The top line of white, he explained, shows how high the water gets during the flash floods in winter.

他告诉我们，岩壁上白线的顶部显示冬季洪水涨到最高的水位。

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One winter morning, an employee explained why he had shown up for work 45 minutes late. "It was so slippery out that for every step I took ahead, I slipped back two."

在某个冬日的早晨，员工在向老板解释为啥迟到了45分钟：“地上太滑了，我每向前迈一步，就向后滑两步。”

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When the expression was explained to her, she thought of the way her grandmother used to clip her hair shorter than a boy's, in summer or winter, but this would not make a good office tale.

当这个词被解释的时侯，她想到她的祖母在夏天或者冬天总是把她的头发剪的比男孩子短的方法，但是这不是一个好的办公室聊天话题。

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"I saw a report on CNN with the Snow Leopard who qualified from Ghana for the Winter Olympics in 2010, " he explained.

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The dig itself was affected by the water table in the area which Phillip explained gets too wet in winter as from November the water rises to less than two feet below the surface which is actually higher than the items being searched for.

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Top of the list of those winter discoveries is the burial site near Ogmore, Dr Driver explained.

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