But even this more nuanced approach doesn't seem to hold water.

即使这些细微的推进也似乎站不住脚。

TEPCO says it plans to build more tanks to hold additional water.

东京电力公司表示，该公司计划建造更多水箱储存更多污水。

Vacuoles are basically storage tanks that the cell uses to hold water or other materials.

液泡基本上算作储存器，被细胞用来保存水或者是其他物质。

The area is thought to hold water ice that could support a future moon settlement.

该地区被认为拥有水冰，水冰可以支持未来的月球定居点。

Permanently shadowed craters there are believed to hold frozen water that could provide drinking water and rocket fuel.

人们认为那里永久被阴影笼罩的陨石坑里蕴藏着冰冻的水，可以提供饮用水和火箭燃料。

We mentioned earlier, that cooling the air reduces its ability to hold water, and triggers the formation of water droplets.

我们之前说过，给空气降温会减少空气中的水蒸气含量，从而形成水滴。

29.and its bladder stretches to hold this extra water.

并且它的膀胱伸展以容纳多余的水。

Rebuilding the soil increases its ability to hold water and makes it more fertile.

重建土壤可提高其保水能力并使其更加肥沃。

At first thought it seems incredible that there can be enough space in the “solid”ground underfoot to hold all this water.

或许在人们看来，坚硬的地壳居然有充足空间来储存这样多的水是难以置信的。

No dam is built to hold all the water that could  ever flow into the reservoir at once.

没有建造大坝来容纳所有可能立即流入水库的水。

At the same time, every degree increase in air temperature raises the air's capacity to hold water vapor by about 7 percent.

与此同时，气温每增高 1 摄氏度，空气的水蒸气容量就增加 7%。

And if you weave it really well, you might even be able to get a receptacle to hold rain water.

- 如果你编织得很好，你甚至可以得到一个盛雨水的容器。

Mosses absorb water and nutrients from their one-celled leaves, which are uniquely designed to hold water up to 30 times their own weight.

苔藓从它们的单细胞叶子中吸收水分和营养物质，这些单细胞叶子被别出心裁地设计成可以留住相当于自身重量 30 倍的水分。

The Brazilian mining company Samarco has said two of the dams it uses to hold waste water from iron production are damaged and could collapse.

巴西萨马尔科矿业公司称，两处铁矿废水水库大坝出现损坏迹象，并有可能发生崩塌。

A " dam" (dam) is a large structure used to hold water in a river, usually to provide protection from floods and to generate electricity.

“水坝” （dam）是一种用于在河流中蓄水的大型结构，通常用于防洪和发电。

The proceeds from the sale of public lands were dedicated to the construction of storage dams and sluiceways to hold water and divert it as needed to the thirsty sands.

出售公共土地的收益专门用于建造蓄水坝和泄水道，以蓄水并根据需要将水引到干渴的沙滩上。

Instead of separate projects to hold  back the water and create new housing, Copenhagen is constructing an entire new island off its shoreline that it hopes  will fix both of its problems.

哥本哈根没有单独的项目来阻止水流和建造新的住房，而是在其海岸线外建造一个全新的岛屿，希望能解决这两个问题。

What is the source of quality that one finds, let us say, in a Pomo Indian basket, so tightly woven that it was used to hold boiling water and never leaked a drop?

比方说，在一个 Pomo 印第安人的篮子里，人们发现质量的来源是什么，篮子编织得如此紧密，用来盛开水，而且从未漏过一滴水？

Another common expression, " to hold water" , is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about. It probably comes from a way of testing the condition of a container.

另一个谚语，“盛住水”，和你可能正在商讨的某个想法的优缺点有关。这个谚语很可能来自一种测试容器的状况的方法。

These tiny cubes are small enough to hold water without breaking its surface tension, so the sides of the cube can be completely open without the water spilling out, meaning the surface area exposed to the air outside is much bigger.

这些微小的立方体足够小， 可以在不破坏其表面张力的情况下容纳水，因此立方体的侧面可以完全打开而水不会溢出， 这意味着暴露在外面空气中的表面积要大得多。