Nick, out late drinking again, piled into a bridge abutment at speed, was airlifted to ICU.

尼克又熬夜喝酒了，开车时撞上了桥墩，被送到了重症监护室。

So, arch bridges normally need strong abutments at either side to push against that can withstand the extra horizontal loads.

所以，拱桥通常需要在两侧有坚固的桥台来抵承受额外的平荷载。

Instead of transferring the arch thrusts into an abutment, you can tie the two ends together with a horizontal chord.

与其将拱的推力传递到桥台，你可以用一根平弦杆将两端连接起来。

The gates stayed open until February 27th, nearly three weeks after the whole mess started, revealing the havoc to the dam's right abutment.

闸门一开着到2月27日，几乎是整个混乱开始后的三周，暴露出大坝右岸的破坏情况。

Additional cables, called backstays, were connected to anchorages behind each tower to balance the horizontal forces, similar to the way suspension bridges work with their towers and abutment anchorages.

额外的后拉索连接到每座塔后面的锚固点，以平衡平力，类似于悬索桥通过其塔和岸墩锚固点来作的原理。