It flows down the sea shelf and out into the abyssal plain much like a river on land.

和陆地上的河流非常相似，它从海底大陆架流向深海平原。

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Houses reflect in the Spree river which flows past Berlin's Friedrichshain district on December 6, 2010.

2010年12月6日，建筑倒影在施普雷河，河水流过柏林的弗里德里希·海因区。

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The rapid melting is increasing summer river flows - but it raises the prospect that when the glaciers are gone, flows will diminish and depend entirely on the rains.

冰层迅速融化正在增加夏季河水的流量，预示着当冰川消失，河水流量就会减少，并完全依赖于雨水。

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And the strong man, still holding the small child, drifted away on the shadowy river that flows forever to the unknown sea.

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The Potomac River flows from Georgetown into the Chesapeake Bay, and Pittsburgh is on the Ohio River.

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The agency report called for the need to adapt to an increase in more intense hurricanes in the Caribbean, above-average warming impact on glacier-dependent river flows in Central Asia,and droughts affecting fragile economies in North Africa.

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In the late 19th century on the Illinois River, which flows southwesterly through the state, decoys were carved by market gunners, who shot birds by the thousands and sold them to high-end restaurants like Chicago's Grand Pacific Hotel, which featured 20 species of game birds on its annual game-night menu.

FORBES: Magazine Article

State Police said both fell out of their raft on the Indian River, which flows into the upper Hudson, and that Fay was drunk.

WSJ: Judge says NY rafter can resume trips with a bond

England has been intimately connected to this corner of India since 1826, when the British began planting tea estates all along the river valley of the mighty Brahmaputra, which courses out of the Himalayas and flows through Assam on its way to the Indian Ocean.

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