The water dragged up silt from the river bottom.

波浪把河底泥沙都带了上来。

Locate it first and figure out its length, and then clear away the silt around it, bit by bit.

摸清楚整根藕走势和长度，然后再逐段地清除淤泥。

It's especially vulnerable to light damage, and by the mid-1990s, Gilardi's pumpkins, roses, and other figures were silting and crumbling.

它特别容易受光， 1990 年代中期，吉拉迪南瓜、玫瑰和其他人物已经淤塞和破碎。

Flowing southward down this great river, the silt is carrying pesticides.

泥沙顺着这条大河往南流，携带着农药。

If it is broken and contaminated with silt, the value will be ruined.

藕断了就破了卖相，灌进了淤泥，就更卖不出价格。

These formed when silts and muds and clays were deposited in swampy wetlands environments.

当泥沙和粘土积在沼泽湿地环境中就会形成化石。

Silt is very small sand, mud or other material carried by running water.

泥沙是指流水携带细小沙子、泥或其他物质。

Muck divers explore apparently unpromising sand flats and muddy silts devoid of visible inhabitants.

漫潜者探索是毫无前途沙坪区域以及没有任何可见居住动物泥沙区域。

A slower conveyor belt also means that silt and debris get carried and deposited differently.

大洋输送带也意味着淤泥和碎石以不同方式被携带和积。

People who are not so strong are incapable of digging through the silt.

一般身体素质差，一锹土下去，没这个体力。

It grows deep in the silt and is difficult to dig out.

这种植物生长在湖水下面深深淤泥中，要想挖并不是容易事。

Called glacial rock flour, the silt is crushed to tiny particles by the weight of the melting ice.

这种泥沙被称为冰川岩粉。它被融化冰压碎成微小颗粒。

One billion tons of the silt is deposited it per year on Greenland, the world's largest island.

每年有10亿吨泥沙积在世界上最大岛屿——格陵兰岛上。

34. And the silting continued at an alarming rate.

淤泥积继续以惊人速度发展。

In many cases it's only these containers that remain, while the wooden ships have been buried under silt on the seabed.

在很多情况下，只有这些箱子能够保存下来，木质船只被埋在海床上泥沙下。

The tiny size of the silt's particles also helps speed up a natural process in which rocks absorb carbon dioxide (CO2).

泥沙颗粒微小尺寸也有助于加速岩石吸收二氧化碳自然过程。

The tiny size of the silt's particles also helps speed up a natural process in which rocks absorb carbon dioxide.

泥沙颗粒微小尺寸也有助于加速岩石吸收二氧化碳自然过程。

One of the main rescue sites is a tunnel where the powerful flood deposited tons of rock, silt and thick black mud.

其中一个主要救援地点是一个隧道，猛烈洪水灌入了成吨岩石、淤泥和厚厚黑色泥浆。

When the silt dissolves in rainwater and releases its nutrients, a chemical reaction occurs that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

当泥沙溶解在雨水中并释放出营养物质时，就会发生化学反应，并吸收大气中二氧化碳。

Look out for the ship's wheel which was missing until only five years ago when it was dredged out of the silt by a local fisherman.

大家可以注意一下帆船舵轮，这个舵轮之前一直处于遗失状态，直五年前才被一位当地渔民从淤泥中挖掘出来。