Geologists therefore wondered whether the friction between the plates was being reduced by pockets of pressurized water within the fault that push the plates away from each other.
因此，地质学家们想知道，断层内部的加压水袋是否会使板块之间的摩擦力减小，从而使板块彼此远离。
2
He stood at a table where he poured out a glass of water and a glass of sake in front of two plates, one of white rice and one of sea salt.
他站在桌子上，向两块木板上撒一杯水，接着又撒一杯清酒。两块木板，一块上面铺着大米，另一块铺着海盐。
3
The water from the drums tasted like hot metallic tea, and to cool it for drinking, we filled tin dinner plates and set them in the shade of the acacia.