18. W: Do you understand why the local people are opposed to the new dam up the river?

题18. W: 你知道为什么当地人反对在河的上游建新的大吗？

And now, fear of unknown things seized her, leaped swiftly out of the darkness at her and she could only stand and stare at him, all the flood of questioning dammed up at her lips.

如今，种茫无根据的恐惧抓住了她，仿佛从黑暗中猝不及防地向她猛扑过来，她只得站在那里，瞪着眼睛朝他看着。所有的疑像潮般涌来，可是却在她嘴边被堵住了。

Which was, I think, why we both got in trouble when Dave dammed up the stream running through the jungle and flooded much of lower West Broad Street.

我觉得，正因为如此，当戴维把穿过树林的小溪堵住，结果淹了大条西大街的时候，我才会跟他起倒霉受罚。

Once she allowed her anger to show, it could not be dammed up again.

【dam】她旦发起脾气来就不可收拾。

We even had our protective dam up.

我们甚至竖起了防护堤。

There we had a delightful swim in the broad piece of water above the lock, where the river looked much bigger than its natural size from its being dammed up by the weir.

在那里，我们在船闸上方宽阔的域中愉快地游泳，那里的河流看起来比它的自然大小要大得多，因为它被堰堵住了。

When you dam up a stream of water, as soon as the dam is full, as much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all.

当你堵住条流时，旦满了，流过头的就好像根本没有样。

We dammed up all of San Diego rivers, and we utterly blanketed the entire landscape with houses, with schools, with golf courses.

我们在圣地亚哥的所有河流上筑，并在整个地区修建房屋、学校和高尔夫球场。

The goal is to keep the dialogue between the two countries flowing, even as recent disagreements threaten to dam up progress.

目标是保持两国之间的对话畅通，即使最近的分歧威胁到阻碍进展。

" Some day I'll stay at home, and we'll try to dam up the brook and make a swimming pool."

“总有天我会呆在家里，我们会设法堵住小溪，建个游泳池。”

Do you understand why the local people are opposed to the new dam up the river?

8. W：你知道当地人为什么反对在河上建新吗？

I disagreed, of course, saying that it could decay a little longer, and that I was taking a holiday even though I thought I should dam up a hole in the dam before the water rose, otherwise the water would replace the daylight in the hole.

当然，我不同意，说它可能会腐烂得更久点，而且我正在度假，尽管我认为我应该在上涨之前在大上筑个洞，否则会取代洞里的日光。

He had filled bags with earth, and dammed up the mountain stream, and then during the night forced the enemy into the stream and then released the water.

他用土装满袋子，在山涧上筑，然后在夜间把敌人逼入溪中，然后放。