An hour later, the son came back with the empty basket and told his father it was impossible to hold water with the basket.
一个小时后，儿子带着空篮子回来了，告诉父亲用篮子装水是不可能的。
Less vegetation means the soil can't hold water as well; the soil loses its ability to retain water when it does rain.
更少的植被意味着土壤也无法保持水分；下雨时土壤就失去了保持水分的能力。
At first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the "solid" ground underfoot to hold all this water.
乍一想，似乎难以置信的是，在脚下的“坚实”地面上居然有足够的空间来容纳这么多的水。
He beat the water with his paws to hold himself up, but the harder he tried, the deeper he sank.
他用爪子拍打水面，想让自己浮起来，可是越用力，沉下去得越深。
Because warm air can hold more moisture than cool air, the relative humidity will be constant only if the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere increases as the temperature rises.
因为温暖的空气比冷空气能容纳更多的湿气，所以只有当大气中的水蒸气量随着温度的升高而增加时，相对湿度才会保持不变。
Then it snows because as the air rises, it cools off and loses its capacity to hold water vapor.
然后就会下雪，因为当空气上升时，它就会冷却并失去保持水蒸气的能力。
水能载舟。
In ancient China, there is also a saying, water can hold the boat, it can also make the boat turn upside down.
在中国古代也有谚语说，水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
That moon rocks can hold any water is a surprise because it contradicts the prevailing ideas about how the moon formed.
月岩中含有水分实在是出人意料，这与当下的月球形成理论相悖。
The South Pole's Aitken Basin, an eight-mile deep gouge in the lunar crust, ranks as the largest impact crater in the solar system, and could hold water in the form of ice.
南极的艾肯特盆地陷入月球表面8英里，称得上是太阳系内最大的撞击形成环形山，那里可能存在着冰块形式的水。
Just as a glass can only hold so much water, a buffer can only hold so many bits.
缓冲区只能容纳一定数量的位，就像一个杯子只能盛一定量的水。
Hair on your skin can hold water droplets too. A hairy leg may get sunburned more quickly than a shaved one.
皮肤上的汗毛也能保存水滴。毛茸茸的腿晒黑的速度比光溜溜的腿更快。
But the lakes themselves remain; and while much of America is regularly afflicted by drought, they hold enough water to submerge the entire country.
但是湖泊却还在这里。尽管美国大部分地区都定期遭受干旱之苦，五大湖的蓄水量却足以将整个国家淹没。
When air is cooled to a point at which the air's capacity to hold more water vapor is zero, saturation is reached.
当空气进一步冷却到容纳更多水汽的能力为零(的那一点)时，饱和状态就达到了。
Marbling and fat around edges helps hold in water. Water losses are from evaporation and drip losses.
大理石纹和切口脂肪有助于保水，水分损失源于蒸发和滴水损失。
The suggestion that speculators deliberately manipulate markets to earn profits through bubbles and busts simply does not hold water.
那些声称投资者通过故意操纵市场，利用泡沫的产生和破灭来赢取利润的理论根本站不住脚。
But the argument that Japan needs to intervene in the currency markets because the yen is too strong doesn't hold water.
但是辩称日本需要在货币市场进行干预是因为日元太强并不成立。
In front of the hall, there are a couple of gilded bronze vats, which were used to hold water in case of fire.
在大殿前，有一对镀金的青铜大缸，它是用来装水的以防火灾。
The method can quickly judge the soil's ability to hold water and take –in nutrients.
这种方法能快速判断出土壤蓄水和吸收养分的能力。
One eof my business partners has many interesting new ideas, but he's a little impractical, and often they don't hold water.
我的一位商业伙伴有很多有趣的新创意，但他有点不切实际，这些创意经常解释不通。
Camel Do the humps on camels hold water?
骆驼骆驼的驼峰能保存水吗？
These viewpoints such as "the end of history", "the end of nation-state", "the end of sovereignty", "super-nationalism" cannot hold water.
“历史终结论”、“民族国家终结论”、“主权终结论”、“超国家主义”等观点是站不住脚的。
There seems to be no grass in Beijing, only plots of beige loess, which apparently will not hold water.
北京似乎没有草，只有一堆堆的黄土，很显然这不能保留住多少水分。
There seems to be no grass in Beijing, only plots of beige loess, which apparently will not hold water.
北京似乎没有草，只有一堆堆的黄土，很显然这不能保留住多少水分。
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