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

可是，我攀上一座高耸悬崖，半径几海里圆周内望不见火山。

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，双筒望远镜，调整了油镜，研究了他们对面悬崖。

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

他隔着一排岩石向北望去，研究远处悬崖。

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

扫视了一下他们周围沙地，岩石悬崖大约在两百米外。

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

他深吸一口气，透帐篷透明一端抬头看着星空映衬下岩石峭壁。

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

“它会让一蠕虫占据一段时间。”她瞥了一眼他们和另一个悬崖之间那片月光下沙漠。

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.

他们所站石崖有一个人脸轮廓，上面长满了金雀花，就像胡须一样。

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.

它躺在那里，到处都是月光银色波浪——角阴影逐渐变成曲线，在远处，上升到另一个悬崖迷雾色模糊。

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阶段，似乎无限期地伸展开来，但保罗看到他们面前那招手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.

强劲上升气流带着雨滴一路冲上悬崖， 以如此之快速度向他袭来， 以至于它们像冰冷针一样刺入他肉体。

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.

在加尔各答边缘，两侧是冒着烟城市垃圾悬崖， 高速公路环绕着 300 个鱼塘， 采用本土技术在生产食物同时净化水源。

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.

从他房间窗户，他首先可以看到两个大胆悬崖像字母V一样倾斜在一。

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，一条小巷蜿蜒在峡谷陡峭悬崖之间，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一条小溪一样。

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.

保罗深吸一口气，抬头看着被月光覆盖悬崖，引用了 Kitab al-Ibar 话：“夜间旅行，白天在黑荫下休息。”他看着他母亲。