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The water had raced down the slope and scoured out the bed of a stream.

水顺着山坡流下来，冲刷出一条小河道。

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In particularly wet years, short stretches of an otherwise dry stream-bed may have flowing water because the water table rises to intersect the land surface.

在气候特别湿润的年月里，平常干涸的河床下游可能会有水流动，因为地下水在那里位抬升到了地表以上。

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In the centre of Tafraoute, sheep make their way up a dry stream bed.

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He had slipped the pack off and lowered it gently down between two boulders by the stream bed.

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There was no trail that the young man could see, but they were working up and around the face of the mountain and now they crossed a small stream and the old man went steadily on ahead up the edge of the rocky stream bed.

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