英语释义

• a large dam on the Colorado River in Nevada

片语

Hoover Dam Arizona亚利桑那州胡佛大坝

Hoover Dam bridge opens胡佛水坝大桥开通

The Hoover Dam胡佛水坝

Hoover Dam Checkpoint胡佛大坝检查站

Hoover Dam Bypass胡佛水坝旁路

Hoover Dam Emergency Stairs胡佛大坝紧急逃生梯

Hoover Dam Museum记录历史的胡佛水坝博物馆

Hoover Dam is dedicated历史上的今天胡佛大坝投入使用

Inside Hoover Dam四小关

英汉例句

• if you「ve seen the hoover dam you realize, it」s just astronomical. just like the pyramids, so many people, so many anonymous people worked to build that dam.

  如果见过胡佛水坝你就会了解，它庞大得如同金字塔，而且有这么多的无名者参与了大坝的建设。

• standing on the hoover dam and looking upstream at lake mead, america’s largest reservoir, the visitor notices a wide, white band ringing the cliffs.

  游客们站在胡佛水坝上朝上游的米德湖（美国最大的人造水库）望去会发现一条白色的宽条纹围绕着四周的巖壁。

• the dam wall is 870 ft. (265 m) high — taller than the hoover dam — and when completed, the dam formed a reservoir 47 miles (75 km) long that completely submerged the old town of tehri.

  大坝高870英尺（265米）——比胡弗大坝高——竣工以后，该大坝形成了一个长达47英里（75千米）的蓄水池，完全是老的特赫里城镇完全陷入水中。

• scientists discovered 10 years after the hoover dam was built in 1935 that its reservoir was increasing seismic activity.

  科学家发现建于1935年的胡佛水坝建成10年间，地震活动逐渐增加。

• in the southwest, continuing drought shrank lake mead, the enormous impoundment behind hoover dam that waters much of the region, to a fraction of its former self.

  在东南部，持续的干旱让 mead湖这一胡佛大坝的水源干涸，为该地区大部分区域供水的胡佛大坝的蓄水量只有过去的零头。

• the company has also overseen the construction of the hoover dam in the us, the channel tunnel linking britain and france and the athens metro.

  该公司还监管了美国胡佛大坝的建设，联系英法的英吉利海峡隧道以及雅典的地铁。

• las vegas had similar problems. it was part of a great desert until lake mead was created by the hoover dam built on the colorado river.

  拉斯维加斯也有过同样的烦恼，在科罗拉多河建起胡佛大坝从而形成mead湖之前，拉斯维加斯一直是一片荒漠。

• 「the technology is different. if you built the hoover dam today, you would do it with far fewer people,」 he says.

  技术不同了，如果现在修建哈佛大坝的话，只需要很少的人就可以。

• ‘i was driving on a road trip through nevada across to arizona when i took in the hoover dam as a tourist,’ said jamey, who has been photographing the bridge since march 2009.

  「我驱车由内华达州到亚利桑那州，以观光旅游者的心态来到了胡佛大坝。」杰米说。他从2009年5月开始对大桥拍摄照片。

• it is one of the planet「s newest awe-inspiring superstructures - the hoover dam bridge.

  这是这颗星球上令人敬畏惊叹的最新超级建筑之一——胡佛大坝桥。

• a 1, 900-foot span across the colorado river shadows the hoover dam

  跨度1900英尺，横穿科罗拉多河胡佛大坝的水库

• hoover dam on the colorado river is a monument to the american can-do spirit.

  位于科罗拉多河上的胡佛水坝无疑是展现美国人进取精神的一座丰碑。

• it will also allow the roadway that runs on top of the hoover dam to close.

  有了胡佛大桥，胡佛大坝顶端的公路就可以关闭了。

• the sequence of events will be the new madrid adjustment followed immediately by the european tsunami, then at some point the hoover dam and west coast adjustment.

  事件的序列是：新马德里调整之后紧接着是欧洲海啸，之后在某一个时刻胡佛水坝和美国西海岸调整。

• hoover dam provided the two key ingredients - water and power - that freed the southwest and southern california to go on a 75-year growth spurt.

  胡佛水坝提供了两种关键的成分，水和电，使加州的西南部和南部实现了75年的井喷式增长。

• when complete, the dam will generate 18,000 megawatts of power—eight times that of the u.s.」s hoover dam on the colorado river.

  大坝建成之后，预计其发电量将达到18000兆瓦，相当于美国科罗拉多河上胡佛大坝发电量的8倍。

• during the 20th century, these two firms handled the legal work that underpinned the construction of such tangible marvels as the hoover dam and the golden gate bridge.

  而在20世纪，这两家律所处理的法律工作为类似胡佛水坝[1]及金门大桥这些建筑奇迹的建设奠定了基础。

• for example, the hoover dam area experienced hundreds of quakes as lake mead filled.

  比如说，胡佛水坝所在地区就曾经由于米德湖的满溢而经历了数百次的地震。