It is the longest tidewater glacier in North America.

它是北美最长的潮水冰川。

A tidewater glacier is one that begins in a mountain valley and flows all the way to a body of water.

潮水冰川是源于山谷并一直流入水体的冰川。

Mary Gwathmey Mays. Gwathmey's an old tidewater family, isn't it?

Mary Gwathmey Mays Gwathmey家可是个老家族了， 不是么？

The granddaddy of all tidewater glaciers is the Bering, the largest and longest glacier in North America.

所有潮水冰川的鼻祖是北美最大最长的冰川白令冰川。

And with a child clinging to each hand he faced once more the country of the tidewater'.

” 每只手都紧握着一个孩子， 他再次面对潮水的国度。

20 of these tidewater glaciers reside here in Prince William Sound, the highest concentration of them in the world.

这些潮水冰川中有 20 个位于威廉王子湾，是世界上冰川最集中的地方。

'And all these years, down in the tidewater country, the little brown-faced twins were asking childwise, 'Where is our father?

“这些年来， 在潮水乡下， 这对棕色脸的小双胞胎一直在孩子般地问， ‘我们的父亲在哪里？

His young wife had borne him twins, and was sobbing out her anguish in the little fir-bark lodge near the tidewater.

他年轻的妻子为他生了一对双胞胎，她在潮水边的杉树皮小屋里哭泣着表达自己的痛苦。

He said, " We should be very concerned about North Greenland warming because that region has a dozen sleeping giants in the form of wide tidewater glaciers and an ice stream."

“我们应该非常关注北格陵兰岛的变暖，因为该地区有十几个沉睡的巨人，它们以宽阔的潮汐冰川和冰流的形式存在。”

As she beached, I greeted her with extended eager hands to assist her ashore, for the klootchman is getting to be an old woman; albeit she paddles against tidewater like a boy in his teens.

当她靠岸时，我伸出热切的双手迎接她，帮助她上岸，因为那个乞丐快成老太婆了；尽管她像十几岁的男孩一样在潮水中划桨。