We got the news that the dam burst.

们得到消息说大坝决口了。

A total of 100,000 cubic meters of rock is needed to plug the whole gap, she said.

封堵决口需要调度10万方块石。

The dam! the dam! cried Gilbert, the dam has given way!

“大坝！大坝！”吉尔伯特叫了起来，“大坝决口了！”

The dam breach is part of the largest river restoration project ever undertaken in the United States.

大坝决口是美国有史以来最大的河流修复项目的部分。

Efforts to plug the dike breach started on Saturday afternoon, after the water level in the lake went down.

6日下午， 待洞庭湖水位水位下降后，各工作组开始封堵堤坝决口。

Can you imagine if the levees break again because of an avalanche?

你能想象堤坝再次因雪崩而决口吗？

The World Health Organization is warning that cholera could spread in areas of Ukraine affected by the burst of Kakhovka dam.

世界卫生组织警告说，霍乱可能会在受Kakhovka大坝决口影响的乌克兰地区传播。

And yet, having water overtop an unprotected embankment  will almost certainly cause a breach and failure.

然而，水漫过未受保护的路堤几乎肯定会导致决口和破坏。

The dike breach followed 17 days of heavy rainfall in Hunan, the longest continuous period of heavy rain since 1961.

堤坝决口前，湖南面临了17天暴雨，这是自1961以来最长的连续暴雨。

Then in 1905, a canal breached and flooded the ancient lake bed with water from the Colorado River, which created an oasis.

1905 ，条运河决口，科罗拉多河的水涌入古老的湖床，造就了洲。

The embankment, viewed as " the second line of defense" , is located about 2 kilometers from the breached dike and is 14.3 kilometers long, according to Xinhua News Agency.

据新华网报道，团洲垸作为“第道防线”，全长14.3千米，距离堤坝决口仅2千米。

Yet the river also brought terrible suffering, historically flooding twice every three years and changing course every century. The terrible 1887 flood alone killed approximately 900,000 to 2 million people.

但与此同时，黄河“三两决口，百改道，”也给人们带来了深重灾难。1887的特大洪灾导致约90-200万人死亡。

Zhu Dongtie, head of Hunan's Department of Water Resources, said they need to drain about 200 million cubic meters of water and plan to use pumping equipment as soon as the breach is repaired.

湖南省水利厅厅长朱东铁称，此次堤防需要排出约2亿立方米的水，计划在封堵决口后立即使用抽水设备。

The people downstream of Oroville Dam, and indeed any large dam across the world, probably chose their home or workplace without  considering too carefully the consequences of a failure and breach.

奥罗维尔大坝下游的人们，实际上是世界上任何大型水坝的人们，可能在选择他们的住所或工作场所时， 都没有太仔细地考虑失败和决口的后果。

Zhang Yingchun, Hunan's executive vice-governor, said more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock have been used in sealing off the breach, and crews had been sealing off 3.5 meters of the breach an hour.

湖南省常务副省长张迎春称，目前已使用了超过10万立方米的块石封堵决口，每小时封堵约3.5米。

No water seepage exiting the downstream face of  the embankment or eroding soil was evident in the time leading up to the breach, ruling this  mechanism out as the main cause of failure.

在决口之前， 没有明显的水从路堤下游面渗出， 也没有侵蚀土壤，因此排除了这种机制是失败的主要原因。