Indeed before the age of tourism not many littoral folk learned to swim ; the risk of drowning was too high .
在旅游业兴起之前,没有多少沿岸的居民主动下海学习游泳,被淹死的几率太高了。
Sand actually flows up and down our shorelines , by the billions of tons , and often there 's a net direction to this flow , known as " littoral drift " or " longshore transport . "
The two leaders have temporarily patched up their spat over mr sarkozy 's planned mediterranean union , a glorified club that he originally wanted to create for all countries on the mediterranean littoral ( ie , not germany ) .
The u. s. strategy includes an expansion of training exercises in other parts of the region to include newer participants , such as cambodia and malaysia , in some programs , as well as the deployment of new hardware , including littoral combat ships in singapore .
When sand from further east falls into the mobile ship channel , the corps dredges it out to keep the channel clear and then , dauphin island residents and some scientists contend , dumps it in spots far enough away that the sand is lost to the littoral drift .
New ships , including a destroyer , a littoral combat ship and an ocean surveillance ship
新的舰船,包括一艘驱逐舰,一艘沿海战斗舰和一艘海洋侦察船。
Ideally , this would take the form of a multilateral settlement of the competing territorial claims of the littoral states .
理想的结果是,以多变和解的形式来应对沿海国家各执一词的领土要求。
Asia 's modern " miracle " - economies plugged into globalised networks of supply and demand-is essentially a littoral story too , even when it falters , as now .
The shorthand for all this , the " asian miracle " , used to be a littoral phenomenon , confined to east and south-east asia and tied via the shipping container to western markets .