Ordinary levees are embankments meant to block flood waters, but significant flooding can flow over the top or seep through, breaking the levee and cascading into the area it's meant to protect.

普通堤坝是用来阻挡洪水的堤坝，但大量洪水可能会流过堤坝顶部或渗入堤坝，冲垮堤坝并流入堤坝所要保护的区域。

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

沿河的堤防是为了保护地区免受河流洪水的侵袭。

So, you know, they're constructing fast, but my my fear is that most of the roads are going to again became become an embankment.

就是这样，他们建造得很快，但我担心大路会再次成为路堤。

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

我踩到块积雪，脚下滑，竟然沿着路基滑了下去。

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。

They crawled over an embankment onto the wet grass.

他们爬上河堤，躺在漉漉的草地上。

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

正在进行加固河堤和修复受损路的工作。

Experts say the large embankment possibly exacerbated the accident.

专家说，大型堤坝可能加剧了事故的严重性。

Except for there's maybe one time last week when I was riding my bike and a kid threw a stick through the spokes causing me to fly over the handlebars and down a steep embankment into a pile of rocks.

除了上周有次，我骑自行车的时候，个小根棍子扔进了车轮辐条里，结果我被甩出了车，滚下了陡坡，摔进了堆石头里。

It slid on the icy roads at seven thirty in the morning, just west of the town of Odessa slip down in an embankment and then hit a freight train before landing on its side.

大巴车早上7点半在结冰的露面上滑下，地面在敖德萨西部，车子先是从堤上滑下，然后撞到辆货运车上，然后落在货运车的侧。

And the choices we make in how we adapt can sometimes come back to bite us-as in the case of embankments built in Bangladesh that were supposed to stop floods but have made them worse.

我们在如何适应环境方面做出的选择有时会招致祸事，以孟加拉国修建的堤坝为例，堤坝本来要抵挡洪水，却让情况雪上加霜。

Zhu Dongtie, head of Hunan's Department of Water Resources, said the embankment has not been used to prevent flooding since 1996, and it was built to a much lower standard than the dike.

湖南省水利厅厅长朱东铁称，自1996年以来，堤防未曾用于防洪，其建造标准低于普通堤坝。

I imagined lying again on a railroad embankment in Normandy, waiting to be told to go over it in spite of the bullets that were sweeping to and fro directly above me.

我曾想象着自己正在诺曼底趴在铁路路基上，尽管头上弹雨横飞，还等待着命令冲过去。

Then a bit of luck: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got stuck on the cement lip of the embankment ledge, stopping it cold.

当汽车冲向边缘时，它的底盘卡在了路堤边缘的水泥边缘上，车停了下来。

The plane with 132 people aboard finally stopped at a small embankment just feet away from the icy East River. Twenty-four people were hurt.

这架机上载有132名乘客的飞机最终在距离冰冻东河几英尺的地方停下。这事件造成24名乘客受伤，所幸无人死亡。

The embankment separates a natural lake and an aquaculture farm plus a lotus growing base which provide a living for thousands of locals.

人们将片自然湖泊，片水产养殖场以及荷花种植区分洪，当地千居民靠这片水域生活。

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

为了护城河所挖出的泥土，随后被用来建造防御堤坝，顶部覆盖着木栅栏。

Within 30 years, London's subway system covered 80 kilometers, with lines in the center of town running in tunnels, and suburban trains operating on the surface, often on embankments.

三十年间，伦敦地铁系统延伸至 80 公里，市中心的铁路在地下隧通行，郊区的铁路则设在地面上，尤其是河堤上。

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

英国人修建了堤防，防止洪水流过河岸。

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

吃了早饭，十点左右，我们下船来，到岸上去。