Mississippi River

基本解释

The Mississippi River may be mightier than anyone ever imagined.
密西西比河可能比任何人想象的还要强大。
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.
居住在落基山脉西面和东面的人们则受到地震的威胁，比如在阿拉斯加，新英格兰和密西西比河沿岸的新马德里断层附近。
It would be like channeling water from the Mississippi River to meet the drinking needs of Boston, New York and Washington.
这就好比用管道把密西西比河的水送到波士顿，纽约，和华盛顿，满足那里的饮用水的需要。

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.
有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。
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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.
这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。
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Schafer, 50, owns Schafer Fisheries in Thomson, Illinois, a Mississippi River town 150 miles west of Chicago.
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