What is the dike upon which it is built?

建造它的堤坝是什么？

They've constructed dykes, dams, floodgates, canals, pumping stations, and more all in their effort to push the sea back.

他们修建了堤坝、水坝、水闸、运河、抽水站，以及更多的设施，都是为了把海水推回去。

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堤坝都被冲破了，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水重重包围了。

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，黄浦江江岸的片地方曾是列强的殖民地，虽然堤坝明显改变了外滩的，片地带上依不少颇具意义的建筑物保存至今。

So we're going to have to start armoring the Mall with larger and larger dikes.

因而我们得开始用越来越大的堤坝加固国家广场。

It's a 14.5-mile levee that protects the city of Corcoran, the two state prisons.

是一条14.5英里长的堤坝，保护着科科伦市和两座州立监狱。

When a storm threatens, densely populated older districts are protected by traditional dikes.

当一场暴雨逼近，人口密集的会被传统的堤坝保护。

Some of the money is given to help local beavers build their dams.

部分收入将被捐赠用于帮助本地海狸修筑堤坝。

And key to this canal systems design were barrages: Dam like infrastructure that raised the river's upstream water level so that water can be funneled into canals with gates that open and close depending on water supply and demand.

种运河系统设计的关键是堤坝：像水坝一样的基础设施，可以提高河流上游的水位，样水就可以流入运河，闸门可以根据水的供应和需求打开和关闭。

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

建造护堤，有点像堤坝。

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.

即使水流到了顶端，也会顺着斜坡缓缓流下 而不是像标准堤坝那样一泻而下，就像标准堤坝那样。

Up to three hundred people are missing and feared dead in Brazil after a dam collapsed at a mining complex in the state of Minas Gerais.

巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州的一座矿坑堤坝坍塌，导致将近300人失踪，并且恐怕已经遇难。

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。

Mounds like this can be seen all along the east coast of China.

像样的连岛堤坝在中国的东部沿海也有所见。

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.

导致堤坝垮塌的因很多，并非全都是狂风暴雨所致。而且堤坝数量众多（仅在美国就有十万英里的在用堤坝），难以对所有的堤坝状况都进行密切监视。

The Australian mining giant BHP Billiton says it will fight a decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court to suspend a settlement for damages imposed after a dam burst at an iron ore mine.

澳大利亚矿业巨头必和必拓公司称其对巴西高级法院的判决不服，想延迟赔偿因堤坝崩塌造成的铁矿事故。

Volunteers and emergency workers raced to secure river banks in Poland's historic city of Wroclaw on Tuesday as nearby municipalities advised residents to evacuate and authorities across Europe said 22 people have died in floods.

志愿者和应急救援人员周二在波兰历史名城弗罗茨瓦夫的河岸上争分夺秒地加固堤坝，附近城镇建议居民撤离，欧洲各地当局表示，洪水已造成22人死亡。

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。

" In the past, researchers had to learn the conditions of the dike on the spot by themselves, putting their lives at risk, " said Zhao Xiaoxiong from the bureau.

“过去，研究人员必须亲自到现场采获堤坝的情况，但样非常危险”，河南河务局信息中心赵潇雄说道。

So he turned up his collar and shuffled across the top of the dam (luckily it wasn't so slippery since the snow had fallen) to the far side of the river.

所以他竖起衣领，拖着脚步，穿过堤坝顶部（幸亏下了雪，上面才没那么滑），向远处河边走去。