The situation is made worse by the fact that its ancient buildings, built on a body of water called a lagoon, are slowly sinking.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

You can become dehydrated and die just as a result of the loss of water there, because of your body's natural response to the infection.

就会脱水,而失水的后果就是死亡,这是你身体对于这种感染的自然反应

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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Experts say even a two percent drop in the body's water supply can cause signs of dehydration.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

There can be a supply of them, a storehouse of them that can build up in the body, and so day-to-day fluctuations become less of a problem with fat soluble then water soluble vitamins, because the body can go grab them from a storage depot, if you will.

从而在体内建立起一个供应源,一个脂溶性维生素仓库,这样一来,相比起水溶性维生素,脂溶性维生素的浓度不会每天剧烈波动,因为机体可以任意取用体内的储存

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Experts say a reduction of only four or five percent in body water leads to a drop of twenty to thirty percent in work ability.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Lake Champlain is a long, narrow body of water.

VOA: special.2009.01.05