levees

levees

美 [ˈlevi] 　英 [ˈleveɪ]

• n.码头；〈英〉(国王专对男臣举行的)早朝；(法国宫廷的)早朝
• v.筑堤
• 网络堤防；大堤；防洪堤

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Levees have changed that. Until Katrina, the Mississippi had not flooded in or around the city in almost 80 years.

将近80年里密西西比河附近的城市都没有发生过水灾，但卡特里娜过后堤坝已经发生了变化。

But the hastily built levees will still have to hold up against the ice-laden water that's expected to remain high for at least a week.

不过，临时建起的大堤仍旧要控制住融雪覆盖的洪水，此次洪水预计会保持高位至少一周。

Then, in the last years of the eighteen hundreds, several area levees broke under suspicious conditions.

然而，在19世纪的最后几年，有几个地方在可疑的情况下发生了决堤事件。

The state fears at least 20 levees have been compromised in low-lying communities along the Missouri River.

在沿着密苏里河的低洼地区，该州担心至少有20处防堤被洪水淹没。

At least 200 homes have been evacuated in the southern part of the state as water poured through bridges and levees.

由于洪水漫过了桥梁和大堤，该州南部地区至少已有200个家庭被疏散。

On the list of infrastructure that was drawn up in 2000, at the top of the priority was New Orleans levees.

2000年草拟的基础设施建设清单上，首要任务就是建设新奥尔良的防洪堤坝；

So far, about 240 people who fled when levees broke and destroyed their homes have been able to return.

迄今为止，在大堤决口时房子被洪水冲毁的约240人得以重返家园。

Federal officials briefed the president on efforts to shore-up levees along the Mississippi River and help those displaced by the flooding.

联邦官员向布什总统通报了有关部门加固密西西比河沿岸堤坝和帮助那些在洪水灾害中无家可归的人们的努力。

As lava moves through a channel, overflows build natural levees along the sides, which can eventually connect and harden, forming a canopy.

由于熔岩的举动透过管道，建立自然溢出堤防沿线两岸，最终可以连接和硬化，形成一个天篷。

Authorities are keeping a close eye on levees where volunteers have been adding thousands upon thousands of sandbags to shore them up.

当局正严密关注防洪堤坝，数千志愿者在那里堆积沙袋加固大坝。

Ahead of the deluge, some intrepid homeowners tried to save their houses by building makeshift earthen levees.

在洪水来袭前，有些胆大的居民尝试建造临时的“山寨”堤坝来保护家园。

But these words do not: flood, drought, hurricane, rising sea levels, bursting levees.

但是洪水、干旱、飓风、海平面上升、堤坝断裂这些词汇却令人惧怕。

It has already broken through a number of levees across Missouri.

洪水已经冲垮了密西西比河上的数座堤坝。

The continent, the levees are the three towers, shadow into a lake, the so-called "three" also.

堤东有洲，旁有三塔，影入湖中，所谓“三潭印月”也。

But experts say the situation would have been far worse if not for the levees, spillways and other flood controls built along the river.

但是专家说，如果不是堤坝，溢洪道和其他控制洪水设施的阻挡，情况可能会更糟。

Tractors are tilling the land and building earthen rows that will serve as levees once water flows into these fields.

拖拉机在耕地，并且建起一道道田埂，等水流进这些农田时，这些田埂就能起到河堤的作用。

The regional boards overseeing the river levees, once a patronage playpen, have been restructured and professionalised.

地区委员会所在之地俯视河岸，曾经接受赞助建立了护栏，如今重新建造并且修建得十分专业。

The president was in Europe when heavy rains began forcing rivers over their banks and levees.

美国中西部降暴雨导致河水漫出河岸和堤防的时候，布什正在欧洲访问。

Some of these levees are higher and longer than the Great Wall of China.

在这些大堤中，有些比中国的长城还要高还要长。

That, the girls eventually the collapse of the Levees Broke, she thought: Perhaps, they had no future!

那间，女孩终于决堤崩溃，她心里想：或许，他们再也没有未来了！

The sides of the flow can also cool faster than the center, leading to the formation of wall-like structures known as flow levees.

边缘的熔岩要比中间的冷却的快，这样就形成了像墙一样的结构，我们称之为流堤。

Levees in New Orleans are expected to hold, though the storm's surge could still flood the city as water over tops levees.

新奥尔良的防洪堤预计不会受损，但风暴造成的浪潮可能会令水位高过大堤，从而淹没城市。

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled floodwaters after the Indus River smashed through levees.

印度河堤坝冲垮后数十万巴基斯坦人逃离洪水。

When a typhoon attacks, evacuating gates must be closed in time to secure the lives and properties inside the levees .

由于在台风来袭期间疏散门必须适时的予以关闭，以确保堤内居民生命财产安全。

The state fears at least20 levees have been compromised in low-lying communities along the Missouri River.

该州担心在密苏里河沿岸的处于低洼地区的社区的至少20个防洪坝受到了洪水威胁。

The mighty Mississippi River broke through or flowed over the tops of dirt levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

汹涌的密西西比河冲跨并淹没了爱荷华州、伊利诺斯州和密苏里州最高的泥筑堤坝。

Levees hold back the river and giant pumps are used to move water from the city into the river.

堤岸抑制了河水，巨大的水管被用来把城市中的水排入河里。

Next year the US army corp of engineers will hand over operation of a rebuilt system of levees, walls and flood gates.

明年美国工程兵部队的工程师们将接手负责操作系统重建堤坝，围墙及防洪门。

Right now officials fear dozens more levees along the Mississippi River may overflow.

现在官方害怕密西西比河沿岸更多的防洪堤会决堤。

Opening a channel, the Morganza spillway, is meant to relieve pressure on the levees protecting the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

打开Morganza泄洪道是为了缓解保护巴吞鲁日和新奥尔良的堤坝的压力。

At least 22 levees in the three flood-stricken states have already been topped by flood waters this week.

受灾地区这周至少有22座防洪坝被大水冲毁。

This image was taken shortly after high waters breached New Orleans' levees and flooded the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

受飓风卡特里娜影响，洪水淹没了新奥尔良，这照片就是在这之后不久拍摄的。

Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.

这些工作，将让我们破败不堪的道路、桥梁和堤坝得以重建，从而让那些发生在新奥尔良和明尼阿波利斯的悲剧永不再现。

The work of repairing our crumbling roads and bridges, and our dangerously deficient dams and levees.

工作包括修理我们破旧的公路和桥梁，以及我们处于危险境况的大坝和堤坝。

levees are needed in floodplains , where soils tend to be wet and can change every 100 yards along a proposed route.

滥平原需要海堤，因为这里的土壤通常相当湿润，同时筑堤预定路线上的土质往往每隔100公尺就不一样。

There were more evacuations in Missouri where levees have been topped by rising flood waters.

在密苏里州，因洪水泛滥许多防洪堤被水覆盖了，越来越多的居民都搬迁了。

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours. . .

它是当堤坝溃决后收留一个陌生人的仁善，它是那些宁愿减少自己的工时…

Ongoing efforts toinvestigate and repair the levees have been met with opposition from localofficials, who question the Corps' analysis.

正在努力进行的调查和修缮工作遭到了当地政府的阻挠，他们质疑部队的分析结论。

Second, flood control levees , and dikes built along rivers alter and destroy aquatic habitats.

其次，沿河被修造的防洪堤坝和堤堰会改变并且毁坏水生生物的栖所。

Unlike New Orleans, the levees of the global economy have broken, one after another.

与新奥尔良不同，全球经济的防洪大堤已一次又一次被冲垮。