" I shall get the boat across the moat, " says Goat.

“我要坐船过城河。”山羊说。

The Forbidden City's sprawling complex of 980 buildings covers an area of over 180 acres and is surrounded by 26-foot tall, 20-foot deep wall as well as a 170 foot wide moat which served as defensive measures throughout history.

紫禁城由980个建筑复杂地组成，占地70多公顷（180英亩），被8米高6米深城墙保，并且还设置了一条宽为52米城河，起到保作用。

Building near water is one tactic. But moats are not the only defence.

建在水边是一种策略。但城河并不是唯一防御手段。

Which can shield domestic manufacturers from foreign competition.

这确实能为本土制造商筑起抵御外企业竞城河。

Combining River and soldier forms " Guo" , the word for " country" .

（家需要有城河阻挡外来入侵，并在军队卫下才能得以安宁）“河”和“兵”结合而得到“”字。

Well it certainly does. We know that in 1295 Antony Bek, Bishop of Durham, acquired this place and he built a palatial manor house with a large moat around it.

确实是这样。我们知道 1295 年达勒姆主教安东尼·贝克收购了这里，并建造了一座富丽堂皇，围有一条城河。

It's got an apartment nearby and the 75-acre property includes its own moat because it was built on a pond.

它在附近有一个公寓，75英亩房产包括它自己城河，因为它建在一个池塘上。

Over time, this made the waters inside of the lagoon deeper and deeper and increased the scale of Venice's moat and therefore increased their safety from the mainland.

随着时间推移，这使得泻湖内水越来越深，增加了威尼斯城河规模，因此增加了它们与大陆隔绝安全距离。

Oh, I'm on hold. I'm booking us into a converted castle in Tuscany for our anniversary. - Does it have a moat?

我在等电话，我为咱们年纪念给咱俩预定了托斯卡纳一座翻新城堡。 - 它有城河吗？

The earth excavated to form the moat was then used to create defensive embankments that were topped with a wooden palisade.

为了城河所挖出泥土，随后被用来建造防御堤坝，顶部覆盖着木栅栏。

When we came to the moat, we stopped near some trees and the six men hid there with the horses.

我们来到城河附近，在树丛里停了下来，那六个人和我们马藏在里面。

You may have noticed that cherry blossoms often line the moats of castles and canals, their reflections amplifying the spectacle.

您可能注意到樱花常种植在城堡城河和运河边，水中倒影更添景致。

Where there's a water source, there are alligators, so it's sort of this moat of protection around these colonies.

有水源地方就会有鳄鱼，因此就像这些殖民地城河一样。

The pyramid itself may have been surrounded by a moat that helped direct water into these vertical shafts.

金字塔本身可能被城河环绕，有助于将水引入这些垂直竖井。

No, it's not. I see no turrets. I see no flags. I see no moat full of vodka.

不，这不是。我看不到炮塔。也看不到旗帜。更看不到流满伏特加城河。

I ran out on to the bridge and jumped down into the moat.

我冲过吊桥，也跳进了城河。

They had the bones of all of the medieval moat and walls and things like that.

他们有所有中世纪城河和城墙之类东西骨头。

To pay the dwarf who will lower the drawbridge if we answer his riddles three?

让小矮人放下城河上吊桥，只要我们能够回答出他三个谜语？

The permits, granted by local governments for up to 30 years, are a moat against competitors.

这些由地方政府颁发最长可达30年许可证，是对抗竞对手一道城河。

He stepped closer to the moat.

他走近城河。