Some people are nervous about living near rivers because rivers can cause floods.

有些人担心住在河边，因为河流可能带来洪水。

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Hippos live near rivers.

河马居沿河栖息。

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Hippos are big. Hippos live near rivers. Hippos eat plants. Hippos have huge teeth.

河马很大。河马住在河流附近。河马吃植物。河马长着巨大的牙齿。

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Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

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Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

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Pittsburgh produced huge amounts of steel in factories built near the rivers.

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That means no clear-cutting and no logging near rivers.

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Those who objected to the listing based their arguments on the grounds that the designation would deprive Maine residents the ability to exercise final authority over land use near rivers where salmon run.

CNN: Atlantic salmon protection expected

Engineers have completed work on a project to improve the quality of water in rivers near Penrith in Cumbria.

BBC: Work to boost river water quality