Nevertheless, when I scaled a high escarpment, I could see no volcanoes within a radius of several miles.

可是，我攀上一座高耸的悬崖，半径几海里的圆周内望不见火山。

She stepped past Paul, lifted her binoculars, adjusted the oil lenses and studied the escarpment across from them.

她从保罗身边走过，举起双筒望远镜，调整了油镜，研究了他们对面的悬崖。

He looked north across a line of rocks, studying a distant escarpment.

他隔着一排岩石向北望去，研究远处的悬崖。

A sweeping glance took in the sand around them, the rock escarpment perhaps two hundred meters away.

扫视了一下他们周围的沙地，岩石悬崖大约在两百米外。

He took a deep breath, looked up through the transparent end of the tent at the rock escarpment outlined against the stars.

他深吸一口气，透过帐篷透明的一端抬头看着星空映衬下的岩石峭壁。

" It'd keep a worm occupied for a time." She glanced at the stretch of moonlighted desert between them and the other escarpment.

“它会让一只蠕虫占据一段时间。”她瞥了一眼他们和另一个悬崖之间那片月光下的沙漠。

The stony escarpment upon which they stood had the contour of a man's face, and it was covered with furze as with a beard.

他们所站的石崖有一个人脸的轮廓，上面长满了金雀花，就像胡须一样。

It lay there full of moon-silvered waves—shadows of angles that lapsed into curves and, in the distance, lifted to the misted gray blur of another escarpment.

它躺在那里，到处都是月光般的银色波浪——角的阴影逐渐变成曲线，在远处，上升到另一个悬崖的迷雾般的灰色模糊。

Muscles reached a stage of mechanical aching that seemed to stretch out indefinitely, but Paul saw that the beckoning escarpment ahead of them had climbed higher.

肌肉达到了机械性疼痛的阶段，似乎无限期地伸展开来，但保罗看到他们面前那招手的悬崖已经爬得更高了。

The strong ascending air carried the rain-drops with it in its race up the escarpment, coming to him with such velocity that they stuck into his flesh like cold needles.

强劲的上升气流带着雨滴一路冲上悬崖， 以如此之快的速度向他袭来， 以至于它们像冰冷的针一样刺入他的肉体。