· grain
· 微粒, 颗粒
· All the microscopic available states, that is, if I take an individual particle and I say where it can be, all those states have the same energy.
· pebble
· 卵石
· And what I do is, I select a hard stone hammer, in this case a quartzite pebble about the size ofa cricket ball, and I elect to hit it in one place - and this is where I start to knap.
· consolidate
· strengthen
· 巩固, 加强
· In the coming months, my administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate, andreorganize the federal government in a way that best serves the goal of a more competitiveAmerica.
· unconsolidated
· loose
· 松散的
· Consolidated
· A polar bear in drifting and unconsolidated sea ice in Kane Basin, off Cape Clay, at a position of79 57.359N 064 51.120W.
· gravel
· small stones
· 碎石、砂砾
· Through this door one does not find an entrance, but rather another wall, blank, but carved this time, bordered by a white gravel path.
· coarse
· rough
· 粗糙的
· smooth, fine
· You have a proxy server that performs important authorization to
limit who can access whatapplications at a coarse grained level.
· sediment
· deposit, precipitation
· 沉积, 沉淀物
· That there are not could be explained by the fact that the accumulation of sediment in mostrocks is so slow that the two layers are, in effect, superimposed.
· steady
· stable
· 稳定的
· I could have that path be very slow and steady, so that at every point along the way, my gas is an equilibrium.
· melt
· 融化
· They note that pressure and the temperature inside the reactor core remain at levels far lower than what would further melt the core.
· volume
· amount
· 量
· You should also create them with one LUN for each array and then spread all your logicalvolumes across all the physical volumes in your Volume Group.
· laden
· loaded
· 装满的
· They moor their laden boats near my trees.
· glacial
· about glaciers (large ice)
· 冰川的
· Icy
· However, scientists note that it fits with the trend of melting glacial ice they first saw in thesouthern part of the massive island and seems to be marching north with time.
· outwash
· 冰水沉积
· Sometimes the animal multitudes are horizontal, as on Salisbury Plain, a glacial outwash deltadensely colonized by king penguins, fur and elephant seals, and kelp gulls.
· scale
· size
· 规模
· Because we’ve set the point scale to provide with a maximum score of 100 for each element,what we really have is a percentage score.
· emerge
· appear
· 出现
· Disappear
· For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months.
· spread
· 传播、散开
· Countries should prepare to see cases, or the further spread of cases, in the near future.
· fanwise
· 呈扇形
· slope
· 斜坡
· For the past decade, war widows have converged here and built by hand their mud hovels on a slope above a cemetery in an eastern neighborhood of the Afghan capital.
· inland
· 内陆
· All coastal residents living in seismic zones should know that if they feel an earthquake tremorthat lasts over 30 seconds, they should evacuate inland or to high ground immediately.
· spot
· 地点
· That's a real fluid boundary between the divine and human realms, if you ask me. But it onlyhappens there, in one spot.
· lowland
· 低地
· Highland
· Compared to lowland Chinese, Tibetans thrive in high altitude—they do not suffer from chronicaltitude sickness and their children are born with normal weight.
· overlie
· cover
· 覆盖
· They collected core samples from freshwater aquifers in the US that overlie potential CCS sitesand then studied their reaction to exposure to CO2 over the course of a year in the laboratory.
· water table
· 地下水位
· A child was at the water table and she was busy sudsing up some soap and stirring with herspoon, and there was a child next to her.
