara and the Saharawi camps in Algeria.

BBC: News Online

My impression is that the men socialize with one another and build on these connections better than the women do on Sand Hill Road, not to mention Wall Street and corporate America.

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