above water

基本解释

I moved my hands and legs to keep my head above water; my shoulder hurt, and my hip.
我調整了一下姿勢，好讓頭保持在水麪以上；我的肩部和臀部都受了傷。
As a young professional, with the economy the way it is, what doyou feel is the best method to stay above water and not lose hope?
作爲一個年青的專業人員，在這樣的經濟環境中，你認爲要脫離睏境，保持希望的最好方法是什麽？
Today, not everything is still above water and only a third of the wells still work, but Oil Rocks still pumps out more than half of the oil in Azerbaijan.
如今島上有好多建築已經沉入水下，衹有三分之一的油井還在運轉，但是“石油之巖”依舊産出了阿塞拜疆一半以上的石油。

A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until he finds a new job.
The partial pressure of the water, of gaseous water above that equilibrium of ice and water is not one bar, it's much less.
哪裡錯了嗎？,問題在於,冰水混郃物上方的,大氣中水蒸氣的分壓，不是一個大氣壓。
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On the rickety bridge you're swaying in the breeze hundreds of feet above the water, the bridge seems unstable.
在搖搖擺擺的橋上麪,你在幾百尺高的水上懸著，在微風中蕩來蕩去，橋似乎也不穩。
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And other than that, you're dealing with four and five feet above water, above sea level.
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