大峡谷前往参观胡佛水坝,并眺望世界最大的密德人工湖。
Visit the Hoover Dam and take a look at the world largest man-made lake - lake Mead from a distance.
科学家发现建于1935年的胡佛水坝建成10年间,地震活动逐渐增加。
Scientists discovered 10 years after the Hoover Dam was built in 1935 that its reservoir was increasing seismic activity.
比如说,胡佛水坝所在地区就曾经由于米德湖的满溢而经历了数百次的地震。
For example, the Hoover Dam area experienced hundreds of quakes as Lake Mead filled.
胡佛水坝提供了两种关键的成分,水和电,使加州的西南部和南部实现了75年的井喷式增长。
Hoover Dam provided the two key ingredients - water and power - that freed the Southwest and southern California to go on a 75-year growth spurt.
这条水路可以从若干始发地点出发,通往科罗拉多河下游,最引人注目的无疑是胡佛水坝。
The trail offers access to the lower Colorado River from several launch sites, the most impressive of which is surely the Hoover Dam.
胡佛水坝改变了美国的人文地理状况。数千万人被引入贫瘠的西部地区,那里不再是一片荒芜。
The Hoover Dam changed the human geography of America, luring tens of millions into an arid West that would otherwise have remained a wilderness.
胡佛水坝横跨科罗拉多河,与亚里桑那州和内华达州接壤。它一度是美国有史以来最大的工程。
Straddling the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River, the Hoover dam was the largest project ever attempted in the US.
如果见过胡佛水坝你就会了解,它庞大得如同金字塔,而且有这么多的无名者参与了大坝的建设。
If you've seen the Hoover dam you realize, it's just astronomical. Just like the pyramids, so many people, so many anonymous people worked to build that dam.
事件的序列是:新马德里调整之后紧接着是欧洲海啸,之后在某一个时刻胡佛水坝和美国西海岸调整。
The sequence of events will be the New Madrid adjustment followed immediately by the European tsunami, then at some point the Hoover Dam and West Coast adjustment.
而在20世纪,这两家律所处理的法律工作为类似胡佛水坝[1]及金门大桥这些建筑奇迹的建设奠定了基础。
During the 20th century, these two firms handled the legal work that underpinned the construction of such tangible marvels as the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.
游客们站在胡佛水坝上朝上游的米德湖(美国最大的人造水库)望去会发现一条白色的宽条纹围绕着四周的岩壁。
STANDING on the Hoover Dam and looking upstream at Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir, the visitor notices a wide, white band ringing the cliffs.
但是如今,美国的载人航天飞行计划陷入停滞;一个沮丧的时代,即便是胡佛水坝游客的自豪之情,也掺入了几分忧伤。
But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness.
然而,除去USGS删除掉的数据不算,无论什么理由,在过去的六个月中仍然还有五次2级或两级以上的地震在胡佛水坝处。
Nevertheless, discounting the quakes the USGS deleted, for whatever reason, there were still five quakes of magnitude 2 or greater at the Hoover Dam site in the past 6 months.
即便是科罗拉多河也无法满足像凤凰城、洛杉矶和圣地亚哥一类大都市的用水需求,然而这个事实也诡异地证明了胡佛水坝的成功。
In an odd way, the fact that even the Colorado can no longer slake the thirst of metropolises such as Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego is testimony to the dam's success.
JamesWarriner中尉表示,事发地点位于93号国道27英里标志牌附近,在胡佛水坝南侧约27英里处,事发时间为下午4点。
The accident happened at 4 p.m. on U.S. 93 at mile marker 27, about 27 miles south of Hoover Dam, said Lt. James Warriner.
非洲尼罗河上阿斯旺水坝的兴建、欧洲莱茵河的治理、北美洲科罗拉多河上胡佛水坝的修建,其对社会、经济及环境产生的影响,都在世界历史上留下了深深的痕迹。
Aswan dam of Nile in Africa, regulation of Rhine in Europe and Hoover dam of Colorado in South America left deep traces in the world history for the social, economy and environment.
他所参与建设或者帮助建设的工程有:洛杉矶高架渠、奥克兰-圣弗兰西斯科海湾大桥、胡佛大坝、帕克大坝、舍斯特大坝和大古力水坝。
Among the projects he constructed or helped construct: the Los Angeles Aqueduct; the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge; and the Hoover, Parker, Shasta and Grand Coulee DAMS.
他所参与建设或者帮助建设的工程有:洛杉矶高架渠、奥克兰-圣弗兰西斯科海湾大桥、胡佛大坝、帕克大坝、舍斯特大坝和大古力水坝。
Among the projects he constructed or helped construct: the Los Angeles Aqueduct; the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge; and the Hoover, Parker, Shasta and Grand Coulee DAMS.
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