sand up to的意思|示意

I'd cycled down to the village's small beach, where a herd of cows were rambling among laid-up fishing boats, grazing on the sparse grass that poked up through the sand.

我骑车到了村子里小小的沙滩上，有一群母牛被散放在搁浅的渔船之间，吃着沙滩上稀稀拉拉的牧草。

When I came up sputtering, Jim smiled approvingly and we swam a few strokes to the beach, lay on the hot sand for awhile, and then swam back across the pool to do it again.

当我奋力跳入潭中后，吉姆赞许地冲我微笑，我们划了几下水游到了沙滩上，在热沙子上躺了一会儿，然后游回对岸，再把这种活动做一遍。

Bulldozers have already cut a road through the cliffs, flattened sand dunes and torn up vegetation to create housing blocks.

推土机已经在悬崖峭壁之间开辟了一条公路，这些机器铲平了沙丘，毁掉了植物草木，为建立住宅区做准备。

They worked with hand trowels, a plywood form for lining the shaft with concrete, inch by inch, and a sturdy hand-built crank for lowering a man to the bottom and sending up buckets of sand.

他们的作业工具是：挖土用的手工泥铲、浇筑混凝土井壁用的胶合板模板、还有手工制作摇杆。 摇杆将一个人送到井底，那个人就在井底一点点挖土然后再通过摇杆把沙子一桶桶送到地面。

He says up to three-quarters of the island's "body mass" -or sediment-is star sand, and he believes the beach project will help regenerate it naturally.

他表示图瓦卢岛近四分之三都是由星沙构成的，他相信这个海滩计划将有助于这个岛的自然再生。

I remember wondering what audiophiles were up to, buying extremely expensive home audio systems to play old vinyl records. They put turntables in sand-filled enclosures with elaborate cabling schemes.

我回想起我层疑惑那些发烧友的作为：他们购买极端昂贵的家庭音响播放黑胶唱片，把转盘放进接线精细的填沙盒子(不懂什么意思，我不是发烧友)。