At the base of a mountain in Tanzania's Gregory Rift, Lake Natron burns bright red, surrounded by the remains of animals that were unfortunate enough to fall into the salty water.

在坦桑尼亚格雷戈里大裂谷的一座山脚下，纳特龙湖呈现出火焰燃烧般的亮红色，周围是不幸落入咸水的动物遗体。

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A number of alluvial fans along the base of a mountain may coalesce to form a continuous alluvial slope.

沿着山脚的一些冲积扇可能联合起来形成连续的冲积坡。

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The study's method was to analyze a mountain of published, peer-reviewed psychology papers. It found evidence both of a narrow research base and of the eccentricity of that base.

这项研究通过分析巨量的出版过的，同行评鉴过的心理学论文，找到了证据可以证明研究对象样本的狭小和这个样本群的反常之处。

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The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

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The land is heavily covered with mature Douglas firs and maple trees, and rolls across the base of a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula, with a total onsite elevation change of nearly 600 feet, again huge by golf course standards.

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Our toes are at the base of a big mountain.

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But moving about a football field a day, with lengthy stops, it could take nearly a year to reach the slopes at the base of the mountain.

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