The biggest concern of pumping out water from this deep is the gradual settling down of the land surface.

从这一深度取水最大问题就是陆地表面会逐渐下陷。

And here's the really neat part. As a frog swallows, its eyes sink through openings in its skull and help force the food down its throat. What prince can do that?

真正碉堡的地方在这里，当一只青蛙吞咽的时候，它的眼睛可以下陷穿过头骨的缝隙中，帮助它将食物挤过喉咙。哪个王子能做到这点儿啊？

Put some stars and planets on the stage, and it sags underneath them.

把一些星球放到这个舞台上，舞台就会在它们之下下陷。

Just as you step onto the sagging front porch, the door creaks open.

当你正踏上下陷的前廊时，屋子的们嘎吱一声开了。

The seafloor kept sinking, and its significantly steeper slope took us to greater depths.

地面总是往下陷，斜度更是明显，把我们拉到最深的海底。

Starting in the 1930s, water was pumped out from underground to support industrial development, compacting the earth and causing the city to subside.

从 20 世纪 30 年开始，为了支持工业发展，人们从地下抽水，压实了土地，导致城市下陷。

Her breathing now imperceptibly raised the cotton covering. Big tears lay in the corner of the half-closed eyelids, through whose lashes one could see two pale sunken pupils; the plaster stuck on her cheek drew the skin obliquely.

现在，也觉察不到她的呼吸还能不能使棉被上下起伏。 大颗的眼泪留在她眼皮半开的眼角里，睫毛当中露出了两个暗淡无光、深深下陷的眼珠；在脸上，使她皮肤绷紧，把脸也拉歪了。

Within 75 years, most houses' supporting beams have rotted and sagged, and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards.

在75年内，大多数房屋的支撑梁都会腐烂并下陷，由此产生的坍塌的堆积物现在都成为了当地啮齿动物和蜥蜴的家园。

Having been forced down under the land, some of the slabs of melting sea floor continue to fall, their weight pulling more sea floor behind them.

在被挤压到大地下面以后，一些熔化的海床会继续下沉，它们的重量牵拉了更多的海床一同下陷。

" Anything that moves, you're on your last nerve, " said Anchorage resident Lyn Matthews, whose home suffered structural damage, including a sunken foundation.

" 任何东西移动，都会让你精神紧张。" 安克雷奇居民林·马修斯说道，马修斯的家遭到了结构性破坏，地基出现了下陷。

He was falling – or rather, slowly sinking – down through the place where the floor should have been.

他正在下坠——或者更确切地说，慢慢地往下陷——穿过本该是地板的地方。

Imagine walking and then sinking slowly into the ground until you're stuck.

想象一下，你正走着走着，地面缓缓下陷，直到你被困住动弹不得。

Its long legs and feet carried it across the sand without sinking.

它那长长的腿和脚让它在沙地上行走而不下陷。

If you have " fallen arches, " your arches do touch the ground and that can cause additional problems. A " clubfoot" (clubfoot) is a condition that some people are born with, in which one of the feet is twisted.

您有“足弓下陷”，您的足弓确实会接触地面， 这可能会导致其他问题。 “马蹄内翻足” （马蹄内翻足）是某些人天生就有的一种情况， 其中一只脚扭曲。

When this much water is pumped out of the aquifer below ground, the clay between the pockets of water collapses, and the ground starts to deflate like a leaky air mattress.

当地下水从地下含水层中被大量抽取时，水层间的黏土会塌陷，地面便开始像漏气的充气床垫一样下陷。

I didn't feel like my bed was sinking, but I, I could move and I moved back just like this person did against the headboard while having this feeling.

我感觉床并没有下陷，但我能动，于是我像那个人一样， 在这种感觉中向后挪动， 紧床头板。

The weight of all that ice pushed down on Earth’s poles a little, and now that the ice is mostly gone, the poles are bouncing back up.

所有那些冰的压力使地球两极稍微下陷，而现在冰大多消失了， 两极正在反弹回升。

There were some wild videos taken by motorists on I-95 during the fire, probably only minutes before the bridge fell, with the road deck sagging significantly.

在火灾发生时， 有司机在I-95高速公路上拍摄了一些疯狂的视频，很可能就在大桥倒塌前几分钟，路面已经明显下陷。

There are dim sconce lights spaced along the walls, and the ceiling is made up of those sunken square panels you find in every office building.

墙壁上间隔装有昏暗的壁灯，天花板是由你在每个办公楼都能看到的那种下陷的方形面板组成的。

Frequent storms and monsoons are aggravated by shifts in the earth's tectonic plates that cause the ground to sink, making the land susceptible to flooding.

频繁的风暴和季风加剧了地球板块变动导致的地层下陷，使得土地更容易遭受洪水侵袭。