The first line of defense was to dam the region's flood-prone estuaries.

第一道防线，是在该地区易受洪水侵袭的河口筑坝。

The National Guard delivered sandbags on Wednesday to dam the breached canal in the City of Columbia.

周三在哥伦比亚城，国民警卫队正在用沙袋对受损运河筑坝。

Beavers building dams, pretty hard work and bees flying around all day collecting pollen to make honey.

海狸筑坝，相当辛苦的工作，蜜蜂整天飞来飞去收集花粉来制造蜂蜜。

Fish, in open pools, were not too quick for him; nor were beaver, mending their dams, too wary.

在开阔的水塘里, 他比鱼儿游得还快, 比会筑坝的河狸还要机警, 因而丧在他腹中。

In the 1800s, many rivers in the American West were diverted for irrigation or dammed for generating electricity.

在19，国西部的许多河流改道用于溉或筑坝发电。

The Wildlife Trusts say the dam building animals bring huge benefits, such as helping to alleviate flooding and drought.

物信托基金表示，这种筑坝物带来了巨大的好处，比如帮助缓解洪水和干旱。

Last month, it said it would cut aid to Ethiopia due to its unilateral decision to start filling the dam.

上个月，国表示将削减对埃塞俄比亚的援助，因为埃塞俄比亚单方面决定开始筑坝蓄水。

The first line of defense was to dam the region’s flood-prone estuaries.

第一道防线是在该地区易受洪水侵袭的河口筑坝。

While the other children started the dam, Jessie washed all their stockings.

当其他孩子开始筑坝时，杰西洗了他们所有的袜子。

Reminds me of how we beavers build dams, work with water instead of against it.

这让我想起了我们河狸筑坝的方式，顺应水流而非逆流而。

The aim is for the beavers to help boost wildlife and prevent flooding by building dams on the rivers.

目标是让河狸通过在河流中筑坝来帮助提升植物数量并防止洪水。

The unbelievers follow the flow of their filth, and thus we must dam the flow, push its path to them.

不信者随其污秽之流而，故我等须筑坝阻流， 迫其归途。

So, people want water from rivers and lakes for building out cities – for helping to cool turbines– or damming rivers, ” he said.

人们想获得河流湖泊里的水来建造城市，来冷却涡轮或在河流上筑坝。”

They cannot dam the river and control it, because that focuses attention on what they take, it brings down eventual destruction.

他们无法在河流上筑坝并控制它，因为这会把注意力集中在他们拿走的东西上，它会带来最终的破坏。

And their dam- and lodge-building behaviors may have evolved as a way for them to survive hard winters at higher latitudes.

它们筑坝和建巢的行为可能是为了在高纬度地区度过严冬而进化出来的。

We dammed up all of San Diego rivers, and we utterly blanketed the entire landscape with houses, with schools, with golf courses.

我们在圣地亚哥的所有河流上筑坝，并在整个地区修建房屋、学校和高尔夫球场。

If we were to dam the Ru River, they will have no water to drink and their army would be thrown into chaos.

如果把汝江筑坝，他们就无水可喝，他们的军队就会大乱。

But if trees are not available, he can do without them; he can cut logs, roll them into place, and make a dam wholly out of logs.

但如果没有树，他也可以照样建造；他可以砍伐原木，把它们滚到合适的地方，然后完全用原木筑坝。

Beavers create dams under the cover of darkness, not because they care about urban flooding, they have an instinct to create pools of deep water to hide in.

海狸在黑暗的掩护下筑坝，不是因为它们关心城市洪水，而是它们有一种本能，能造出深水潭躲藏起来。

Sudani said they also discussed ways to combat drought and climate change, and to secure water supplies that are dwindling as a result of upstream damming by Turkiye.

苏达尼说，他们还讨论了应对干旱和气候变化的方法，以及如何确保因土耳其在上游筑坝而日益减少的水资源供应。