Now the Java sea had yielded up a shipload, many perfectly preserved-protected in the stoneware jars from the scouring action of sand on the seafloor.

如今，爪哇海交出了一批船货。由于石器罐子的保护作用，里面的碗逃脱了海底沙的冲刷，许多都完整的保存下来了。

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The enlargement of the channel scouring will favorable to the increase of the channel dis- charge, however, the illegal sand mining will be quite unfavorable to the stability of the channel as well.

河道冲刷扩大将有利于增加河道泄量，但无序采砂也将给河道稳定带来不利影响。

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Katrina killed more than 1, 800 people when it struck August 29, 2005, scouring Mississippi beach towns down to bare sand and rupturing the protective levees around New Orleans, Louisiana.

CNN: Gustav hits Jamaica; Haiti says 51 dead