They share the territory with animals like white tailed deer, river otters and mice.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It seems like the second part is really where the river is hitting the road.

第二部分似乎正是,真正矛盾所在的地方。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He seeks catfish and buffalo fish, tastier and more marketable species found in lakes and rivers like the Illinois River.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

It might bend and bow, that is it's not the forces of nature like the movement of the river that's knocking the bridge down, but it's just the failure of these materials over time, that they don't last as long as they might.

这桥可能会折断,不一定是洪水这样的自然灾害,导致了桥梁的坍塌,可能只是因为建桥的材料老化,这种材料没有那么持久耐用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And,so,instead of having where before you had something like one- hundred tolls you had to pay on the Loire River, if you're transporting some goods, they eliminate all those tolls, they try to create uniform weights and measures, and that'll take one-hundred years before that really works.

相对于从前,诸如你想,通过卢瓦尔河运输货物,你必须支付一百元的过路费,他们取消了所有此类收费,他们尝试建立统一的度量单位,这些想法在一百年之后才得以实现

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选