The Gateway Arch towers above St. Louis on the banks of the Mississippi River.

圣路易斯的西进之门伫立在西西比河的河岸。

Four Asian carp species now live in much of the Mississippi River.

洲鲤鱼现在生活在西西比河的大部分地区。

The Mississippi is overtopping a few small levees north of St. Louis and Missouri.

西西比河的水位已经超过了苏里州圣路易斯北部的一些小型河堤。

The Indians would trade their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands west of the Mississippi.

印第安人会用西西比河以东的土地用交换西西比河以西的土地。

Over thousands of years, the Mississippi's path has constantly wandered across the landscape of Louisiana.

几千年，西西比河的路径一直在路易斯安那州的土地上徘徊。

New Orleans is a port city at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

新奥尔良是西西比河口的港口城市。

Britain now claimed all the land from the east coast of North America to the Mississippi River.

英国宣称北美东海岸到西西比河的所有土地都归属英国。

These are called tributaries and one of them that flows into the Mississippi is the Missouri river.

这些被称为支流，其中一条流入西西比河的是苏里河。

Beginning around 1,900, the Mississippi's natural wandering course began to change again.

大约从 1900 年开始，西西比河的自然流动路线又开始改变。

Now, a severe summer drought that lowered the Mississippi river's water levels is to blame for this.

现在，严重的夏季干旱降低了西西比河的水位，这是罪魁祸首。

At one time, Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River.

图拉雷湖曾经是西西比河以西最大的淡水湖。

But the water levels of the Mississippi - that's a new one.

但西西比河的水位却是新的。

Hernando De Soto landed in Florida in 1539 and then explored all the way to the Mississippi River.

Hernando De Soto在1539年登上佛罗里达的土地并且探索了所有通往西西比河的道路。

The city has a central location where the Mississippi River comes down.

这座城市的中心位置是西西比河的源头。

Luckily, for now, Mississippi's levees are holding.

幸运的是，目前西西比河的堤坝还在。

In 1883, Twain again revisited his beloved river roots in " Life on the Mississippi" .

1883年，吐温在《西西比河上的生活》一书中再次重温了他的恋河情节。

Louisiana is where the great river that divides United States, the Mississippi River, ends.

路易斯安那州是分隔美国的大河西西比河的终点。

It only included the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.

它只包括从大西洋到西西比河的陆地。

The Interstate 40 Bridge over the Mississippi River was closed today and official said repairs could take months.

今天，西西比河上的40号州际大桥关闭，官方称维修可能需要数月时间。

By the middle eighteen-hundreds, almost all the eastern Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi River.

到18世纪中叶，几乎所有东部的印地安人都被移到西西比河以西的地区。