When the snow melted that spring, every stream became an angry river that raced down the mountains tearing up trees and bringing destruction.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

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

and you can take the boat all the way down the river to the other museum.

然后乘船沿着河流一路下行到另外一个博物馆。

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He decided to march most of his men down the west side of the river to a steamboat landing thirty kilometers below Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Peter's new fleet, we'll talk about his new fleet, which he oversaw and, in a very minor way, helped build himself, sails down the Don River in 1698 and takes the Turkish port of Azov, A-Z-O-V, on the Sea of Azov.

我们接下来讲讲彼得的新舰队,尽管影响不大,但他亲自监督,并且参与组建了这个舰队,舰队于1698年沿顿河顺流而下,直取土耳其的亚速港,在亚速海上

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

With his force of less than twenty men, John Brown moved through the darkness down to the bridge that crossed the Potomac River.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

It might bend and bow, that is it's not the forces of nature like the movement of the river that's knocking the bridge down, but it's just the failure of these materials over time, that they don't last as long as they might.

这桥可能会折断,不一定是洪水这样的自然灾害,导致了桥梁的坍塌,可能只是因为建桥的材料老化,这种材料没有那么持久耐用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Then he got up, found a long stick and walked up and down the river bank.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

A few weeks later, before the talks could be completed, Upshur joined the president and congressional leaders for a trip down the Potomac River.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

They would sail down the river to where it emptied into the Chesapeake Bay.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

If you are lucky, you can enjoy sunset while floating down the Chobe River.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

They travel together on a raft made of wood down the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Eight gunboats and three empty troop boats floated down the dark river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

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

Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers the Gila River, the Green River, the Little Colorado, the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison rivers.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

But the snow does melt. Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers -- the Gila River,the Green River, the Little Colorado,the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison Rivers.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

"All of the major bridges that cross the Swat River have all come down, which meant we have not been able to get to the worst affected areas."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02