1. Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.
    钻井平台需要经常修理，潜水员常常要在水面100英尺以下摸黑工作，他们曾在工作时被撞到他们身上的大鱼吓得惊惶失措。

2. One thing is certain -- the balance of nature on this water planet is easily upset.
    有一点是可以肯定的- 这个有水的行星上的自然平衡是十分脆弱的。

3. The only sound that could be heard was made by water which dripped continuously from the high dome above them.
    唯一的可以听见的声响是高高的圆顶上不间断地滴水的嘀嗒声。

4. The warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea;
    海底热的输油管道附近的温暖的海水；

5. I´m convinced that drinking a lot of water is the best way to cure colds.
    我确信喝很多水是治疗感冒的最有效的方法.

6. In places where the water is not potable, they set up purifying systems.
    在水无法饮用的地方，人们设立净化系统。

7. In a salt water solution, the water is the solvent and the salt is the solute.
    在食盐溶液中，水是溶剂，盐是溶质。

8. It is animals and plants which lived in or near water whose remains are most likely to be preserved,
    只有生活在水中或水边的动植物尸体最有可能被保存下来，

9. It ´flies´, therefore, but it cannot fly higher----its action depends on the surface, water or ground, over which it rides.
    这样，船就能飞了，但飞不高。它的飞行限决于它所悬浮的水面或地面。

10. Intermittent tap-water supplies should be regarded as particularly suspect.
    断断续续的水管应该被视为是非常可疑的。