Then, in order to release the stored water, gates in the breakwater are opened.

然，为了释放存储的水，防波堤的门会打开。

Or thinks that by 2050 the habitat around the breakwaters will be fully revitalized.

或者认为，到2050，防波堤周围的栖息地将得到充分恢复。

It pours powerfully out of the lagoon, driving the turbines in the breakwater in the opposite direction and again generating thousands of megawatts of electricity.

它会强有力地冲出泻湖，反方向驱动防波堤的水轮机，然产生几亿瓦特的电力。

If anything else sinks here, the mole's blocked and we're stuffed.

要是有船沉了 防波堤就堵住了 我们就被困住了。

Spiral Jetty's strange markings deliberately reference prehistoric architecture - as well as American, Indian petroglyphs found in Utah, early spirals are found in many places in the Americas.

《螺旋形防波堤》的奇怪标记故意参考了史前建筑，以及在犹他州发现的美国、印度岩画，早期螺旋在美洲的许多地方都发现了。

Over 50% of the shoreline in Sydney Harbor has some sort of structure built upon it, whether it be a seawall, wharf or pontoon.

悉尼港超过50%的海岸线上都有某种建筑，无论是防波堤、码头还是浮桥。

They're called sea hives because they look like beehives with these little holes and they're designed to be artificial breakwater so that the waves will break offshore on the sea hives like a few miles offshore.

它们被称为海蜂箱，因为它们看起来像有这些小洞的蜂箱，它们被设计成造防波堤，这样海浪就会在离岸几英里的海蜂箱上破裂。

After ruling out possible other uses for the wall—like defense against enemies, or corralling animals—the scientists determined that the formation was actually an ancient seawall, the oldest known example in the world.

排除这座墙的其他可能用途之——比如防范敌或围捕动物——科学家们判定该结构是古代防波堤，是全世界已知最古老的范例。

The fact that only two people died—compared with 326 in the earlier storm—is testament to the tidal barriers built in Britain over the past few decades.

和1953死亡326的情况相比，这场灾难员伤亡大大减少。原因是，在过去几十里，英国修建了大量的防波堤。

It's just that none of the walls and breakers and everything that was in place to protect the people along the coast at the time, was up to what came that day.

只是当时用来保护海岸民的防护墙、防波堤和一切设施都无法应对那天的情况。

He said officials were investigating why a 170-meter stretch of the 2.3-kilometer-long wall broke -- even though it was built only a few years ago.

他表示，工作员正在调查长达2.3公里的防波堤为何有170米坍塌--虽然是前几才建的。

The Carnatic anchored at the quay near the custom–house, in the midst of a crowd of ships bearing the flags of all nations.

卡尔纳蒂克号穿过挂着各国旗帜的无数船只，在港口防波堤和海关仓库附近的横滨码头靠了岸。

The landing gear struck a seawall at the end of the airport runway, causing the tail end of the plane to break off.

着陆装置撞上了飞机跑道末端的防波堤，造成飞机尾部折断。

Since much of Staten Island was initially built on wetlands, intense rainfall could easily flood neighborhoods—something a sea wall can't prevent.

由于斯塔顿岛的大部分地区最初都建在湿地上，强降雨很容易淹没周边地区——这是防波堤无法阻止的。

Sea levels are going up, so there's been long-term plans to establish a coastal seawall that would reduce some of that.

由于海平面不断上升，该市制定了一个长期计划，修建海岸防波堤来缓解该问题。

But eventually, the sea beat the barrier.

但最终，大海还是淹没了这座防波堤。

Barriers, or seawalls, pumps and other controls blocked major flooding as the sea level rose sharply during the powerful storm.

在强风暴期间，海平面急剧上升，屏障或者说防波堤、水泵以及其他控制系统阻挡了大规模洪水。

A seawall was built to protect the site from powerful currents, and workers operated in 20-minute shifts between tides.

防波堤也被建了起来，以保护该地区不受强大水流的影响，工作员在潮汐中轮班工作，每轮班 20 分钟。

13.proceed to entrance of breakwater for orders

开进防波堤的入口即为指示。

Funded by a Federal Disaster Relief grant and designed by Scape, a landscaping architecture firm, the Living Breakwaters Project is meant to safeguard part of New York City's coast line.

生命防波堤项目由美国联邦救灾基金资助，景观设计公司设计，旨在保护纽约市海岸线的一部分。