The World Monuments Fund placed the river on its two thousand eight watch list of one hundred most endangered sites.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

One of these little details that Milton has lifted rather directly is that of the river Lethe, the river of oblivion that was believed to flow in the underworld.

其中弥尔顿直接盗用的一个小细节,是遗忘之河，即忘川,忘川被认为在地狱流淌。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And he says, I don't, "No one really knows where the Nile River starts."

他说，“我不，没人真的知道尼罗河的源头到底在哪里。”

神话有趣的课 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You would not want to get off one horse and on to another in the middle of a river.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And,so,instead of having where before you had something like one- hundred tolls you had to pay on the Loire River, if you're transporting some goods, they eliminate all those tolls, they try to create uniform weights and measures, and that'll take one-hundred years before that really works.

相对于从前,诸如你想,通过卢瓦尔河运输货物,你必须支付一百元的过路费,他们取消了所有此类收费,他们尝试建立统一的度量单位,这些想法在一百年之后才得以实现

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The road is about one hundred forty kilometers from Washington, on the other side of the Potomac River.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

So,if you take number one--but we don't have to go through them all and I assure you we won't--if you take number one, the Ain,a-i-n,it's named after a river; or if you take number two,the Aisne,a-i-s-n-e, it's named after a river; and how many hundreds of thousands of people died along there in World War One or,you take number three,the same thing,Allier.

如果你看第一个省,我向你们保证,我们不用挨个了解,看第一个省,安省,a-i-n,来自一条河的名字,或是第二个埃纳省,a-i-s-n-e,来自于一条河的名字,有成千上万的人在这里死于,第一次世界大战,第三个,阿列省

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

One dark night, Farragut led seventeen Union warships up the river in a line.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

He sent one of his officers across the river to meet with Mexican officials.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

River banks often also have clay about one meter or less under the surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

One of those terrible streams was the North Fork River.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

But one bridge remained over the Chickahominy River.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

One such organization is Golos Samara, a voters rights group situated in Samara,on the Volga River, in the south of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

Gradually,Asian Carp edge out the other native species in the river until they are one of the only kinds of fish left.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

One woman says they are dying because the river of mud is in front of their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

One of them - the Erie Canal - opened the West to commerce by connecting New York's Hudson River with the Great Lakes in the heartland.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"There is already a drop in supply. Because, on the east side of the river, that is one of the most productive estuaries in the world for oysters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08