All of the levees along the Missouri River have broken, and the towns of Portage Des Sioux and West Alton, which sit at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, have been completely isolated by water.

密苏里河沿岸的所有都被冲破了，以及密苏里河与密西西比河交汇处，的波蒂奇德苏和西奥尔顿两镇也都完全被重重包围了。

The most popular place to go for a stroll is the Bund, Shanghai's Colonial riverfront along Huangpu River, while levees have significantly changed the Bund's appearance, a number of architecturally significant buildings are adjacent to the strip and are still visible.

最佳的散步去处就是外滩，黄浦江江岸的这片地方曾是列强的殖民地，虽然明显改变了外滩的原貌，这片地带上依旧不少颇具意义的建筑物保存至今。

One of the worst levee failures was in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2005.

其中最严重的一次决事故发生在2005年路易斯安那州的新奥尔良。

And even if water reached the top, it would flow slowly down the slope instead of cascading down, like it would with a standard levee.

即到了顶端，也会顺着斜坡缓缓下 而不是像标准那样一泻而下，就像标准那样。

Building a berm, which is kind of like a levee.

建，有点像。

Louisiana's governor says the already swollen Mississippi River could overflow levees guarding the city.

路易斯安那州长称已经涨起的密西西比河或冲破保卫城市的岸。

The river levels are rising and officials want to relive pressure on the city's levees.

河位正在上升，官员们希望缓解河对该市防洪的压力。

Levees fail for many reasons, not all of them associated with violent storms, and there are so many of them (100,000 miles-worth in America alone) that keeping an eye on all of them is an almost impossible task.

导致垮塌的原因很多，并非全都是狂风暴雨所致。而且数量众多（仅在美国就有十万英里的在用），难以对所有的状况都进行密切监视。

" Going home? Ah, you are happy that you haf a home to go in, " he said, when she told him, and sat silently pulling his beard in the corner, while she held a little levee on that last evening.

“要回家了？啊，你真幸福，有个家能回去，”乔告诉他的时候他说道，坐在角落里默不作声地扯着胡子，她呢，在那天晚上搞了一个小小的聚会。

Many people have decided to sit out the storm in their homes, confident in the work done and the billions spent on the levees and new flood barriers to prevent the city from being flooded this time around.

许多人决定呆在家里等暴风雨结束，他们对实现做的工作和花在提防和新防洪上的数百万资金很信赖，相信这次该市可以免受洪肆虐。

" Every 100 minutes, the Louisiana wetlands is losing an area as big as a football field due to canalling, levee building and rising sea level."

每100分钟，路易斯安那州就会失去一个足球场那么大面积的湿地，原因是开凿运河、修建和海平面上升。

I mean, our dogs - we don't even take our dogs out on the levee until the sun goes down, which is very much to their chagrin.

我们的狗狗，我们甚至在太阳下山前都不会带狗狗在外面的码头溜达，这让狗狗非常委屈。

Some years people get lucky and the levees hold, says Jeffrey Mount, a water expert at the Public Policy Institute of California, a think-tank.

加州公共政策研究所(一个智囊团)的资源专家杰弗里·芒特说，有些年份人们运气好，防洪还能撑得住。

It caused catastrophic failure in the levees that protected the city from flooding, contributing to the deaths of 1,500 people.

保城市免受洪灾的防洪被破坏，导致1，500人死亡。

When the sea broke through the levee 12 years ago, Takalar took his family back to their home on the island of Sulawesi.

12年前，海冲垮防波的时候，塔卡拉带着家人回到了他们在苏拉威西岛的那个家。

The levees that were designed to contain it were not built up to standards high enough to overcome this and many failed.

被设计用来控制它的没有达到足够高的标准来克服这个问题，许多都失败了。

Next year the US army corp of engineers will hand over operation of a rebuilt system of levees, walls and flood gates.

明年美国工程兵部队的工程师们将接手负责操作系统重建，围墙及防洪门。

Now, as you can see the structure, we have levees here on the sides, and then internal structures as well.

就像你看到的外面的这些结构和里面这些结构一样。

Some 1,800 people are believed to have died as a result of that storm and the levees were later repaired.

据信，大约1800人死于那场风暴，后来得到了修复。

Kammeyer knows that if a significant amount of water breaches the levee, that would prevent him from planting his fields.

凯米尔知道, 如果大量的河在上冲出缺口, 就会阻碍他在田间的种植。