I slipped on one and started to slide down the embankment.

我踩到一块积雪，脚一滑，竟然沿着路基滑去。

It rolls down the embankment and lands up against their railings.

它会滚路，停靠在他们家的围栏旁。

Work is underway to strengthen river embankments and repair damaged roads.

正在进行加固河和修复受损道路的工作。

But the government and powerful landowners are known to breach these embankments on purpose.

但众所周知，政府和强大的土地所有者故意破坏这些。

They crawled over an embankment onto the wet grass.

他们爬上河，躺在湿漉漉的草地上。

After breakfast near ten o'clock, we went down onto the embankment.

吃早饭，十点左右，我们船来，到岸上去。

The embankments along the river were built to protect regions from riverine flooding.

沿河的是为保护地区免受河流洪水的侵袭。

The Nautilus was stationary. It was floating next to an embankment shaped like a wharf.

诺第留斯号静止不动。它靠近作为码头的岸边浮着。

The British built embankments to keep floodwater from flowing past the river's banks.

英国人修建，止洪水流过河岸。

It was blocked by the system of canals, embankments and wastewater drains built parallel to the river.

它被与河流平行的运河、和污水排水渠系统所阻塞。

But even  that is not enough to protect the embankment.

但即便如此也不足以保护路。

We  often build an embankment of multiple zones.

我们经常建造多个区域的路。

His head popped up over the embankment.

他的头从岸上探出来。

A tidy embankment is so pretty they call it " little Venice."

整洁的岸美不胜收，人们称它为“小威尼斯”。

The car shot over an embankment and hurled me against a tree.

汽车冲过路， 把我撞到一棵树上。

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment.

她停来，把胳膊肘靠在路的栏杆上。

Arrived at the embankment I saw a carriage and a tiny hand on the door.

到岸，我看到一辆马车和一只小手放在门上。

It was an earthfill embankment dam  with two spillways and a powerhouse.

这是一座土坝，有两个溢洪道和一个发电厂。

" Not much. I pushed him off a sixteen-foot embankment before he was well started" .

“不多。在他起步之前， 我把他推 16 英尺高的路” 。

And yet, having water overtop an unprotected embankment  will almost certainly cause a breach and failure.

然而，水漫过未受保护的路几乎肯定会导致决口和破坏。