Now then, if water isn't absolutely incompressible, at least it compresses very little.

是，水虽是绝对压缩，至少是很难压缩。

Loosely packed dry soils tend to compress under stress, but with incompressible water unable to escape the gaps between grains, the soil can't compress and the water takes the load.

松散的干土在应力作用下容易压缩，压缩的水无法从土粒间的缝隙中逸出，土壤无法压缩，水就承担了负荷。

Because we are made largely of water ourselves, and water is virtually incompressible, in the words of Frances Ashcroft of Oxford University, the body remains at the same pressure as the surrounding water, and is not crushed at depth.

在很大程度上我们本身也是水组成的，而水——用牛津大学弗朗西斯·阿什克罗夫特的话来说——“实际上是压扁的”，因此人体仍会保持与周围水一样的压力，会被压死。