Was it lying buried under a heap of sand until it was uncovered by a storm?

是不是静静躺在沙子堆下，直到一场风暴才让它重见天日？

youdao

Where has the bottle been all these years was it lying buried under a heap of sand until it was uncovered by a storm I shall never know.

漂流瓶这些年都去哪了？难道就被埋在沙子下面，直到一阵狂风吹来，它才重见天日？

youdao

There are 1, 000, 000 grains of sand in a heap.

有一堆1,000 000颗沙粒组成的沙堆。

youdao

He himself would leave no more than a heap of bones on a beach somewhere, crumbling back into sand.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'