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| 61. | Geologists agree that the risk of arsenic in deep aquifers is low, but before a few million such tubewells are dug, they need to be absolutely sure. |
| 地质学家认同较深那一层含砷的风险低，不过，在开凿几百万个深管式井泵之前，这件事必须绝对确认。 |
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| 62. | They built temples, dug grottoes, translated scriptures, painted frescoes and spread the Manichaeist creed and culture in the Turpan area. |
| 信仰摩尼教的回鹘人在吐鲁番地区建造寺院，开凿洞窟，翻译经典，绘制壁画，弘扬摩尼教教义和文化。 |
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| 63. | Only a small canal separates Africa from Asia. But before the Suez Canal was cut in 1869, Asia was also linked to Africa. |
| 把亚洲和非洲分隔开来的不过是一条不大的运河，而在这条苏伊士运河1869年开凿之前，亚洲与非洲也是连在一起的。 |
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| 64. | It was originally designed only as a Buddhist sanctuary, but, probably to no one's expectation, what was left to the posterity would be such a splendid and majestic legacy as a palace of art. |
| 这些洞窟开凿的原意，只是为参禅修炼提供一个静穆的场所。 大概谁也不曾料到会给后人留下一座如此辽阔而恢宏的艺术宫殿。 |
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| 65. | "The Dazu grottoes in Sichuan province is aiso well known. The grottoes were chiseled during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279). They consist of nearly 10,000 Buddhist statues," |
| 四川大足石窟也非常著名，它开凿于南宋王朝(公元1127年至1279年)，有大约10，000个石刻造象佛雕。 |
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| 66. | a wealth of painted clay statues and painted murals of a religious nature soon filled the grottoes. Such pious projects continued over the following 1000 years through 11 Chinese dynasties. |
| 很快，大量彩绘泥塑和彩绘壁画石窟被开凿，它们都具宗教特色。这一虔诚的艺术工程持续了1000年，历经11个朝代。 |
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| 67. | Should a motorway pass under or over a large waterway? Up till about 1960 the only alternative was bridging over or tunnelling under the waterway. |
| 直到1960年左右所能选择的方案只是水上架桥法或水下开凿隧道法。 |
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| 68. | In its light I could vaguely discern a few dozen men, who seemed pasted to the side of the towering cliff, drilling holes for dynamite charges. The holes were like the steps of a ladder to the sky. |
| ／顶着光带，隐隐糊糊可以看见几十名工人象贴在万丈绝壁上似的，打着炮眼，仿佛在开凿着登天的梯子。 我说：“成渝! |
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| -- 来源 -- 汉英文学 - 现代散文 - yezoulingguanxia |
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| 69. | In a period of over 1,000 years, every new arrival set to carve out a cave in an open space on the cliff on a sudden impulse. No one has ever made any demonstration and calculation based on structural mechanics. |
| 一千多年间，每一位后来者都是根据自已的灵感，在山崖上看中一块空白处随意开凿，没有谁去作过结构力学的论证和计算。 |
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| 70. | They'd prefer to think that the road they hacked across India's steep Patkai Range and down through the jungles of Burma to China during World War II is gone. |
| 他们宁愿相信二战期间他们所开凿的、于印度陡峭的帕特开山、由缅甸的热带雨林、后通往中国的那条道路已经不存在了。 |
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