河水

The Mississippi river, the boat, theprairie, the woods in autumn dress, the motionless hanging hawk inthe sky, the oaks, and the rustles of the fallen leaves in hischildhood all created the novels and thus the novelist, whom thecourse of human events has never ever had before and the one whowill be able to match him in the talent of writing has not yetloomed.

童年期那流动的密西西比河水，蒸汽船，草原，披上秋装的丛林，悬在天上静静的苍鹰，橡树，唏嗦的落叶，所有这一切都成就了马克吐温的小说和马克吐温这个小说家。

A sandbagged levee is still keeping the Cedar River out of downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa.

用沙袋砌成的大坝使得爱荷华州雪松瀑布市区免遭雪松河河水的入浸。

They are filling sandbags and packing up belongings as swollen rivers and streams threaten to overtake homes and communities.

在高涨的河水威胁他们家园的时候，他们已提前装好沙袋，收拾好行李。

In the middle of the day the air was alive over the land, like a flame burning;it scintillated, waved and shone like running water, mirrored and doubled all objects, and created great Fata Morgana.

每到中午，地面附近的大气像着了火似地躁动起来。蒸腾的气流晶莹闪烁，摇曳腾挪，渐渐幻作一条耀眼的&河流&。&河水&将周围的景致倒映其中，不经意间筑就了一座&海市蜃楼&。

And in the opening scene of 'The Hours,' the eloquent, somber screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's meditation on that suicide (it won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for fiction), Woolf scrawls an anguished farewell letter to her husband, then hurries into the muddy water like Joan of Arc embracing the fire, accompanied by the churning, ethereal strains of Philip Glass's score.

Virginia潦草地手书了一封痛苦的诀别信给Leonard，然后就匆匆自沉于混浊的河水里。伴之Philip Glass的配乐缥缈细腻地萦绕，整颗心都溶在了那氛围里。这场景仿佛圣女贞德无畏地拥抱焚烧她躯体的大火。

Its waters,in creeping down these miles of meadow-land,frequently divided,serpentining in purposeless curves,looping themselves around little islands that had no name,returning,and reembodying themselves as a board main stream further on.

这一带的草场，平衍广远，河水从这儿经过，往往泛滥流溢，不循轨道，曲曲折折，时分时合，分的时候，环抱无名的小洲，分而复合的时候，就又成了一道宽广的河流。赏析：读这样的文字，您会想到它是译文吗？

Its waters, in creeping down these miles of meadow-land, frequently divided, serpentining in purposeless curves, looping themselves around little islands that had no name, returning, and reembodying themselves as a board main stream further on.

Thomas Hardy： Tess of the d'Urbervilles 译文：这一带的草场，平衍广远，河水从这儿经过，往往泛滥流溢，不循轨道，曲曲折折，时分时合，分的时候，环抱无名的小洲，分而复合的时候，就又成了一道宽广的河流。

Also the river is seriously silted up causing the swelling of the river water.

此外河沙严重的淤积造成了河水泛滥。

A machine the size of a battleship spewed a river of molten alloy into the air.

一个战舰尺寸的机器把河水般的熔化金属喷到空中。

There are natural streamlines in our lives.

生活有时如平静的河水，毫无波折。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。