In lowland country almost any spot on the ground may overlie what was once the bed of a river that has since become buried by soil; if they are now below the water’s upper surface (the water table), the gravels and sands of the former riverbed, and its sandbars, will be saturated with groundwater.
译文 低地区域上的任何位置可能就是曾经的河床,后续被土壤覆盖而变成现在的样子。如果那些河床和沙洲现在位于地下水位之下,一定会有大量的地下水浸在它们的沙砾和沙石之间。
明日长难句预告│0727 For example, some early societies ceased to consider certain rites essential to their well-being and abandoned them, nevertheless, they retained as parts of their oral tradition the myths that had grown up around the rites and admired them for their artistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness. |
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