河水的水流湍急而且变化莫测。

The current of the river is fast flowing and treacherous.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

小船打转以舷侧冲入河水的洪流。

The boat swung broadside on to the current of the river.

《牛津词典》

你知道这河水的深浅吗？

Do you know how deep the river is?

《新英汉大辞典》

There was the vague sense of the infinite as I looked down upon the yellow, dreaming waters of the Mississippi from the verdant bluffs of Natchez.

我有种模糊至极的感觉,当我在纳齐兹部落长满绿草的悬崖上，俯瞰密西西比河泛黄的河水,如梦如幻，“

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But also, there is this sense of imagination, and you get that in the dreaming waters; you get that in the sense of travel or the image of the road that you can see in the green and red vegetables stretching away in their rows to the bright horizon.

但其中也有想象，从“如梦如幻的河水“你可以感受到;,从旅行的感觉或路的形象可以看到,从“一排排红的绿的蔬菜,在阳光下延伸得又直又长直到闪耀的地平线上“,可以看到。

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