Protecting the coastlines: People often refer to sea walls, but sea walls can bring problems like erosion.

人们经常提到海堤，但海堤会带来侵蚀等问题。

A sea wall is one of these adaptations.

海堤就是其中一种适应性。

We have to build sea walls and plant mangroves.

我们必须建造海堤，种植红树林。

Observers gathered at a sea wall to watch the arrival.

围观的人们聚集在一处海堤旁，观看他们抵达的场景。

Sea walls would weaken the waves' impact, but the protective barriers would quickly become submerged under several meters of water.

海堤会减弱海浪的冲击，但防护屏障很快就会淹没在几米深的水下。

Grassy sea walls. Reclaimed munitions dumps. Flat fields with pillboxes and all that mud.

草木丛生的海堤。被开垦的军火废弃地。平坦的田野上散布着碉堡和泥泞。

He pointed out the remains of a sea wall three or four metres offshore.

他指着离岸三四米的海堤遗迹。

And in Kerala, India, sea walls have actually led to worsening coastal erosion.

在印度的喀拉拉邦，海堤实际上导致了海岸侵蚀的恶化。

There's a sea wall around the park that you could jog, go for a walk, and beaches.

有一段海堤环绕公园，你可以在那里慢跑、散步或是在沙滩上游玩。

Follow the sea wall to St John's Fort, which protected the City Harbor from enemy ships and pirates.

沿着海边城墙走，便可抵达圣约翰堡这座堡垒，它保护城市港口免受敌船和海盗攻击。

And in coastal communities, the big drain, icy water surged over the sea walls onto streets and into homes.

而在沿海社区, 巨大的干燥的, 冰冷的海水涌过海堤进入街道和房屋。

People in some areas have attempted to stop tsunamis with sea walls, flood gates, and channels to divert the water.

某些地区的人们试图用海堤、防洪门和渠道疏导水来阻止海啸。

This would be followed by building the large sea walls along the western and eastern part of the city's coastline.

接下来，再沿着城市的西部和东部海岸线建造大型海堤。

Their boat, the Wylde Swan, arrived at Harlingen late Sunday morning. Observers gathered at a sea wall to watch the arrival.

他们的帆船“怀尔德天鹅”号周日上午晚些时候抵达哈林根。观察员们聚集在海堤旁等待学生们靠岸。

In hopes to prevent another Sandy-level disaster, Staten Island has recently received $615 million in funding for its own sea wall.

为了防止再次发生桑迪级的灾难，斯塔顿岛最近收到了6.15亿美元的资金，用于建造自己的防波堤。

So what Living Seawalls is doing is bringing back these natural habitat features to an artificial structure such as a sea wall.

因此，“活海堤”所做的就是用一个人工结构重构这些自然栖息地的特征，比如海堤。

Since much of Staten Island was initially built on wetlands, intense rainfall could easily flood neighborhoods—something a sea wall can't prevent.

由于斯塔顿岛的大部分地区最初都建在湿地上，强降雨很容易淹没周边地区——这是防波堤无法阻止的。

We have land erosion, the sea is taking most of the lands and people here try whatever they have to build sea walls.

土地被侵蚀，海水侵蚀了大部分土地，这里的人们想尽一切办法来建造海堤。

But fortifying coastlines with infrastructure, such as sea walls, is not always the answer.

但用海堤等基础设施加固海岸线并不总是解决问题的办法。

A new sea wall has been built to replace the one destroyed by the tsunami.

一座新的防波堤已经建成，以取代被海啸摧毁的防波堤。