The accident happened after a beam on a floating crane fell and impacted steel cofferdams, which supported the pier.

事故系桥墩因浮吊悬臂脱落，致使支撑桥墩的钢围堰坍塌。

The water was so great. We jumped off this pier and my suit came off.

海水好舒服，我们跳下桥墩 我的泳衣掉了。

Oysters were seeded on the piers and ever since, their concretions have helped cement the granite blocks together.

在桥墩上进行种之后，利用它们的凝固物可以将花岗岩胶合凝结起来。

As the horizon slid away the Danube became visible, and the piers of the Reichsbrucke lifted above the houses.

随着地平线的慢慢消失，多瑙河依稀可见，雷克斯布鲁克大桥的桥墩远远高出了屋顶。

Hanging from the top of the garden pier.

吊在桥墩的顶上。

So why do the arches of this bridge sit on top of spindly piers?

那么为什么这座桥的拱门坐落在细长的桥墩顶部呢？

Oh, the water was sooo great! We jumped off this pier and my suit came off.

海水好舒服，我们跳下桥墩 我的泳衣掉了。

Tied arch bridges don't transfer thrust forces to their supports, meaning they can sit atop piers designed primarily for vertical loads.

系杆拱桥不会将递到其支架上，这意味着它们可以坐落在主要为垂直荷载设计的桥墩顶部。

Great, strong trunks of ivy came curling up all the piers of the bridge, growing as quickly as a fire grows, wrapping the stones round, splitting, breaking, separating them.

硕大、坚实的常春藤缠绕着桥墩飞快地长了起来，卷着每一块桥石，破坏、分裂、瓦解。

The rocky island and the two caverns are known to every traveler, since the former sustains the pier of a bridge, which is now thrown across the river, immediately above the fall.

每个旅行者都知道岩石岛和两个洞穴，因为前者支撑着一座桥的桥墩，桥现在横跨河流，就在瀑布上方。

The second tension tie may have taken up much of its partner's stress and the pier supporting the arch may have been subject to a lot more horizontal force than it was designed to withstand.

第二个张拉杆可能承受了其伙伴的大部分应，并且支撑拱门的桥墩可能承受了比其设计承受的更多的水平。

Her mother was not only a spider—a reference to her career as a weaver and repairer of tapestries—but a “She-Fox”, a huge-breasted creature of enduring stone squatting on haunches under which Louise tried to burrow, like a worm.

她的母亲不只是一个蜘蛛——对于她职业像一个织锦画的编制者和修补者——而是一个“母狐狸”，一个大胸的生物，在路易斯试图像个蠕虫般大洞的桥墩上不断地垒石头。

As of this writing, crews are testing some revised drilling procedures that they hope will reduce the disturbance to the clay layer so they can get those piers installed and the building supported as quickly as possible.

截至撰写本文时，工作人员正在测试一些修改后的钻孔程序，他们希望这些程序能够减少对粘土层的干扰，以便他们能够尽快安装这些桥墩并支撑建筑物。