So we already have an 18-foot vertical scarp at that location.

所以在那个位置已经有一个 18 英尺垂直陡坡。

Then he slid backward around a scarp of rock.

然后他绕着一块岩石向后滑去。

A product of the colliding Indian and Asian tectonic plates, the wild range knuckles up in parallel white scarps, each carved by plunging river valleys coursing north-south.

作为印度板块和亚洲板块碰撞产物，这片荒野形成了平行白色陡坡，每一道陡坡都由南北走向河谷雕刻而成。

So last spring, when we got out with spring road opening in late March, we had about an 18-vertical-foot scarp that dropped down.

所以去年春天，当在 3 月下旬开放春季道路，有一个 18 英尺高陡坡掉了下来。

Paul stared around them, saw the rock scarp lifting out of the desert like a beach rising from the sea, wind-carved palisades beyond.

保罗环顾四周，看到岩石悬崖从沙漠中升起，就像从海中升起海滩，远处是风蚀栅栏。

The boy had stepped beyond the solid ground; the heather now gave way, and down he rolled over the scarp of grey sand to the very foot of the man.

男孩子一脚踩空，跨到坑边以外，石南塌了下去，他就从灰沙石壁上滚到了那人脚下。