The British built embankments to keep floodwater from flowing past the river's banks.

英人修建了堤防，防止洪水流过河岸。

The embankments along the river were built to protect regions from riverine flooding.

沿河的堤防是为了保护地免受河流洪水的侵袭。

But the government and powerful landowners are known to breach these embankments on purpose.

但众所周知，政府和强大的土地所有者故意破坏这些堤防。

It was blocked by the system of canals, embankments and wastewater drains built parallel to the river.

它被与河流平行的运河、堤防和污水排水渠系统所阻塞。

The country is protected by a system of polders, dikes, and dams — but for how long?

这受到一套由堤防、堤坝组成的体系的保护，但能维持多久呢？

The levee project had become one of the central tentpoles of their life.

堤防工程已成为他们生活中的重中之重之一。

And the levee broke and flooded our whole neighborhood.

当时堤防溃堤我们那一带全没了。

Around half of that figure has  been set aside for the Dike itself, which is much more than a simple seawall.

该数字的大约一半已预留给堤防本身，这不仅仅是一简单的海堤。

Li Heng, leader of the expert team, said the most important work is to reinforce the embankment, which separates the flooded township from other areas.

专组组长李恒表示，最重要的工作是加固堤防，将没域与其他地。

The ministry has dispatched three work teams to the provincial regions of Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi to guide local flood-control work, including strengthening dike inspection and relocating people under threat.

水利部增派 3 工作组分赴山东、河南、陕西，指导督促做好各项防范应对工作，包括加强堤防的巡查防守和人员的转移避险。

Zhu Dongtie, head of Hunan's Department of Water Resources, said the embankment has not been used to prevent flooding since 1996, and it was built to a much lower standard than the dike.

湖南省水利厅厅长朱东铁称，自1996年以来，堤防未曾用于防洪，其建造标准低于普通堤坝。

Yes, so I went to the police station to pick her up.She told me what happened to her.She told me that she realised a fastener on her bag was open at Embankment Station.

是的，所以我去警察局接她。她告诉我发生了什么事，她说她在“堤防站”发现包包的拉链是着的。

There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and change their course;it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.

这些野牛比欧洲的牡牛大，腿和尾巴都很短，前肩高耸形成一肉峰，两角分向下弯曲，头颈和双肩都满了长鬃毛。这种牛群的移动是无法阻拦的。当它们朝着某一方向前进的时候，谁也不能叫它们停止或者改变方狗。它们简直是活肉形成的河流，任何堤防也挡不住。

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。

When you come to a hill or a bank, occupy the sunny side, with the slope on your right rear. Thus you will at once act for the benefit of your soldiers and utilize the natural advantages of the ground.

丘陵堤防，必处其阳而右背之，此兵之利，地之助也。

It is the very conflict between those claims, say, the competing views of dike in the Oresteia or nomos in the Antigone, that both makes up and shakes up the experience of justice in tragedy.

正是这些主张之间的冲突，比如说，奥瑞斯忒亚中堤防的相互竞争的观点或安提戈涅中的诺莫斯，两者都构成并动摇了悲剧中的正义体验。