levees

Levees have changed that. Until Katrina, the Mississippi had not flooded in or around the city in almost 80 years.

将近80年里密西西比河附近的城市都没有发生过水灾，但卡特里娜过后堤坝已经发生了变化。

But the hastily built levees will still have to hold up against the ice-laden water that's expected to remain high for at least a week.

不过，临时建起的大堤仍旧要控制住融雪覆盖的洪水，此次洪水预计会保持高位至少一周。

Then, in the last years of the eighteen hundreds, several area levees broke under suspicious conditions.

然而，在19世纪的最后几年，有几个地方在可疑的情况下发生了决堤事件。

The state fears at least 20 levees have been compromised in low-lying communities along the Missouri River.

在沿着密苏里河的低洼地区，该州担心至少有20处防堤被洪水淹没。

At least 200 homes have been evacuated in the southern part of the state as water poured through bridges and levees.

由于洪水漫过了桥梁和大堤，该州南部地区至少已有200个家庭被疏散。

On the list of infrastructure that was drawn up in 2000, at the top of the priority was New Orleans levees.

2000年草拟的基础设施建设清单上，首要任务就是建设新奥尔良的防洪堤坝；

So far, about 240 people who fled when levees broke and destroyed their homes have been able to return.

迄今为止，在大堤决口时房子被洪水冲毁的约240人得以重返家园。

Federal officials briefed the president on efforts to shore-up levees along the Mississippi River and help those displaced by the flooding.

联邦官员向布什总统通报了有关部门加固密西西比河沿岸堤坝和帮助那些在洪水灾害中无家可归的人们的努力。

As lava moves through a channel, overflows build natural levees along the sides, which can eventually connect and harden, forming a canopy.

由于熔岩的举动透过管道，建立自然溢出堤防沿线两岸，最终可以连接和硬化，形成一个天篷。

Authorities are keeping a close eye on levees where volunteers have been adding thousands upon thousands of sandbags to shore them up.

当局正严密关注防洪堤坝，数千志愿者在那里堆积沙袋加固大坝。

Ahead of the deluge, some intrepid homeowners tried to save their houses by building makeshift earthen levees.

在洪水来袭前，有些胆大的居民尝试建造临时的“山寨”堤坝来保护家园。

But these words do not: flood, drought, hurricane, rising sea levels, bursting levees.

但是洪水、干旱、飓风、海平面上升、堤坝断裂这些词汇却令人惧怕。

It has already broken through a number of levees across Missouri.

洪水已经冲垮了密西西比河上的数座堤坝。

The continent, the levees are the three towers, shadow into a lake, the so-called "three" also.

堤东有洲，旁有三塔，影入湖中，所谓“三潭印月”也。

But experts say the situation would have been far worse if not for the levees, spillways and other flood controls built along the river.

但是专家说，如果不是堤坝，溢洪道和其他控制洪水设施的阻挡，情况可能会更糟。

Tractors are tilling the land and building earthen rows that will serve as levees once water flows into these fields.

拖拉机在耕地，并且建起一道道田埂，等水流进这些农田时，这些田埂就能起到河堤的作用。

The regional boards overseeing the river levees, once a patronage playpen, have been restructured and professionalised.

地区委员会所在之地俯视河岸，曾经接受赞助建立了护栏，如今重新建造并且修建得十分专业。

The president was in Europe when heavy rains began forcing rivers over their banks and levees.

美国中西部降暴雨导致河水漫出河岸和堤防的时候，布什正在欧洲访问。

Some of these levees are higher and longer than the Great Wall of China.

在这些大堤中，有些比中国的长城还要高还要长。

That, the girls eventually the collapse of the Levees Broke, she thought: Perhaps, they had no future!

那间，女孩终于决堤崩溃，她心里想：或许，他们再也没有未来了！