Southern California gets its water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Colorado River Basin, which are hundreds of miles to the north and west, respectively.

南加州的水源来自北边的内华达山脉（Sierra Ncvada Mountain）和西边的科罗拉多河流域（Colorado River Basin），都有数百英里远。

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At the west end of Narrow Canyon, the Dirty Devil River joins the lake from the north.

窄峡谷(Narrow Canyon)的西端，有脏魔河(Dirty Devil River)由北汇入湖泊。

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Very roughly this river defines the north west edge of the Indian subcontinent and the Persians, Greeks, Romans and the rest of us applied the name to everything on the other side of that river.

这条河很粗略地定义了印第安次大陆的西北端，而波斯人、希腊人、罗马人和其他的人把这个名字应用到那条河对岸的任何事情。

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Its borders are debated. Generally,however, they stretch from Fourteenth Street on the north side, Avenue A on the west, Houston on the south and the East River.

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The constituency stretches from a few miles south of Ballymena in the north to the River Bann at Toome in the west.

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The railroad came in from the north, the Big Hole River came in from the west, and both left heading south, searching for brighter pastures.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet'

The 218-acre site where Roosevelt raised cattle in the mid-1880s before he returned to his native New York and eventually moved into the White House is in the north end of the park and on the west side of Little Missouri River.

WSJ: Oil company eyes ND site near Roosevelt ranch