We got the news that the dam burst.

我们得到消息大坝决口了。

The dam! the dam! cried Gilbert, the dam has given way!

“大坝！大坝！”吉尔伯特叫了起来，“大坝决口了！”

The dam breach is part of the largest river restoration project ever undertaken in the United States.

大坝决口是美国有史以来最大的河流修复项目的一部分。

Efforts to plug the dike breach started on Saturday afternoon, after the water level in the lake went down.

6日下午， 待洞庭湖水位水位下降后，各工作组开始堤坝决口。

A total of 100,000 cubic meters of rock is needed to plug the whole gap, she said.

决口需要调度10万方块石。

The dike breach followed 17 days of heavy rainfall in Hunan, the longest continuous period of heavy rain since 1961.

堤坝决口前，湖南面临了17天暴，这是自1961年以来最长的连续暴。

The World Health Organization is warning that cholera could spread in areas of Ukraine affected by the burst of Kakhovka dam.

世界卫生组织，霍乱可能会在受Kakhovka大坝决口影响的乌克兰地区传播。

Can you imagine if the levees break again because of an avalanche?

你能想象堤坝再次因雪崩而决口吗？

To me, that was the water, the dam being broken.

对我来， 那就是水，是被决口的大坝。

And then by tea time, the dam had just sort of burst.

到了下午茶时分，堤坝终于决口了。

The levees were going to break.

堤坝即将决口。

Then in 1905, a canal breached and flooded the ancient lake bed with water from the Colorado River, which created an oasis.

1905 年，一条运河决口，科罗拉多河的水涌入古老的湖床，造就了一片绿洲。

Over the next two hours, all of Wixom Lake drained  through the breach in the dam.

在接下来的两个小时里，Wixom湖的所有水都通过大坝的决口排空了。

Then at the sound of a late sound  check confused as the beginning of the concert, the dam broke.

然后，在听到一次迟到的声音检查并误以为是音乐会开始后，人群如堤坝决口般涌动。

And yet, having water overtop an unprotected embankment  will almost certainly cause a breach and failure.

然而，水流越过未受保护的堤岸几乎肯定会引发决口和溃坝。

As the reservoir  continued to rise the following day, the dam suddenly broke, sending a wall of  water downstream.

随着水库在次日继续上涨，大坝突然决口， 汹涌的水流向下游奔去。

As the floodwaters rushed through the breach into the river, the  level downstream in Sanford Lake rose rapidly.

随着洪水从决口处涌入河流，下游Sanford湖的水位迅速上升。

The embankment, viewed as " the second line of defense" , is located about 2 kilometers from the breached dike and is 14.3 kilometers long, according to Xinhua News Agency.

据新华网报道，团洲垸作为“第二道防线”，全长14.3千米，距离堤坝决口仅2千米。

Yet the river also brought terrible suffering, historically flooding twice every three years and changing course every century. The terrible 1887 flood alone killed approximately 900,000 to 2 million people.

但与此同时，黄河“三年两决口，百年一改道，”也给人们带来了深重灾难。1887年的特大洪灾导致约90-200万人死亡。

Zhang Yingchun, Hunan's executive vice-governor, said more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock have been used in sealing off the breach, and crews had been sealing off 3.5 meters of the breach an hour.

湖南省常务副省长张迎春称，目前已使用了超过10万立方米的块石决口，每小时约3.5米。