Below, the water swept pass the house like a wild river.

下面，水像一条狂野的河流从房子里掠过。

So in 1929, the US government announced that it would try to tame this wild river by constructing what was then the world's largest dam.

所以在 1929 年，美国政府宣布它将试图通过建造当时世界上最大的水坝来驯服这条狂野的河流。

He was far happier in his short-sleeved work-shirts, out in his rice, or stripped off swimming in any wild river he could find, than in a tang suit in some conference hall.

比起穿着唐装端坐在会议厅里，他更喜欢套着短袖工作服在稻田里穿行，或者脱下衣服扎进河游泳。