水坝

In Wisconsin, authorities are watching dams in this rain-soaked state after a breach nearly emptied Lake Delton, washing away homes and a highway. A swamp of the Midwest is recovering from drenching storms. The weather is blamed for at least 15 deaths.

美国威斯康星州，在Delton湖出现裂口差不多将湖水排空后，官方正在密切关注这个被雨水肆虐，冲刷房屋和高速公路的州的水坝情况，中西部的湿地沼泽地区正在从恶劣的暴风雨中回复过来，这种天气条件造成了至少15人的死亡。

You see them crammed into metal racks on every street, bolted three-deep to canal bridges, spilling out from the multi-storey "bikepark" at Centraal Station, and perhaps being sold on the sly by the bike thieves who operate in Dam Square.

你到处都可以看到自行车塞满了金属停车架，或锁在运河桥旁；中央公园的多层自行车库也已停的满满当当；也许还可以见到那些偷车贼们在水坝广场一带交易他们的赃物。

Large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges.

大型半水栖啮齿动物，后足有蹼，尾巴宽而平；建造复杂的水坝和水下巢穴。

When people think of the Netherlands, a low lying country with numerous dams, tulips and clogs come to mind.

想到荷兰，这个到处都是水坝的低洼国家，郁金香和木屐就会浮现在脑海中。

Just upstream from the town of Del Rio is a dam that holds back water from the Rio Grande and two other rivers to form the 263 square-kilometer reservoir called Lake Amistad .

戴尔李欧镇上游处有一座水坝，其水源有二：一为李欧河，再者为源自鄂米斯达湖的两条河，此湖面积达263平方公尺，宛如一座储水池。

The Aswan Dam helps to control the River Nile in Egypt.

阿斯旺水坝有助于控制埃及的尼罗河水。在这些教材中出现过。。。

If everyone in the country returned to the slash-and-burn farming era, not only would we not need to build dams, but thermal power plants could shut down, and coal mines wouldn't need to kill so many people, so many good things!

如果全国人都回到刀耕火种的年代，不仅不用建水坝，火电厂都可以关闭，煤矿也不用死那么多人了，多好的事情啊！

But Slovakia is bidding for independence from the Czechs, and now needs a dam to prove itself.

土耳其向世界一流国家迈进的努力就是包括建立巨大的A水坝。

Hydrologists fear that the severity of the drought has encouraged farmers to build more dams.

水文学家担心，干旱的严重程度会促使农民建造更多的水坝。

And so we left and took about a quick 45 minutes to reach our destination : A railway track above a dry dam surrounded by beautiful mountains. The cold weather again reminded me of my photography shoot 2 weeks back at the Mongolia borders… though not as cold but cold enough to keep my goose pimples up and alive.

离开后只花了约45分钟车程就抵达我们的目的地，美丽的山峦环绕四周而铁路轨道就横越在乾涸水坝上面，寒冷的天气让我再次想起两个里拜前在蒙古边境取景的拍摄工作，虽然没有那麼冷但寒风也冷到足以让我起鸡皮疙瘩。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷