above water

基本解釋

I moved my hands and legs to keep my head above water; my shoulder hurt, and my hip.
我調(diào)整了一下姿勢，好讓頭保持在水面以上；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?
作為一個(gè)年青的專業(yè)人員，在這樣的經(jīng)濟(jì)環(huán)境中，你認(rèn)為要脫離困境，保持希望的最好方法是什么？
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.
如今島上有好多建筑已經(jīng)沉入水下，只有三分之一的油井還在運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)，但是“石油之巖”依舊產(chǎn)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.
哪里錯(cuò)了嗎？,問題在于,冰水混合物上方的,大氣中水蒸氣的分壓，不是一個(gè)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.
在搖搖擺擺的橋上面,你在幾百尺高的水上懸著，在微風(fēng)中蕩來蕩去，橋似乎也不穩(wěn)。
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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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