It prevents erosion and reduces the risk of flooding.

保护河堤不被流水侵蚀，并减少洪水的风险。

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

通过加强河堤，该市可以免遭水灾。

Jack looked over the edge of the riverbank.

杰克仔细地看了看河堤的边缘。

After 6 hours of work, the riverbank was repaired.

经过六个小的抢修，河堤被重新修复。

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

周日下午4点，胜利村一处河堤垮塌。

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

正在进行加固河堤和修复受损道路的工作。

They crawled over an embankment onto the wet grass.

他们爬上河堤，躺在湿漉漉的草地上。

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所在的河堤上。

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河堤。

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

但当它往回爬的候，河堤又陡又滑。

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河堤一边吟诵着诗。

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，河流和小溪的水位已经超过河堤。

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

密西西比河的水位已经超过了密苏里州圣路易斯北部的一些小型河堤。

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

一旦被插到河堤上，这些树枝可以帮助减少水流的力量。

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，尼罗河每年会有一次溢出河堤。

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

纽河的河堤已经在周末的候淹没。詹森·帕迪利亚只得乘小舟穿过了这些街道。

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河堤或湖边。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河沿岸，由于河水冲破河堤并蔓延到伦敦西部的村庄和城镇，数百户人家已经撤离。

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，尤其是河堤上。

So Death picked up a stone from the riverbank and gave it to the second brother, and told him that the stone would have the power to bring back the dead.

于是死神就从河堤上捡起一块石头给了老二，告诉他这块石头有起死回生的能力。