He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.

他找到了房子，那是一座风木板平房，月租八十美元，可是在最后一分钟公司把他调到华盛顿去了，我也就只好一个人搬到郊外去住。

Due to a complex combination of erosion, weathering, and collapse, a massive height difference of more than 2,600 meters was formed between today's mountain top and the Emei Plain.

在 风化 崩塌等复杂作用下最终形成了今天山顶与峨眉平2600多米巨大高差。

They drop in the open and are eaten or left to rot or weather down to nothing.

它们倒在空旷地方，不是被吃掉，就是任凭腐烂或被风得一于二净。

We can best gain some idea of past time by knowing the agencies at work; and learning how deeply the surface of the land has been denuded, and how much sediment has been deposited.

通过了解工作中机构， 我们可以最好地了解过去时间；并了解土地表面被深度， 以及沉积了多少沉积物。

But both are greatly obscured by the forests and underbrush growing upon them, and by the denuding action of rains and melting snows, etc.

但是两者都被森林和上面生长灌木丛，以及水和融雪等作用大大遮蔽了。

Many cases could be given of the lower beds of a formation having been upraised, denuded, submerged, and then re-covered by the upper beds of the same formation—facts, showing what wide, yet easily overlooked, intervals have occurred in its accumulation.

可以举出一个地层下部地层被抬升、 、淹没， 然后被同一地层上部地层重新覆盖许多案例— — 事实表明，在其积累过程中发生了多么宽阔但容易被忽视间隔.

As Lyell has well remarked, the extent and thickness of our sedimentary formations are the result and the measure of the denudation which the earth's crust has elsewhere undergone.

正如莱尔所说那样， 我们沉积岩层范围和厚度是地壳在其他地方经历结果和衡量标准。