Last year, he applied to Harvard University for a scholarship and succeeded in passing a difficult examination.
去年,他向哈佛大学申请奖学金并通过了一个很难的考试。
Our knowledge of the oceans a hundred years ago was confined to the two-dimensional shape of the sea surface and the hazards of navigation presented by the irregularities in depth of the shallow water close to the land.
100年前,我们只知道海洋是二维平面形的,以及靠近陆地浅水区的深浅不一能给航行带来危险。