The Gateway Arch towers above St. Louis on the banks of the Mississippi River.

圣路易斯的西进之门伫立在密西西比河的河。

Four Asian carp species now live in much of the Mississippi River.

四种亚洲在生活在密西西比河的大部分地区。

The Mississippi is overtopping a few small levees north of St. Louis and Missouri.

密西西比河的水位已经超过了密苏里州圣路易斯北部的一些小型河堤。

The Indians would trade their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands west of the Mississippi.

印第安人会用密西西比河以的土地用交换密西西比河以西的土地。

Over thousands of years, the Mississippi's path has constantly wandered across the landscape of Louisiana.

几千年，密西西比河的路径一直在路易斯安那州的土地上徘徊。

New Orleans is a port city at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

新奥尔良是密西西比河口的港口城市。

Britain now claimed all the land from the east coast of North America to the Mississippi River.

英国宣称北美到密西西比河的所有土地都归属英国。

These are called tributaries and one of them that flows into the Mississippi is the Missouri river.

这些被称为支流，其中一条流入密西西比河的是密苏里河。

Beginning around 1,900, the Mississippi's natural wandering course began to change again.

大约从 1900 年开始，密西西比河的自然流动路线又开始改变。

Now, a severe summer drought that lowered the Mississippi river's water levels is to blame for this.

在，严重的夏季干旱降低了密西西比河的水位，这是罪魁祸首。

At one time, Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River.

图拉雷湖曾经是密西西比河以西最大的淡水湖。

But the water levels of the Mississippi - that's a new one.

但密西西比河的水位却是新的。

Hernando De Soto landed in Florida in 1539 and then explored all the way to the Mississippi River.

Hernando De Soto在1539年登上佛罗里达的土地并且探索了所有通往密西西比河的道路。

The city has a central location where the Mississippi River comes down.

这座城市的中心位置是密西西比河的源头。

Luckily, for now, Mississippi's levees are holding.

幸运的是，目前密西西比河的堤坝还在。

In 1883, Twain again revisited his beloved river roots in " Life on the Mississippi" .

1883年，吐温在《密西西比河上的生活》一书中再次重温了他的恋河情节。

Louisiana is where the great river that divides United States, the Mississippi River, ends.

路易斯安那州是分隔美国的大河密西西比河的终点。

It only included the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.

它只包括从大西洋到密西西比河的陆地。

The Interstate 40 Bridge over the Mississippi River was closed today and official said repairs could take months.

今天，密西西比河上的40号州际大桥关闭，官方称维修可能需要数月时间。

By the middle eighteen-hundreds, almost all the eastern Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi River.

到18世纪中叶，几乎所有部的印地安人都被移到密西西比河以西的地区。