Nevertheless, when I scaled a high escarpment, I could see no volcanoes within a radius of several miles.

可是，我攀上座高耸的悬崖，半径几海里的圆周内望不见火山。

She stepped past Paul, lifted her binoculars, adjusted the oil lenses and studied the escarpment across from them.

她从保罗身边走过，举起双筒望远镜，调整了油镜，研究了他们对面的悬崖。

He looked north across a line of rocks, studying a distant escarpment.

他隔着排岩石向北望去，研究远处的悬崖。

A sweeping glance took in the sand around them, the rock escarpment perhaps two hundred meters away.

扫视了下他们周围的沙地，岩石悬崖两百米外。

He took a deep breath, looked up through the transparent end of the tent at the rock escarpment outlined against the stars.

他深吸口气，透过帐篷透明的端抬头看着星空映衬下的岩石峭壁。

" It'd keep a worm occupied for a time." She glanced at the stretch of moonlighted desert between them and the other escarpment.

“它会让蠕虫占据段时间。”她瞥了眼他们和另悬崖之间那片月光下的沙漠。

The stony escarpment upon which they stood had the contour of a man's face, and it was covered with furze as with a beard.

他们所站的石崖有脸的轮廓，上面长满了金雀花，就像胡须样。

It lay there full of moon-silvered waves—shadows of angles that lapsed into curves and, in the distance, lifted to the misted gray blur of another escarpment.

它躺那里，到处都是月光般的银色波浪——角的阴影逐渐变成曲线，远处，上升到另悬崖的迷雾般的灰色模糊。

Muscles reached a stage of mechanical aching that seemed to stretch out indefinitely, but Paul saw that the beckoning escarpment ahead of them had climbed higher.

肌肉达到了机械性疼痛的阶段，似乎无限期地伸展开来，但保罗看到他们面前那招手的悬崖已经爬得更高了。

The strong ascending air carried the rain-drops with it in its race up the escarpment, coming to him with such velocity that they stuck into his flesh like cold needles.

强劲的上升气流带着雨滴路冲上悬崖， 以如此之快的速度向他袭来， 以至于它们像冰冷的针样刺入他的肉体。

We're soon high up on the escarpment admiring the big-sky panorama across Hood Hill and Lake Gormire – the tramper allows us to go further and tackle far more challenging ground than a wheelchair could.

我们很快就登上了悬崖，欣赏着胡德山和戈迈尔湖的广阔天空——踏板车可以走得更远，比轮椅车更有挑战性。

On the edges of Calcutta, flanked by a smoking escarpment of the city's trash and ribboned by its highways, an Indigenous technology of 300 fish ponds cleans its water while producing its food.

加尔各答的边缘，两侧是冒着烟的城市垃圾悬崖， 高速公路环绕着 300 鱼塘， 采用本土技术生产食物的同时净化水源。

From the window of his room he could see, first, two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V. Towards the bottom, like liquid in a funnel, appeared the sea, gray and small.

从他房间的窗户，他首先可以看到两胆的悬崖像字母V样倾斜起。

From this house a little lane wound between the steep escarpments of the ravine till it reached the kiln, which faced down the miniature valley, commanding it as a fort might command a defile.

从这所房子开始，条小巷蜿蜒峡谷陡峭的悬崖之间，直到它到达窑炉，它面向微型山谷，控制着它，就像堡垒可能控制着条小溪样。

Paul took a deep breath, looked up at the moon-frosted escarpment, and quoted from the Kitab al-Ibar: " Travel by night and rest in black shade through the day." He looked at his mother.

保罗深吸口气，抬头看着被月光覆盖的悬崖，引用了 Kitab al-Ibar 的话：“夜间旅行，白天黑荫下休息。”他看着他的母亲。