They're huddled in more than a dozen recreational vehicles, some borrowed and others obtained with quick purchases as the river rose.

他们蜷缩在几十辆休闲车内，随着水位上涨，有的车是借来的，有的是临时买来的。

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The river rose by two feet after the heavy rains.

暴雨使河水水位升高两英尺。

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The river rose to its highest level in history during the flood last year.

这条河在去年洪灾期间上涨到历史最高水位。

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Six South Koreans were killed when the water in the shared Imjin River rose quickly to twice its usual level.

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The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

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The centre of Magdeburg, capital of Saxony-Anhalt, was spared as the river rose by less than feared.

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Related problems were evidenced by the closures of central power plants across Europe during the heat wave of 2003 because river water temperatures rose to levels where cooling was not possible or environmentally acceptable.

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The death toll from communal fighting over land and water in the past three weeks between the pastoral Orma and the agrarian Pokomo tribes along the Tana river in Kenya rose to at least 112.

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