There wasn't enough water to float the ship.

水不够深，船浮动不起来。

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Spores light enough to float on the breezes were carried thousands of miles from more ancient lands and deposited at random across the bare mountain flanks.

轻到能在微风中漂浮的孢子从更古老的地方被带到数千英里外，随意沉积在光秃秃的山侧。

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The concrete and glass museum is built next to a body of water, so it almost seems to float.

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I just want to float to the dining hall after-- " so much easier, so much less painful."

我只想下午时飘去餐厅-,更加容易，更少痛苦“

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As you walk amid the buildings and trees, as you see your friends and classmates, allow these emotions to float through you, freely, lightly.

在你走在建筑物和树木之间时，在你看到朋友和同学时，让那些情绪流遍你的全身，自由地，轻盈地。

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Simultaneously massive and weightless, the structures seem to float above a shallow reflecting pond.

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The reaction was then to float a retrospective law to change the Supreme Court decision.

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When the government allowed the real to float on January 15th, investors were euphoric.

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