But thanks to its emergence and submergence Spiral Jetty has become a handy visual metaphor, a symbol of climate change.

但由于它的出现和下沉，《螺旋形防波堤》已经成为一个视觉隐喻，成为了气候变化的象征。

It could withstand two weeks of complete submergence.

它可以承受两周的完全淹没。

My eyes flew back to the pressure gauge. The instrument indicated a depth of 6,000 meters. Our submergence had been going on for an hour.

现在我们继续做我们的观察我的眼光盯在压力表上面。表指六千米的深处。我们下沉开始以来有一小时了。

He supposed many men meant no more than that when they said they were in love--not a wild submergence of soul, a dipping of all colors into an obscuring dye, such as his love for Nicole had been.

他猜想，很多男人说他们相爱时，只不过是这个意思——不是灵魂的狂野淹没，不是将所有颜色浸入模糊的染料中，就像他对妮可的爱一样。