The giant freshwater Mekong River stingray is just one of many mega fish species that could be threatened by dam-building plans in the Mekong River Basin.

湄公河流域的筑坝计划将会威胁到很多巨型鱼类，这种巨型淡水黄貂鱼只是其中一种。

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Trying to stop your thoughts is like trying to smooth out a running river by putting your arm across it... you'll just disturb it all the more.

尝试去阻止你的思维就好像把你的手臂横在川流不息的河流中…你只会更加严重的干扰到它。

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URUGUAY, lying just across the muddy waters of the River Plate from Argentina, has been fated in recent decades both to be buffeted by, and to benefit from, its big neighbour’s secular instability.

乌拉圭,与阿根廷隔着混浊的拉普拉塔河而相望。 这个国家在最近的一、二十年里，不是受到他的巨人邻居社会经济长期不稳的冲击就是受益于其中。

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It did well shifting from a metal-bashing industrial economy in the 1970s to a high-tech and service economy by the 1990s, just across the river from Manhattan.

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Yet these tracts "give way to rubber and oil-palm plantations owned by untouchable companies, " just as the Kapuas river teems with logs felled by similarly connected operators.

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The shootings shattered the peace and rattled the nerves of Mohawk and Herkimer, two small villages about 170 miles northwest of New York City, separated from each other by the Mohawk River, the New York State Thruway and just a mile.

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