Arizona is the Grand Canyon State because of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

To drink from this river would allow the fallen angels to forget their fallen state, to forget the fact of their fallen-ness from their more blissful former condition.

喝忘川之水让那些堕落天使,忘记他们的堕落的处境，忘记自己堕落这一现实,忘记自己是从幸福天堂堕落的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

Last Friday night,an oil pipeline broke under the Yellowstone River in the western state of Montana.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

The school was named after the Hudson River Valley in the state of New York.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

The fishing ban announced Sunday did not affect state waters west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

They settled in a camp near the Onion River in the state of Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

First,Grant planned to cross the river into northern Mississippi state.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

He also is a commercial crabber and fisherman. He says if the shut down continues on the east side of the Mississippi, Louisiana's' seafood industry will survive,because 70 percent of the state's fish and shellfish come from the west side of the river.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08