They're daming the river so they can trap all the fish.

他们河上筑坝 就可以困住所有的鱼了。

The first line of defense was to dam the region's flood-prone estuaries.

第一道防线，是该地区易受洪水侵袭的河口筑坝。

In the 1800s, many rivers in the American West were diverted for irrigation or dammed for generating electricity.

19世纪，美国西部的许多河流改道用于灌溉或筑坝发电。

The National Guard delivered sandbags on Wednesday to dam the breached canal in the City of Columbia.

周三哥伦比亚城，国民警卫队正用沙袋对受损运河筑坝。

Beavers building dams, pretty hard work and bees flying around all day collecting pollen to make honey.

海狸筑坝，相当辛苦的工作，蜜蜂整天飞来飞去收集花粉来制造蜂蜜。

Fish, in open pools, were not too quick for him; nor were beaver, mending their dams, too wary.

开阔的水塘里, 他比鱼儿游得还, 比会筑坝的河狸还要机警, 因而丧生他腹中。

Last month, it said it would cut aid to Ethiopia due to its unilateral decision to start filling the dam.

上个月，美国表示将削减对埃塞俄比亚的援助，因为埃塞俄比亚单方面决定开始筑坝蓄水。

The first line of defense was to dam the region’s flood-prone estuaries.

第一道防线是该地区易受洪水侵袭的河口筑坝。

While the other children started the dam, Jessie washed all their stockings.

当其他孩子开始筑坝时，杰西洗了他们所有的袜子。

In nature, collective construction is used for building nests, dams, even bridges.

自然界中，集体建设用于筑巢、筑坝，甚至桥梁。

So, people want water from rivers and lakes for building out cities – for helping to cool turbines– or damming rivers, ” he said.

人们想获得河流湖泊里的水来建造城市，来冷却涡轮或河流上筑坝。”

They cannot dam the river and control it, because that focuses attention on what they take, it brings down eventual destruction.

他们无法河流上筑坝并控制它，因为这会把注意力集中他们拿走的东西上，它会带来最终的破坏。

But if trees are not available, he can do without them; he can cut logs, roll them into place, and make a dam wholly out of logs.

但如果没有树，他也可以照样建造；他可以砍伐原木，把它们滚到合适的地方，然后完全用原木筑坝。

Beavers create dams under the cover of darkness, not because they care about urban flooding, they have an instinct to create pools of deep water to hide in.

海狸黑暗的掩护下筑坝，不是因为它们关心城市洪水，而是它们有一种本能，能造出深水潭躲藏起来。

Sudani said they also discussed ways to combat drought and climate change, and to secure water supplies that are dwindling as a result of upstream damming by Turkiye.

苏达尼说，他们还讨论了应对干旱和气候变化的方法，以及如何确保因土耳其上游筑坝而日益减少的水资源供应。

" Then it will be deep enough to swim in and won't be too deep for Benny. We'll build the dam here with logs and stones."

“那水就够深了，可以游泳，而且对本尼来说不会太深。我们会用原木和石头这里筑坝。”

I had no idea Tulare Lake was once the biggest freshwater body west of the Mississippi, but it was dammed and dived and drained to build a $2 billion agriculture industry.

我之前并不知道图拉雷湖曾经是密西西比河以西最大的淡水湖，后来为了建立一个价值20亿美元的农业产业，人们这个湖泊筑坝、下潜和排水。

So in the northwest where I grew up, most of the big rivers have been dammed, which makes it super hard for salmon to survive and many runs have gone extinct.

所以我长大的西北地区，大部分的大河都被筑坝了，这使得鲑鱼很难生存，许多鱼类已经灭绝。

" Damming and submerging it 175 feet deep would enhance its beauty by forming a crystal-clear lake" . Landscape gardens, places of recreation and worship, are never made beautiful by destroying and burying them.

“ 175 英尺深的地方筑坝并淹没它会形成一个水晶般清澈的湖泊，从而增强它的美感”。风景园林，娱乐和礼拜场所，永远不会因摧毁和掩埋而变得美丽。