I think the river is the river of life and that river, the St. Lawrence River that we shared, tied us together.

我想这条小河是指生活的河流，以及我们共享的圣劳伦斯河，将我们联系在一起了。

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Egyptian life basically revolved around the mysterious rise and fall of the river.

埃及人的生活基本上是围绕着这条河的神秘涨落而展开的。

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But blood is the most commonly tested part of the body, and it is truly the river of life. Every cell in the body gets its nutrients from blood.

但血液对于人体来说是最普通也是最重要的一部分，并且它是生命最忠诚的河流。

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For the first time in her life, Sarah left the area along the Mississippi River where she was born.

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If the Jordan River is saved,they say, then the Dead Sea could also be brought back to life.

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Chad Isaak, who has fished the Illinois River for 27 years, he saw his first Asian carp in 1996, and his life as a commercial fisherman has not been the same since.

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As I peer through the heavy calibre bullet belt of the door gunner, suddenly lush, green fields appear and then out of this wilderness, sparkling in the sun rises the Helmand river bringing life to this barren land.

BBC: Afghanistan: Landing in the camp

This can be distracting, but it does illustrate how life along the river has changed.

CNN: River Prose

By the middle of the 20th century the river was almost devoid of life.

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