levees

美 [?levi] 　英 [?leve?]

• n.碼頭；〈英〉(國王專對男臣舉行的)早朝；(法國宮廷的)早朝
• v.筑堤
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)堤防；大堤；防洪堤

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例句

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

將近80年里密西西比河附近的城市都沒有發(fā)生過水災(zāi)，但卡特里娜過后堤壩已經(jīng)發(fā)生了變化。

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.

不過，臨時建起的大堤仍舊要控制住融雪覆蓋的洪水，此次洪水預計會保持高位至少一周。

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

然而，在19世紀的最后幾年，有幾個地方在可疑的情況下發(fā)生了決堤事件。

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

在沿著密蘇里河的低洼地區(qū)，該州擔心至少有20處防堤被洪水淹沒。

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

由于洪水漫過了橋梁和大堤，該州南部地區(qū)至少已有200個家庭被疏散。

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

2000年草擬的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)清單上，首要任務(wù)就是建設(shè)新奧爾良的防洪堤壩；

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

迄今為止，在大堤決口時房子被洪水沖毀的約240人得以重返家園。

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

聯(lián)邦官員向布什總統(tǒng)通報了有關(guān)部門加固密西西比河沿岸堤壩和幫助那些在洪水災(zāi)害中無家可歸的人們的努力。

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

由于熔巖的舉動透過管道，建立自然溢出堤防沿線兩岸，最終可以連接和硬化，形成一個天篷。

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

當局正嚴密關(guān)注防洪堤壩，數(shù)千志愿者在那里堆積沙袋加固大壩。

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

在洪水來襲前，有些膽大的居民嘗試建造臨時的“山寨”堤壩來保護家園。

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

但是洪水、干旱、颶風、海平面上升、堤壩斷裂這些詞匯卻令人懼怕。

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

洪水已經(jīng)沖垮了密西西比河上的數(shù)座堤壩。

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

堤東有洲，旁有三塔，影入湖中，所謂“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.

但是專家說，如果不是堤壩，溢洪道和其他控制洪水設(shè)施的阻擋，情況可能會更糟。

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

拖拉機在耕地，并且建起一道道田埂，等水流進這些農(nóng)田時，這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.

地區(qū)委員會所在之地俯視河岸，曾經(jīng)接受贊助建立了護欄，如今重新建造并且修建得十分專業(yè)。

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

美國中西部降暴雨導致河水漫出河岸和堤防的時候，布什正在歐洲訪問。

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

在這些大堤中，有些比中國的長城還要高還要長。

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

那間，女孩終于決堤崩潰，她心里想：或許，他們再也沒有未來了！

The sides of the flow can also cool faster than the center, leading to the formation of wall-like structures known as flow levees.

邊緣的熔巖要比中間的冷卻的快，這樣就形成了像墻一樣的結(jié)構(gòu)，我們稱之為流堤。

Levees in New Orleans are expected to hold, though the storm's surge could still flood the city as water over tops levees.

新奧爾良的防洪堤預計不會受損，但風暴造成的浪潮可能會令水位高過大堤，從而淹沒城市。

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled floodwaters after the Indus River smashed through levees.

印度河堤壩沖垮后數(shù)十萬巴基斯坦人逃離洪水。

When a typhoon attacks, evacuating gates must be closed in time to secure the lives and properties inside the levees .

由于在臺風來襲期間疏散門必須適時的予以關(guān)閉，以確保堤內(nèi)居民生命財產(chǎn)安全。

The state fears at least20 levees have been compromised in low-lying communities along the Missouri River.

該州擔心在密蘇里河沿岸的處于低洼地區(qū)的社區(qū)的至少20個防洪壩受到了洪水威脅。

The mighty Mississippi River broke through or flowed over the tops of dirt levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

洶涌的密西西比河沖跨并淹沒了愛荷華州、伊利諾斯州和密蘇里州最高的泥筑堤壩。

Levees hold back the river and giant pumps are used to move water from the city into the river.

堤岸抑制了河水，巨大的水管被用來把城市中的水排入河里。

Next year the US army corp of engineers will hand over operation of a rebuilt system of levees, walls and flood gates.

明年美國工程兵部隊的工程師們將接手負責操作系統(tǒng)重建堤壩，圍墻及防洪門。

Right now officials fear dozens more levees along the Mississippi River may overflow.

現(xiàn)在官方害怕密西西比河沿岸更多的防洪堤會決堤。

Opening a channel, the Morganza spillway, is meant to relieve pressure on the levees protecting the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

打開Morganza泄洪道是為了緩解保護巴吞魯日和新奧爾良的堤壩的壓力。

At least 22 levees in the three flood-stricken states have already been topped by flood waters this week.

受災(zāi)地區(qū)這周至少有22座防洪壩被大水沖毀。

This image was taken shortly after high waters breached New Orleans' levees and flooded the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

受颶風卡特里娜影響，洪水淹沒了新奧爾良，這照片就是在這之后不久拍攝的。

Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.

這些工作，將讓我們破敗不堪的道路、橋梁和堤壩得以重建，從而讓那些發(fā)生在新奧爾良和明尼阿波利斯的悲劇永不再現(xiàn)。

The work of repairing our crumbling roads and bridges, and our dangerously deficient dams and levees.

工作包括修理我們破舊的公路和橋梁，以及我們處于危險境況的大壩和堤壩。

levees are needed in floodplains , where soils tend to be wet and can change every 100 yards along a proposed route.

濫平原需要海堤，因為這里的土壤通常相當濕潤，同時筑堤預定路線上的土質(zhì)往往每隔100公尺就不一樣。

There were more evacuations in Missouri where levees have been topped by rising flood waters.

在密蘇里州，因洪水泛濫許多防洪堤被水覆蓋了，越來越多的居民都搬遷了。

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours. . .

它是當堤壩潰決后收留一個陌生人的仁善，它是那些寧愿減少自己的工時…

Ongoing efforts toinvestigate and repair the levees have been met with opposition from localofficials, who question the Corps' analysis.

正在努力進行的調(diào)查和修繕工作遭到了當?shù)?/c>政府的阻撓，他們質(zhì)疑部隊的分析結(jié)論。

Second, flood control levees , and dikes built along rivers alter and destroy aquatic habitats.

其次，沿河被修造的防洪堤壩和堤堰會改變并且毀壞水生生物的棲所。

Unlike New Orleans, the levees of the global economy have broken, one after another.

與新奧爾良不同，全球經(jīng)濟的防洪大堤已一次又一次被沖垮。