Carry a book with you at all times can actually work, too - providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

“随时带本书在边”这种方式也能奏效，前提是在足够多的时间里你都沉浸在阅读中，从而让阅读成为你的常态，只是在你需要处理事务的时候才把从书上暂时移开，之后再次专心阅读。

A slope can describe a surface or area that is not level.

斜坡可以形容表层或某个区域，这个表层或区域不是水平的。

Those bacteria snack on nutrients that float down from the surface—so-called marine snow.

这些细菌以从海面上落下被称为海洋雪的营养物为食。

But it was all on the surface.

但是这一切都是表面现象。

Most of the animals and plants living on the surface will begin to die.

大多数生在地表的动植物将开始死亡。

The exterior surface of the house was bleached by the sunlight.

房屋的外表因阳光的照射而褪色。

And when did all these people come to rest on the surface?

这些人又是什么时候来到街道上的？

Surface level cravings are merely manifestations of our deeper underlying motives.

表层的渴望只是我们更深层的潜在动机的表现。

And surface area limits how much body heat you can dissipate.

然而表面面积决体的散热。

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

当2002年时，公司在弗农买下佛蒙特州仅有的核电厂，一个日渐老化的反应堆，这场争议便已浮出水面。

Frost are ice crystals on a frozen surface.

霜就是冻结在地面上的冰晶。

More and more of these glacier-fed rivers are merging together and burrowing through the surface.

越来越多源自冰川的河流汇集并在表层下穿过。

Squid shoot up from the depths to feed near the surface.

乌贼从深海游上来靠近海面寻找食物。

Valentine, however, did not become a preeminent Silicon Valley investor by relying on surface appearances.

当然，如果仅仅以貌取人，瓦伦丁也不可能成为硅谷的顶尖投资者。

But now, places have been found on earth that are in total blackness, such as caves several miles beneath the surface, and bacteria, primitive forms of life, have been seen there.

但是现在人们在地球上一些完全暗无天日的地方也发现了细菌等原始的生命形式，比如地面几英里以下的洞穴中。

Back in 1909, a layer of bricks was laid on top of the rock and tar surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

在1909年，一层砖块被铺在了印第安纳波利斯赛车道石头和沥青的表面。

Tragically, the pandemic brought to the surface the intense and glaring divisiveness in our society.

可悲的是，这一流行病暴露了我们社会中严重和明显的分歧。

Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface. Surrounded by open ocean, it is also vulnerable.

不同于浮动冰架，崩裂时几乎不对海平面造成任何影响。当与基岩相连的大冰块分崩离析时，将会撞击覆盖海面的冰原。由于冰原的四周都被海洋包围，所以十分脆弱。

]surface the product as much as possible.

就是让这个产品尽可能多地显露出来。

And when I surfaced, the story came full circle.

当我返回水面时，仿佛历史重演。