单词Dead Sea
na.: 死海
死海
For years, ripples at the surface of the Dead Sea hinted there was something mysterious going on beneath its salt-laden waters.
几年以来，死海表面的涟漪暗示了它富含盐分的水下正在发生着一些神奇的事情。
We sipped our drinks looking down at the canyon and over the Dead Sea toward the dusky hills of Jordan; the children stopped complaining.
我们一边饮茶，一边看着下面幽深的峡谷，还有死海那一边笼罩在暮色中的约旦群山。此情此景，孩子们也不再抱怨了。
That essentially means that the only way to replace the water that people take from the Dead Sea would be to manually put water back in.
这正说明了补充人类从死海中取走的水的唯一办法是人为的补充水源。
In name only, the Dead Sea may not sound like the most charming place in the world to visit.
单从其名字来看，死海似乎并不是世界上最值得游览的胜地。
Dead Sea fruit: something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
看起来美丽，充满希望，可是实际上不过是幻影与令人失望的东西。
One last question: Suppose, Lord Russell, this film were to be looked at by our descendants like a dead-sea scroll in a thousand years time.
最后一个问题：罗素勋爵，假定这段录像，将被我们的后人看到，如同死海古卷一般，在一千年后被人看见。
If you didn"t know anything about it, a place with a name like the Dead Sea might not sound very appealing.
如果你对它一无所知，那么一个叫做死海的地方听上去或许不会那么吸引人。
Due to its salinity of over 22 per cent, swimmers can float freely on the surface -- much as they do in the Dead Sea in the Middle East.
由于湖内含盐量超过22%，所以游泳者可以自由自在地漂浮在水面，就像漂浮在中东的死海一样。
I could tell from the surrounding mountains that we were on the bottom of a long dead sea.
我能从我们周围的山中确定我们正位于一个死海的底部。
Forensic science has cut through the debate to reveal that at least a third of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written at Qumran.
现代法医科学为解决这一分歧带来了曙光，通过研究表明至少有三分之一的《死海古卷》是在昆兰写成的。