They were put to work as cleaners at fish farms along the Mississippi River and in wastewater treatment systems.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

We would know as a fact that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, except that it's impossible.

我们知道乔治华盛顿曾将一枚银币抛过,拉帕汉诺克河,但这明显是不可能的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I love jogging in Riverside Park as well along the river.

我也喜欢沿着公园的河畔慢跑。

纽约的公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

These two artists were linked to a nineteenth century group of painters known as the Hudson River School.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

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

He said Britain would accept nothing but the Columbia River as the southern border of British Oregon.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

It's a fantasy, of course, because no such brainwashing is going to be possible, just as the fallen angels - if you look at line 607 - will be barred from drinking their fill of the river Lethe, forgetfulness is impossible.

当然这是一次幻想，因为这种洗脑,根本就不可能实现，就如同那些堕落天使一般,如果看第607行7,他们被禁止喝忘川之水，遗忘是不可能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As the boat moved slowly up the East River in New York, the doctors put President Cleveland to sleep with an anesthetic drug.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.

有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As General Custer moved through the river valley, he sent men ahead to explore the area.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The little river began to rise. The commander of Confederate forces in Richmond saw this as a chance to smash a large part of McClellan's army.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Now,as they came to the Pecos River, the wagon hit a big rock.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

It would recognize the Rio Grande River as the southern border of Texas.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

As he lifted the basket from the water, the river immediately became calm.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Mist can take you on a boat ride up and down the river so you can see the animals as they come to drink or play in the water.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

The three men moved along the small river as they worked.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

But it did not have the money. Slidell was to offer to pay these claims if Mexico would accept the Rio Grande River as the border between Texas and Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

As we cross the river, he takes us through a lock he says has been closed since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

Remnants of its 74 stone locks, as well as brick aqueducts that brought it water from the river,remain.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

In addition to touring and recording with his quartet, he's worked as a composer or arranger on the Clint Eastwood films "Mystic River."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

They are known as Asian Carp and the explosion of their population in the Illinois River is a concern to large-river ecologist Kevin Irons.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"There's as many as 4,100 adult silver carp per mile here on the middle Illinois River."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Chad Isaak, who has fished the Illinois River for 27 years, he saw his first Asian carp in 1996, and his life as a commercial fisherman has not been the same since.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Mule stables dotted the route. But the canal company ran out of money as faster railroads stole most of their business, and the C&O Canal never reached Pittsburgh and the Ohio River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29