On the wave walls, big and small shining circles are dropping into the river like raindrops, full of vividity and vigor.

波浪墙上，大大小小的光圈是落入水面的雨滴，生动而充满活力。

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But an industrial river like the South Branch reveals the backside where the factory windows are broken and scorched black.

芝加哥河南支流等工业河流则反映了城市背面的景象。厂房的窗户支离破碎，被烟熏得漆黑。

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Usually upstream countries dominate control of a river, like the Tigris and Euphrates, which are much reduced by the time they flow into Iraq from Turkey and Syria.

通常情况下，上游国家主宰着河流的控制权，像底格里斯河和幼发拉底河，当从土耳其和叙利亚流入伊拉克时流量就减小了很多。

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On either side of the path are what look like river beds of big rocks.

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This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。

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And there's a river with like crocodiles in it.

有一条有鳄鱼的河。

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Run-of-the-river dams like Baglihar consume nothing, since water must flow to run turbines.

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When night falls, thousands of fireflies light up these river reeds like Christmas trees, making this a truly fairytale end to a very special journey.

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This was the prevailing design in the mid-1800s, when wealthy Hudson River families like the Roosevelts and the Gildersleeves adapted traditional Dutch iceboats into lightning-quick sporting machines that raced--and often beat--the fastest steam locomotives plying the Hudson's banks.

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