The ship lay at anchor two miles off the rocky coast.

船在离岩岸两英里处抛锚停泊。

The land dropped precipitously down to the rocky shore.

地面陡降，下方是布满岩石的岸边。

He began a career in journalism, working for the Rocky Mountain News.

他开始从事新闻事业，供职于落基山新闻报。

They found a spot on a rocky platform where they could pitch their tents.

他们在一个岩石平台上找到了一处可以搭帐篷的地方。

A walker broke his arms, legs, and pelvis yesterday when he plunged 80 feet from a rocky pinnacle.

一位步行者昨天从80英尺高的尖锥形岩石上摔下来，摔断了胳膊、腿和骨盆。

The eagle was floating above the rocky crags.

老鹰在岩石峭壁上翱翔。

Loose collections of these ices and small rocky particles form into comets.

这些冰和小岩石粒的松散集合形成了彗星。

No man has ever set foot on that rocky island; it's impossible to land there.

没人涉足那个岩岛，不可能在那儿上岸。

I was working the overnight shift in a remote hospital in the Rocky Mountains.

我在落基山脉一家偏远的医院值夜班。

Mercury is known to have a high density in comparison with other rocky planets.

众所周知，与其他岩石行星相比，水星的密度很高。

Five hundred miles west of Iceland, he and his men reached an icy rocky mass of land.

在冰岛以西500英里的地方，他和他的同伴到达了一片冰雪覆盖、遍布岩石的广阔土地。

"The galaxy has an inner clutch of rocky, sort of terrestrial-like planets," Butler says.

巴特勒说：“这个星系内部有一堆岩石，有点像类地行星。”

On rocky hillsides, there are wooden huts and in wooded valleys, there are towns of brick.

在多岩石的山坡上，有木制的小屋，而在树木繁茂的山谷里，有砖砌的城镇。

Earth is a rocky planet where there is liquid water, which is necessary for life to exist.

地球是一个岩石行星，这里有液态水，这是生命存在的必要条件。

They are a rocky, lonely spot, but they are also one of the most unusual places in the world.

这是一个多岩石的、孤独的地方，但也是世界上最不寻常的地方之一。

Its skin resembles that of another impressive predator and acts as camouflage on rocky seafloors.

它的皮肤与另一种令人印象深刻的捕食者相似，在多岩石的海底充当伪装。

These asteroids are like the terrestrial planets, in that they're composed mostly of rocky material and metals.

这些小行星像类地行星一样，主要由岩石物质和金属构成。

This Wednesday, a team tries to prove that people lived in the rocky hills of their area thousands of years ago.

本周三，一个研究小组试图证明，数千年前他们所在地区的岩石山上曾有人居住过。

The brave group of colonists finally had to land at Plymouth on the rocky coast of Massachusetts in December 1620.

1620年12月，这群勇敢的殖民者最终不得不在马萨诸塞州岩石海岸的普利茅斯登陆。

The rocky peaks were flaming in the brilliant light, the snow-fields glowed and rosy clouds were floating overhead.

在明亮的光下，岩石山峰好像在燃烧着，雪原闪耀着光芒，玫瑰色的云彩漂浮在天空上。

The implication is that the gases in the mantle came not from the sun but from the early accretion of rocky material.

这意味着地幔中的气体不是来自太阳，而是来自岩石物质的早期积累。

The probes have also made the scientists think that under its surface, Europa has a rocky core giving off volcanic heat.

这些探测器还让科学家们认为，在木卫二的表面之下，有一个释放出火山的热量的岩石内核。

In the rusty red deserts of South Africa, steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth.

在南非铁锈般红色的沙漠中，被称为岛山的陡峭岩石山丘从平原上拔地而起，就像大地之骨。

One chilly night when I was hiking in the Rocky Mountains with some students, I mentioned that we were going to cross a mountain stream.

一个寒冷的夜晚，当我和几个学生在落基山脉徒步旅行时，我提到我们将要渡过一条山间小溪。

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than earth.

它的表面大部分是在过去十亿年里形成的，使得它比地球以外的任何岩石行星都更新鲜活跃。

If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.

如果今天发生这样的地震，从落基山脉到大西洋都会有震感，而且会把密西西比河谷的大部分城市夷为平地。

The rocky views glimpsed by the Nearer Nine and other Russian landers suggested a tortured volcanic history that was confirmed in the early 1990s by the American Magellan orbiter.

靠近地球的9号探测器和其他俄罗斯着陆器所看到的岩石图，暗示了一段痛苦的火山历史，这一点在上世纪90年代初得到了美国麦哲伦轨道飞行器的证实。

A titanic impact could have stripped away a portion of its rocky mantle, leaving behind a metallic core whose density is out of proportion with the original ratio of rock to metal.

超大碰撞可能剥去了水星的一部分岩石地幔，留下了一个金属核心，其密度与原来的岩石与金属的比例相比大得不成比例。

We must imagine the early Earth as a mixture of rocky materials, metals, and trapped gases, subject to constant bombardment by smaller planetesimals and without much of an atmosphere.

我们必须想象早期的地球是岩石材料、金属和封闭气的混合物，受到较小的星子的持续轰击，没有多少大气。

Thus, our picture of Venus at around the time life was getting started on earth is one of warm oceans, probably rich with organic molecules splashing around rocky shores and volcanic vents.

因此，在地球上生命开始的时候，我们所看到的金星是一片温暖的海洋，这片海洋可能富含在岩石海岸和火山口周围飞溅的有机分子。