The simple mechanical pump draws water from a shallow well or nearby stream or river for use in irrigation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.

在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I'll take this even a step further, even though there is no research about this, I bet you this is correct: there is no difference in our levels of wellbeing if our place of residents is by the river or in the .

我会进一步说明，虽然还没有这方面的研究，我敢和你们打赌，下面的说法是正确的：,我们的幸福水平不会有所不同,不论我们是生活在河边,还是呆在监狱。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Ships can enter the Saint Lawrence River on the east coast of Canada and travel to Chicago, Illinois or Duluth,Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

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

Visitors can choose to visit rooms with river fish and animals, or they can explore creatures found in warm tropical waters.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The Colorado River flows through, or provides water for, the states of Wyoming, Colorado,Utah,New Mexico,Arizona, Nevada and California.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Lord Ashburton said Britain regretted that it had not made some explanation or apology for the sinking of an American boat in the Niagara River.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Land travelers can look at a mountain,or a river, or an object that shows them where they are in relation to where they came from.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

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

VOA: special.2009.09.14

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

"Like a dry river bed in New Mexico or Arizona.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Johnson says he has learned from mistakes made in Paris, where many of the bikes were stolen or thrown into the river.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

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

"Fishing is going to go on whether it be on the west side of the river or the east side of the river."

VOA: standard.2010.05.08