n. 悬崖
vt. 使成陡坡
n a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion
n a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
1. I'm standing on an old scarp that's very gentle now.
这是个年代更久远的地震陡坎 现在已经非常平缓了
2. So that entire free surface is the earthquake scarp.
所以整个这一 就是地震陡坎了
3. The fact that beyond the school buildings, the land is higher and it may be there was an old scarp here.
事实上离教学大楼上远一点的地方 地势较高 说明这里以前或是一个陡坎
4. Mike's looking for earthquake scarps steps in the landscape where the rupture has lifted the ground up.
麦克正在寻找地震陡坎 就是地貌的台阶 也就是被断裂拱起的地方
5. They're hoping that a scarp this size will tell them more about earthquakes that have happened here in the past and those that are yet to come.
他们希望像这种大小的地震陡坎 能够给他们提供更多关于 以往地震 以及将要发生的地震的信息
6. To be fair to the authorities, there are many fault scarps in these mountains and they're very, very difficult to find, we had only just begun to find some of them, it takes a long and sustained effort.
我们想让中国政府知道的是 这些山脉里头隐藏着许多 难以发现的断层陡坎 我们还处于起步阶段 只找到其中几处 路漫漫其修远兮
7. And it continues to be this sort of hammocky topography in these fields, so this sort of old scarp and the much greater relief here at this point would tell us that this has been the place of an earthquake before and probably several before that too, so points to the importance of mapping these things in great detail.
它在这一片仍然属于 丘陵的地形 所以这类旧的地震陡坎 以及这里更明显的特征 从这一点上我们可以知道 这就是曾经发生地震的地方 在那之前 可能还发生过几次 所以详细标注这些断层 非常重要
8. The two things that important here is that the elevation difference between where I'm standing right here and up there is significantly higher than it was further along the the rupture and further back along the rupture that way we saw the modern earthquake scarp being very irregular and this looks almost identical to that, so this is very suggestive.
这里有两点发现很重要 就是地面高度的差异 我现在所站的地方 和那个位置高度相差很大 比起断裂的其他位置 高度差距更大一些 我们看到现在的地震陡坎非常不规则 这个与那边的非常相像 这一定暗示着什么
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