Geologists therefore wondered whether the friction between the plates was being reduced by pockets of pressurized water within the fault that push the plates away from each other.

因此，地质学家们想知道，断层内部的加压水袋是否会使板块之间的摩擦力减小，从而使板块彼此远离。

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Meanwhile, a wall of water surged from the fault zone toward the coast of Honshu.

同时，一面水墙奔腾着从断层带向本州岛沿岸涌去。

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"Please don't grudge anyone for what happened," Celia said to her father, she gulped her water, "it was my fault for missing the bar."

“请不要因为发生的事情怨恨任何人，”西莉亚对父亲说。她咽下几口水。

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Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.

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