A dam burst and flooded their villages.
一个大坝决堤，淹没了他们的村子。
More than 70 people were killed in the floods, caused when a dam burst.
大坝决堤引发的洪水灾吞噬了七十多人的生命。
Your willpower is not like a dam that can block the torrent of self-indulgence.
你的意志力不像可以阻止自我放纵的洪流的水坝。
To build a tidal power station, we need to build a dam.
要建潮汐发电站，我们就需要建水坝。
It is difficult to build a dam in the sea, and the cost is very high.
在海里建水坝十分困难，成本也很高。
但是大坝是如何运作的呢？
A dam can affect local rainfall by altering the humidity of an area, experts say.
专家说，大坝可以改变一个地区的湿度而影响地区降雨。
China Eximbank cancelled a loan for a dam in Gabon on environmental grounds.
出于在环境方面立场，中国进出口银行取消了对Gabon大坝的贷款。
I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up.
我盖起一道堤把它拦起给我使用，因此泉干了。
A salmon that runs into a dam when homing in on her natal stream cannot make other plans.
一只鲑鱼在返回其出生地的时候撞到了水坝，尽管如此鲑鱼还是要寻找其出生溪流。
But the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation disagrees that 50 years is an advanced age for a dam.
但是，美国垦务局不同意大坝只有50年使用期的说法。
But once there's a dam and a lake on top.when is anyone ever going to see it or excavate it again?
然而，一旦有了一座水坝和一个湖在顶上，什么时候还能再次看到并且挖掘这些遗迹呢？
The expression comes from the idea that water that has flowed over a dam cannot be brought back again.
这个表达源自这样一种概念：流过水坝的水再也无法收回。
The expression comes from the idea that water that has fallen over a dam cannot be brought back again.
这个表达源自这样一种概念：流过水坝的水再也无法收回。
Some fish are radio-tagged, moved above a dam, and tracked to find out if they return to their birthplaces to spawn.
有些在水坝上活动的鱼被安上了无线电标签，可以追踪查看它们是否返回出生地产卵。
Blocking a river with a dam blocks the movement both of fish upstream to spawn and of silt downstream to fertilise fields.
建堤坝来阻断河流，既阻挡了回流产卵的鱼，又阻碍了下游淤泥肥沃土壤。
A dam or embankment is built to keep in the water, which freezes at night and remains frozen in the absence of direct sunlight.
现在已修筑了一道大坝或大堤用以蓄水，水在夜晚会结成冰，在没有阳光直射的情况下也会继续呈冰状。
The flooding started after the Kosi River broke a dam in Nepal and breached mud embankments in Bihar State in India a week ago.
洪水爆发是因为一个星期前尼泊尔境内的戈西河上一座大坝坍塌，导致下游印度境内比哈尔邦的土筑河堤决堤。
At least 58 people have been killed after a dam broke in the area of Tangerang south of Jakarta, Indonesia early Friday morning.
当地时间27日凌晨2时许，印度尼西亚首都雅加达以南的唐格朗地区发生蓄水湖大坝决堤事故，目前已造成58人死亡。
Blocking a river with a dam also blocks the movement of fish upstream to spawn and the movement of silt downstream to fertilise fields.
用大坝阻断河流使得鱼类无法逆流而上去产卵，同时淤泥无法顺流而下去肥沃土地。
As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity.
关于你的要求，我并不认为这些海狸知道在开始这种建坝活动之前，他们必须填表来获得允许。
Nearly 50, 000 people are reported to have fled their homes and hundreds are missing after a dam collapsed in southeastern Nepal on Monday afternoon.
据报道，尼泊尔南部的一个水坝于星期一决堤后，已有近50,000人逃离家园，还有几百人失踪。
The purpose of a dam is twofold: to house the turbines that create the electricity and to provide a sufficient head of water pressure to drive them efficiently.
水坝的作用是两方面的：放置涡轮机来发电以及提供充足的水压来有效地驱动涡轮机。
If it were possible to develop a turbine that did not need such a water-head to operate, and that could sit in the riverbed, then a dam would be unnecessary.
如果有可能制造出一种涡轮无需水的落差来运转，并且可以放置在河床上，那么就不再需要大坝了。
If it were possible to develop a turbine that did not need such a water-head to operate, and that could sit in the riverbed, then a dam would be unnecessary.
如果有可能制造出一种涡轮无需水的落差来运转，并且可以放置在河床上，那么就不再需要大坝了。
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