Mississippi River

基本解釋

The Mississippi River may be mightier than anyone ever imagined.
密西西比河可能比任何人想象的還要強(qiáng)大。
People who live west or just east of the Rockies are at earthquake risk, as are those in Alaska, New England and near the New Madrid fault area along the Mississippi River.
居住在落基山脈西面和東面的人們則受到地震的威脅，比如在阿拉斯加，新英格蘭和密西西比河沿岸的新馬德里斷層附近。
It would be like channeling water from the Mississippi River to meet the drinking needs of Boston, New York and Washington.
這就好比用管道把密西西比河的水送到波士頓，紐約，和華盛頓，滿足那里的飲用水的需要。

Oil reached the coastline late Thursday near the mouth of the Mississippi River in the southern state of Louisiana.
So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.
有個故事是關(guān)于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他讓理查坐在他的馬車后,卻連人帶車掉到密西西比河里,這被作為了一個理查的真實笑話。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.
這又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流從美國中部傾斜而下的景象，我知道是很瘋狂地，很瘋狂地同樣也有，我發(fā)現(xiàn)所有我知道或未知的事都是一體。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選

Schafer, 50, owns Schafer Fisheries in Thomson, Illinois, a Mississippi River town 150 miles west of Chicago.
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