Second, this tableland, bounded on the east and west by lofty mountain ranges, but comparatively open on the north and south, was loaded with ice, which was discharged to the ocean northward and southward, and in its flow brought most, if not all, the present interior ranges and valleys into relief by erosion.英文原著 · 《Steep Trails》
The transition from one to the other of these various conditions was gradual and orderly: first, a nearly simple tableland; then a grand mer de glace shedding its crawling silver currents to the sea, and becoming gradually more wrinkled as unequal erosion roughened its bed, and brought the highest peaks and ridges above the surface; then a land of lakes, an almost continuous sheet of water stretching from the Sierra to the Wahsatch, adorned with innumerable island mountains; then a slow desiccation and decay to present conditions of sage and sand.英文原著 · 《Steep Trails》
From the day the Dorsey Brothers showed that Presley boy swiveling his hips, there's been a slow but steady erosion of the family.美剧 · 《Billions》
I'm giving this lecture on erosion theories tomorrow night.美剧 · 《Friends》
Raising the age of retirement is an unacceptable erosion of the American Dream.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Looks like you caught it early, without any noticeable erosion of the joints.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》