Chinese soldiers used explosives to blast part of a leaking dike so as to release flood waters on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River.

我国官兵对长江一条水位暴涨的支流垮堤进行爆破泄洪。

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When still a young man, he was appointed to a committee to find out whether the South Branch of the James River was deep enough to be used by large boats.

在他还很年轻的时候，他就被任命为一个委员会的成员，去调查詹姆斯河南部支流的水深是否足以通行大型船只。

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So Death crossed to an elder tree on the banks of the river, fashioned a wand from a branch that hung there, and gave it to the oldest brother.

死神就走到岸边一棵接骨木树前，用悬垂的树枝做了一根魔杖，送给了老大。

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When the dinghy capsized in the River Swale, the boy grasped hold of a branch in the fast-flowing water.

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The tunnels merge and separate, feed into the sewer system, and branch out again for hundreds of metres, emerging right outside town, amid the bushes of a dry river bed.

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