水坝

Begun as a city to house workers building the Hoover Dam, Boulder outlawed gambling and alcohol from it's inception.

作为城市开始兴建胡佛水坝工作者之家，取缔赌博和酗酒巨石从它的开始。

"Hoover Dam: formerly Boulder Dam, Highest concrete arch dam in the U.S., built on the Colorado River at the Arizona-Nevada border ."

胡佛水坝：旧称顽石坝，美国最高的混凝土拱坝；建于亚利桑那－内华达州边界的科罗拉多河上。

The other great danger is the dams being built by the Chinese on the Brahmaputra and other rivers flowing to India.

另一个巨大危险是中国在布拉玛普特拉河以及其他流入印度的河流上筑水坝。

The conflict intensified in July, after the Tigers closed a dam in Trincomalee, thereby denying water to 30,000 farmers, mostly of the Sinhalese majority.

月，&猛虎&组织关闭了亭可马里的一座水坝，拒绝向3万农民供水，其中主要是占人口多数的僧伽罗人，此后，冲突加剧了。

That era gave birth to agencies like the SEC -- but also mammoth job-creation programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built dams during the Depression years.

那个年代催生了像SEC这样的监管机构，以及田纳西河流域管理局等制造了大量就业机会的庞然大物，后者在大萧条期间修建了一些水坝。

The Hoover Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the interstate highway system, the Internet, the Human Genome Project—time and again, government investment has helped pave the way for an explosion of private economic activity.

曾经多次地，政府投资在胡佛水坝（Hoover Dam，位于美国内华达州的东南部跟亚利桑纳州西北部的交界处，是美国最大的人工水库，同时也是美国七大现代土木工程奇迹之一），田纳西河流域管理局（Tennessee Valley Authority，一个国有、跨州、综合开发利用田纳西河流域自然资源的管理系统），州际公路系统，互联网系统，人类基因研究计划等项目中为私营经济的腾飞铺平了道路。

Particular controversy has ensued over four dams on the Snake River

这些水坝虽然已经导致河里的蛙鱼近于毁灭，但是它也在附近地带提供了大量可用发电的水动力。

14 Montalban, Philippines: Filipinos enjoy the waters coming from a dam in Rizal province.

菲律宾。蒙特尔班：在黎刹省，菲律宾人嬉戏享受着来自水坝的水。

From the grand coulee dam to the capitol.

从大库力水坝到美国首都

At the Hoover Dam, the water level has dropped more than 80 feet.

胡佛水坝的水位线至今已经下降了不止80英尺（约为24米）。

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