These fossils were deposited in a river system.

这些化石堆积在一个河流底部的淤泥中。

Makes something sacred out of the lives of the squalid.

他终于体会到了莲出淤泥的真谛！

It grows deep in the silt and is difficult to dig out.

这种植在湖水面深深的淤泥中，要想挖到并不是容易的事。

It was shocking for me to discover how little I knew about sludge.

真没想到我对淤泥的知识竟然这么贫乏。

You can see the mark of the mud and we pretty much just went in there and tried to clear it all out.

你可以到淤泥的痕迹，而我进去，试图清除一切。

We have no idea how it got there but it's been polished and proudly restored to its original place on the boat.

它是如何掉进淤泥里的，我无从得知，不过我已经给它抛光并骄傲地将它重新装回了船上本的位置。

So yeah, I don't know what you would call that.

很难用言语形容这份淤泥的状态。

Reports say it was found eight meters deep under mud on the seafloor.

报道称，这个记录器在海床8米深的淤泥中被找到。

He was passing over vast expanses of black mud now, which swirled murkily as he disturbed the water.

现在水底是大片大片的黑色淤泥，湖水因为他的搅动泛起了黑乎乎的水涡。

Workers using heavy equipment have tried to clear dirt around the large ship.

工人使用重型设备试图清除这艘大船周围的淤泥。

I'm going to show you a little bit of this mud.

我来给你这里的淤泥。

The mud was up to her neck.

淤泥快淹没她的脖子了。

He swam on for what felt like at least twenty minutes. He was passing over vast expanses of black mud now, which swirled murkily as he disturbed the water. Then, at long last, he heard a snatch of haunting mersong.

他又游了至少二十分钟。现在水底是大片大片的黑色淤泥，湖水因为他的搅动泛起了黑乎乎的水涡。过了好久，他终于听见了人鱼那令人难忘的歌声。

The yellow river remained in its bed in deference to Yu the Great, only overflowing afterwards to a certain point on either side to help instead of harm farmers by spreading fertile silt.

黄河顺着大禹的意思留在河床里，只是后来在两边的某一点上泛滥，通过传播肥沃的淤泥来帮助而不是伤害农民。

Grawp's lopsided mouth was gaping stupidly; they could see his bricklike yellow teeth glimmering in the half-light, his dull sludge-coloured eyes narrowed as he squinted down at the creatures at his feet. Broken ropes trailed from both ankles.

格洛普傻乎乎地张开歪斜的嘴巴；他可以到他那砖头似的黄牙在半明半暗中闪着微光。他眯着那双呆滞的淤泥色的眼睛，低头盯着脚边的这些动。断了的绳索拖在他两只脚脖子的后面。

Larger rocks and pebbles were already left behind upstream, while smaller sediments like silt and clay continue to be swept along by the weakened current and are deposited further from shore.

较大的岩石和卵石已经被留在上游，而较小的淤泥和粘土等沉积则继续被减弱的水流冲刷，在离岸边较远的地方沉积。

When you first walk in, what you notice is that you're seeing mostly frozen silt blown in off the glaciers off of the Alaska range somewhere between about 45,000 years ago and about 10,000 years ago.

当你第一次走进这里，你会注意到的是，你到的大部分是冰冻的淤泥，是从阿拉斯加山脉的冰川吹来的，大约在四万五千年到一万年前之间。

The Colorado River was named by Spanish travelers, who called it 'colorado, ' or red-colored, because of the reddish silt the river carried down from the red rocks in the mountains there.

科罗拉多河是由西班牙旅行家命名的，他叫它“科罗拉多” 意为“红色的”，因为河水里含有从山间红色岩石冲刷来的红色淤泥。

Of course, they also absorb and store carbon – in lawns, in the bark of trees, in the sludge at the bottom of garden ponds, in soil, in leaf litter and compost.

当然，它也吸收和储存碳——在草坪中、在树皮中、在花园池塘底部的淤泥中、在土壤中、在落叶和堆肥中。

Reports say the dam collapse was caused by heavy rains and led to intense flooding filled with silt, destroying nearby villages and making rescue efforts difficult.

报道称，大坝决堤是由暴雨引起的。充满淤泥的强烈洪水，摧毁了附近的村庄，使救援工作变得困难。