已经79岁的十河没有出席通车仪式,因为他已于此前被赶下了台。
At the age of 79 has ten river did not attend the opening ceremonies, because he has to be cast down the stage before.
“噢,我相信他一点也不会喜欢的。”河鼠十分惊恐地说。
"O, I'm sure he wouldn't like that at ALL," said the Rat, quite alarmed.
1820年的热病摧毁了哥伦比亚河地区的人民,导致十分之八的人死亡。
In the 1820's fever devastated the people of the Columbia River area, killing eight out of ten of them.
在接下来的十年里,古斯塔夫·埃菲尔开始在河对岸建造他的不朽的铁塔,作为工业和科学的象征。
Across the river, the following decade, Gustave Eiffel began work on his monumental iron tower as an emblem of industry and science.
他们沿着河街走了三个街区以后,向左转上了十字街。
They moved up the river street three blocks, then turned to the left up a crossstreet.
这个新游泳池建在底格里斯河河边,在一个酷热的十月晚上,泳池为孩子提供了一个逃避炎热的地方。
This new pool was built on the Banks of the Tigris. On a hot October night, it provides kids with some respite from the heat.
施工人员干劲十足,不停地在这条河的沿岸堆起沙袋,不让河水漫出河堤流进低洼地区。
Crews along the river have been working feverishly stacking sandbags to keep the water from spilling out into low lying areas.
马丘·比丘位于乌鲁班巴河两千英尺之上,由银盘、神庙、宫殿及150多间的房子组成,这些都保存的十分完整。
Two thousand feet above the Urubamba river, these ruins consist of baths, temples, palaces and about 150 houses, all very well preserved.
在那个阴冷的夜晚,帕克渡过俄亥俄河,找到了十个丧魂落魄的逃亡者。
Crossing the Ohio River on that chilly night, Parker found ten fugitives frozen with fear.
布赖恩坎贝尔领导的乌汶耶珠河烤肉队已经参加了71场孟菲斯网站举办的烤肉比赛,获奖数十次。
Brian Campbell, whose team (Ubon's BBQ of Yazoo) has competed in 71 Memphis-sanctioned events and won dozens of awards, says “the money is break-even, at best.
美国的鲶鱼养殖户几十年前引进了亚洲鲤鱼用来消灭池塘中的藻类,一部分亚洲鲤鱼逃到野外并游向密西西比河。
Catfish farmers in the U.S. imported Asian carp decades ago to eat up the algae in their ponds; the fish slowly escaped into the wild and have been making their way up the Mississippi River.
住在河畔酒店,俯瞰静静淌过伍斯特郡的埃文河,景色十分优美。
The Waterside Hotel looks a heavenly spot for a stay, overlooking the river Avon in a quiet part of Worcestershire.
这条河的长度是淡水河的十倍。
相较而言,过去十年的经济繁荣让巴斯奎特一家难以负担高昂的房租,他们被迫离开曼哈顿,前往哈德孙河对岸的布鲁克林和新泽西州定居。
The boom of the past decade, by contrast, has priced budding Basquiats out of Manhattan, pushing them across the water to Brooklyn and New Jersey.
在过去几十年中,地震学家发现在卡罗来纳到密苏里河之间的任何地方都是潜在的严重断层地带。
In the past few decades, seismologists have discovered potentially serious fault lines everywhere from the Carolinas to Missouri.
唯一十分简单的解决方案是将五大湖与密西西比河断开,这曾经是过去发生的事情了,今天的担忧是过去 110年前开凿的运河造成的,这条河对污水处理和货物运输十分重要。
The only foolproof solution is to separate the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River, as was once the case—today’s worry is caused by a 110-year-old canal, vital for sewage disposal and transport.
那就像是一条河流承载着相当于密西西比河平时所承载的五到十倍的水量,而一个更大的超级风暴能够承载50倍的水量,她补充道。
"A typical river carries five-to-ten times the amount of water vapor than the Mississippi river carries as liquid, on average," and a big one can carry fifty times, he added.
从20世纪70年代到80年代,在此繁荣景象出现之前持续了十年干旱,干旱扩大了灌溉的需要,导致墨累河成了涓涓细流。
But the ten years of drought before this efflorescence followed a huge expansion of irrigation in the 1970s and 1980s that reduced the flow of the Murray to a trickle.
5月4日,在波西县的破伊恩特镇,被密西西比河的洪水包围着鹿群,几十只聚集在一块很小的干地上。
Hemmed in by Mississippi River floodwaters, dozens of deer gather on one of the few dry spots in Posey County's Point Township on May 4.
就在河对面,他们能看见他们的邻居Menye部族的房子。 Menye部族使用砸落死陷阱的技术十分高超。
Right across the river the houses of the neighboring Menye tribe can be seen; they use this type of trap –which is a very good technology.
周一是它自从1931年落成之后第十次被打开,泄洪闸使密西西比河的水流向庞恰特雷恩湖。
Monday marked the 10th time it has been opened since the structure was completed in 1931. The spillway diverts water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain.
周一是它自从1931年落成之后第十次被打开,泄洪闸使密西西比河的水流向庞恰特雷恩湖。
Monday marked the 10th time it has been opened since the structure was completed in 1931. The spillway diverts water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain.
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