8. It was apparent that the glaciation occurred in the relatively recent past because the drift was soft, like freshly deposited sediment.
很明显冰川作用就发生在相对不远的过去，因为漂流物很软，像新鲜的沉积物。
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9. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile.
1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。
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10. Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes.
地球内部因放射而产生的热量为板块运动、大陆漂移、造山运动和地震提供了能量。
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11. This drift has been studied extensively in many animals and in biological activities ranging from the hatching of fruit fly eggs to wheel running by squirrels.
12. Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica's less colorful icebergs.
13. Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.
14. As geologists mapped glacial deposits in the late nineteenth century, they became aware that there were several layers of drift, the lower ones corresponding to earlier ice ages.
15. Along the east coast of the United States, the southernmost advance of this ice is recorded by the enormous sand and drift deposits of the terminal moraines that form Long Island and Cape Cod.
沿着美国东海岸，最南边的冰川运动被大量的沙子和终碛石的漂流沉积物（形成了长岛和科德角）所记录下来。
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16. Sun clocks worked, of course, only on clear days; water clocks misbehaved when the temperature fell toward freezing, to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging.
19. A nine-year-old boy was trapped in a snow drift.
一个9岁的男孩陷在雪堆里了。
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20. Here and there a drift across the road was wet and slushy.
路上有零零散散的积雪，满是泥泞。
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21. My German isn't very good, but I got the drift of what she said.
我的德语不太好，但我大致明白她说的意思。
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22. As rural factories lay off workers, people drift toward the cities.
随着乡镇企业裁员，人们陆续移向城市。
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23. Amy thought she caught the faintest drift of Isabel's flowery perfume.
艾米觉得她闻到了伊莎贝尔身上飘来的一丝极微弱的带花香的香水味。
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24. Too late he divined her "drift".
当他明白她的用意时，为时已晚。
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25. Your eyes drift separately and slowly, and you're hard to wake up.
你的眼球运动时断时续，并且很慢，你也很难叫醒。
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26. Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again.
不久，汤姆又不知不觉地回到了现实生活中来。
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27. If the ash cloud were to drift in another direction, flights could be sent around or above it.
届时如果火山灰云飘向另一个方向，飞机可能会被指示绕开或在其上方飞行。
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28. Guided by science, we do not drift off course anymore but further pursue other sophisticated technologies with purpose.
在科学的指导下，我们不再迷失方向，而是更有目的地进一步追求其他的精良技术。
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29. To quote one medical opinion, "Thousands of people drift through life suffering from the effects of too little sleep; the reason is not that they can't sleep."
引用一种医学观点，“成千上万的人一生都在睡眠不足的折磨下苟延残喘；原因不是他们睡不着。”
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30. To quote one medical opinion, "Thousands of people drift through life suffering from the effects of too little sleep; the reason is not that they can't sleep."
