They had blocked the Tennessee River above and below the city.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

it seems here to rise up and out of the city and the river.

它好像从画面升起，超越了这座城市和这条河。

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Sudanese soldiers carried Jaafar Nimeiri's flag-draped body from the presidential palace in Khartoum to a cemetery in Omdurman, the capital's sister city across the Nile river.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31