Without the weight of water to support their sides, the continental shelves would collapse.

如果没有海水支撑大陆架，大陆架就会崩塌。

" They mostly forage over the continental shelf and don't go far out to sea" .

" 它们大多在大陆架上觅食，不会到远海。"

Argentina accuses Chile of encroaching into its territorial waters and trying to seize part of the continental shelf. Officials described the move as unacceptable.

阿根廷指控智利侵略其领海以及试图占领部分大陆架。相关官员称此举不可接受。

While " inner-coast" transients stalk shallow waters near the shore, " outer-coast" transients hunt in the deep open waters along canyons at the edge of the continental shelf.

“内海岸”过客鲸在海岸附近的浅水区潜行，而“外海岸”过客鲸则在大陆架边缘峡谷沿岸的开阔水域中捕猎。

The country says because the North Pole is connected to the continental shelf of Greenland, and because Greenland is a Danish autonomous territory, the North Pole is Denmark`s.

这个国家表示因为北极与格林兰岛的大陆架相连，而且格林兰岛又是丹麦属地，因此北极属于丹麦。

From the shore line, out to a distance which may be anywhere from a few miles to a few hundred miles, runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.

从海岸线向大海延伸几英里到几百英里的区域是大陆架慢坡，从地质学上来说，它是大陆的一部分。

The depth of the open ocean varies considerably  but the majority of it falls from the continental shelf down to depths of between 3,000 and 6000  meters, in what are known as abyssal plains.

公海的深度差异很大， 但大部分从大陆架延伸到 3,000 至 6,000 米深的地区，即所谓的深海平原。