Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in broad circles; then quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from a submerged berg of ice, swiftly rising to the surface.

突然，水面慢慢涌起许多大圆圈来，随后，快速地隆起，仿佛一座水下冰山从一旁冒了出来，迅速升上水面。

" Because this liquid mass would be subject, like the ocean, to the lunar attraction, and therefore twice every day there would be internal tides, which, upheaving the terrestrial crust, would cause periodical earthquakes! "

“因为这种液态物质会像洋一样​​受到月球引力影响，因此每天都会出现两次内潮汐，内潮汐会导致地壳隆起，从而引发期性地震！”

For a minute or two the shocks became more and more violent — flashing horizontal thrusts mixed with a few twists and battering, explosive, upheaving jolts, — as if Nature were wrecking her Yosemite temple, and getting ready to build a still better one.

一两分钟后，震动来猛烈——闪烁水平推力夹杂着一些扭曲和撞击，爆炸性、剧烈颠簸——仿佛大自然正在摧毁她优胜美地神庙，并准备建造一个更好神庙。