The movie makes for great conversation at the water cooler.

这本电影是在工作场所闲聊的极好的谈资。

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The Mole flung his sculls back with a flourish, and made a great dig at the water.

鼹鼠莫尔一挥手，把双桨甩了回去，在深深插进了水里。

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The water curved round the rocks in great bursts of foam.

水流卷绕着岩石产生大量的泡沫。

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Then,as the boat was carried to the top of a great wave, the captain looked across the water.

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Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

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The program pays for water research at universities that border either the oceans or the Great Lakes.

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Across the great water is another city, another crop of modern-day skyscrapers.

BBC: Congo Brazzaville's hidden war

For most of the past century, agriculture has been the winner of the water wars, receiving the great bulk of water from the Colorado River and its two large reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

NPR: Struggling over Water: A Series Overview

Still, they acknowledge the need for a framework of protections for the Great Lakes water system and see the rules as a good first step.

NPR: Governors Meet on Access to Great Lakes