They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls.
他们躺在坚实的沙滩上，听着海鸥的哀鸣。
Canada's oil sands are a huge resource.
加拿大油砂资源丰富。
At midday, the sands are blistering hot.
正午的时候，沙子被晒得酷热。
This will occur both in sands and clays.
这在砂土地和粘土地带常常发生。
But cleaning up the tar sands will not be easy.
但是清理焦油沙并不容易。
The real reason lies in the vast Alberta oil sands.
真正的原因在于大量的艾伯塔油砂。
Mineral sands, such as zircon, sit under a tarpaulin.
油布覆盖着锆石之类矿产。
The water gradually percolated down through the sands.
水渐渐从沙子里渗漏下去。
Some American retailers have forsworn fuel from the tar sands.
一些美国零售商发誓不购入产自油砂的燃料。
No. The two big tar-sands deposits are in Canada and Venezuela.
不会。两大主要的焦油沙矿位于加拿大和委内瑞拉境内。
Yellow beach umbrellas line the sands at a hotel on Phuket Island, Thailand.
黄色的遮阳伞在泰国普吉岛的旅馆边的沙滩上排成了一条线。
This fact has raised concerns about the impact of oil sands on climate change.
这一现实已经引发了对开采利用油砂矿对气候变化的影响方面的担忧。
They put sands with different colors inside a transparent bottle layer by layer.
他们一层一层的把不同颜色的沙子装入透明的玻璃瓶。
An estimated 32 billion barrels of oil could potentially exist in Utah's tar sands.
据估算，仅犹他州油砂矿的储量就高达320亿桶。
Extracting oil from tar sands causes more carbon emissions than traditional drilling.
从油砂中提炼石油比传统的钻取产生更多的碳排放。
The return on sources such as tar sands and biofuels like ethanol are in the single digits.
其他如沥青砂及乙醇等生物燃料的能源回报倍数仅有个位数。
If the price of natural gas rises, or that of oil falls, the oil sands will look less enticing.
如果天然气的价格上升，或者石油的价格下跌，油沙的吸引力将由此减低。
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry heavier crude oil produced from tar sands in Canada.
计划中的大号拱心石石油管道将用于运输产自加拿大油沙的重原油。
Tar sands take lots of energy to process, and therefore entail copious emissions of greenhouse gases.
加工焦油砂能耗大，因此就得排放大量的温室气体。
It also means the environmental costs of the sands' oil are not about to be reflected in their price.
这也意味着焦油沙石油的环境成本不会反映到它的价格上。
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this hourglass-shaped planetary nebula.
在这一酷似沙漏形状的星云内，“时间之沙”即将从中央星之中流逝殆尽。
It also dismissed as myth a widely held expectation that tar sands in Canada could fill the supply gap.
报告还驳斥了此前普遍抱有的神话般的期望，即加拿大的含油砂将能填补石油供应的缺口。
Time out of the rat race on the black sands of Perissa beach on the east coast of Santorini island.
在圣托里尼岛东岸的佩里萨黑沙海滩享受远离都市竞争的休假。
A desert village perches "on the edge of the hot sands like a small harbour on the edge of a great sea".
一个位于热沙边缘的沙漠上的村子就像大海边上的一个小港口。
From its birth in the sands of New Mexico, the atomic age they helped create is now sixty-five years old.
他们一手创建的原子时代，从新墨西哥州的沙漠诞生，到现在过去了65年。
From its birth in the sands of New Mexico, the atomic age they helped create is now sixty-five years old.
他们一手创建的原子时代，从新墨西哥州的沙漠诞生，到现在过去了65年。
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