It prevents erosion and reduces the risk of flooding.

保护堤不被流水侵蚀，并减少洪水的风险。

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

密西西比的水位过了密苏里州圣路易斯北部的一些小型堤。

She found herself back on the riverbank where our story began.

她发现她回到了我们的故事开始时所在的堤上。

By strengthening the river banks, the city secured itself against floods.

通过加强堤，该市可以免遭水灾。

One villager told county officials to tear down his house to repair the riverbank.

一名村名让县官员推倒他的房屋来维修堤。

At 4 AM on Sunday, a riverbank collapsed in Shengli Village.

周日下午4点，胜利村一处堤垮塌。

After 6 hours of work, the riverbank was repaired.

过六个小时的抢修，堤被重新修复。

But when they tried to climb back out, the banks were steep and slippery.

但当它往回爬的时候，堤又陡又滑。

They crawled over an embankment onto the wet grass.

他们爬上堤，躺在湿漉漉的草地上。

Jack looked over the edge of the riverbank.

杰克仔细地看了看堤的边缘。

Flooding is expected to continue to several days as rivers and creeks overflow their banks.

预计未来几天洪水还将持续，流和小溪的水位过堤。

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

正在进行加固堤和修复受损道路的工作。

Once drilled into the river banks, these branches help to reduce the force of the water.

一旦被插到堤上，这些树枝可以帮助减少水流的力量。

So he is kind of snuggling up to her on the bank here with his love poetry.

拉山德一边与她依偎在堤一边吟诵着情诗。

Let me explain these words. In the land of Egypt the river Nile overflows its banks once a year.

让我来解释一下这句话。在埃及，尼罗每年会有一次溢出堤。

The New River burst its banks over the weekend. Jason Padilla paddled in a canoe through what had been streets.

纽的堤在周末的时候淹没。詹森·帕迪利亚只得乘小舟穿过了这些街道。

A tidy embankment is so pretty they call it " little Venice."

一个整洁的堤非常漂亮，他们称它为“小威尼斯”。

They always build their huts on the banks of rivers orlakes, for they swim much more easily than they walk, and prefer moving about in the water.

它们总喜欢将自己的住所建造在堤或湖边。因为它们在水中比在岸上行走更容易些，所以它们更喜欢在水中移动。

Hundreds of homes along the River Thames in southern England are being evacuated after the river burst its banks and swept into villages and towns, west of London.

在英格兰南部的泰晤士沿岸，由于水冲破堤并蔓延到伦敦西部的村庄和城镇，数百户人家撤离。

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道通行，郊区的铁路则设在地面上，尤其是堤上。