... be in (get into) hot water (由于言行失检等)处于困境中 be dead in the water彻底失败,无可挽回 above water 脱离困境,摆脱债务 ...
双语例句
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She had dropped her phone inthewater and pretended to bedead, a tactic that required steely nerves because Breivik shot several apparent corpses just to make sure.
That essentially means that the only way to replace thewater that people take from theDead 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。
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But the most dramatic impacts can be seen inthe growth of coastal dead zones where excessive nutrients in the water - fueled by runoff of fertilizers - has suffocated or driven away ocean animals.