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。
After thinking carefully, Li and his wife made up their minds to fight against the sands.
经过仔细考虑，李和他的妻子决定与沙子斗争。
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。
"Wally from Wallis Sands," she said.
她说：“因为沃力是来自沃利斯海滩的。”
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。
The water gradually percolated down through the sands.
水渐渐从沙子里渗漏下去。
Mineral sands, such as zircon, sit under a tarpaulin.
油布覆盖着锆石之类矿产。
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。
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。
Mr Lanier also had access to the well-equipped computer centre at White Sands.
还帮助拉尼尔获得在白沙中心使用装备先进的计算机的权利。
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。
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。
True, alternative sources, like oil from Canada’s tar sands, have continued to grow.
确实，替换能源在不断增长，如加拿大从焦油砂中开采油。
Best of all, the oil sands are in Canada, a hearteningly moderate and stable country.
更重要的是，这些油沙存在于加拿大――一个气候温和、社会稳定的令人行动的国家。
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。
Where oil sands are close to the surface, they are extracted in large open pit mines.
那里的油砂离地表很近，可以从巨大的露天矿井里直接抽出来。
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。
Unlike Wells designed to pump crude, oil sands don't have the same production decline rate.
因为钻探原油的油井产量是递减的，但含油砂却没有这种产量递减率。
He was notoriously pugnacious, but Mr Sands shows he could also be warm and even funny.
他出了名地好斗，但詹德斯表演的品特也可以是温和的甚至滑稽的。
One such war-time service was held on the black sands of Iwo Jima more than sixty years ago.
六十多年前，一个这样的战时仪式在硫磺岛的黑色沙滩里举行。
The industry has run ads featuring ordinary workers talking up the wonders of the oil sands.
油砂业界也推出有特色的宣传广告，通过普通工人的口大谈油砂矿产生的奇迹。
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。
Dante, writing about that time, put usurers amid the fiery sands of the seventh circle of Hell.
但丁在那时写道，“将高利贷主”置于第七层地狱的火沙之中。
Dante, writing about that time, put usurers amid the fiery sands of the seventh circle of Hell.
但丁在那时写道，“将高利贷主”置于第七层地狱的火沙之中。
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