The Ohio River has begun receding, after cresting at its highest level in almost 20 years.

俄亥俄河开始退潮，在这之前海平面升高到了将近20年的最高值。

Its cresting front segments threw a sandwave that would sweep across his knees.

它的顶峰前段抛的沙浪会扫过他的膝盖。

The worm came on like some great sandfish, cresting the surface, its rings rippling and twisting.

蠕虫像条巨大的沙鱼现，爬上水面，它的年轮扭动着涟漪。

It became a mound of cresting sand that curved away through a saddle in the dunes.

它变成了堆沙丘，弯曲穿过沙丘的马鞍。

It is, in fact, the climax itself. A storm surge of churning sensation, cresting and falling as if the marble had been molten.

事实上，这就是高潮，场汹涌澎湃的情感风暴在她内心激荡翻腾，好像连大理石也要融化了。

And this is just one system where the water is trying to recede where in others, it's still cresting.

这只是个系统，其中的水正试图退去，在其他地方，它仍然是峰顶。

Even the particles we do see are thought to be just visible blips of energy fields that permeate the entire universe, like waves cresting above an invisible ocean.

甚至我们真实看到的粒子也被认为只是渗透整个宇宙的能量场的可见光点，就像波浪在看不见的海洋上翻腾。

A mound-in-motion ran parallel to their rock island—moonlit ripples, sand waves, a cresting burrow almost level with Paul's eyes at a distance of about a kilometer.

个运动中的土丘与他们的岩石岛平行——光下的涟漪、沙浪、个几乎与保罗的眼睛齐平的顶部洞穴，距离大约公里。

Soon " the world rushed in" : the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the birth-control pill, the cresting of the movement for Black civil rights.

很快，“世人都涌了进来”: 古巴导弹危机、约翰·肯尼迪遇刺、避孕药、黑人民权运动迎来高潮。

It appeared to be more than half a league long, and the rise of the sandwave at its cresting head was like the approach of a mountain.

它似乎有半里格多长，在它的顶峰处掀起的沙浪就像座山的逼近。

Where the Duke pointed, crescent dune tracks spread shadow ripples toward the horizon and, running through them as a level line stretching into the distance, came an elongated mount-in-motion—a cresting of sand.

在公爵所指的地方， 新形的沙丘轨迹向地平线散布阴影涟漪，穿过它们作为条延伸到远处的水平线， 现了个细长的运动山——沙顶。