LAST summer, on the Atlantic coast of France, Charlemagne was introduced to a fine beach game: building big sand-walls near the shoreline in the face of a rising tide.
去年夏天，法国大西洋沿岸，一种有趣的沙滩游戏加入了查理曼大帝元素：涨潮时在海岸线上建一堵沙墙。
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Nasa also wants to fly the shuttle Atlantis this summer with a year's worth of supplies to tide over the space station until commercial resupply vehicles are operational.
When he was young, he would get up early each summer morning to beg his mother to take him to the beach to play and watch the ebb and flow of the tide.