18. W: Do you understand why the local people are opposed to the new dam up the river?

问题18. W: 你知道为什么当地人反对在河的上游建新的大坝吗？

Once she allowed her anger to show, it could not be dammed up again.

【dam】她一旦发起脾气来就不可收拾。

Do you understand why the local people are opposed to the new dam up the river?

8. W：你知道当地人为什么反对在河上建新坝吗？

" Some day I'll stay at home, and we'll try to dam up the brook and make a swimming pool."

“总有一天我会呆在家里，我们会设法堵住小溪，建一个游泳池。”

The goal is to keep the dialogue between the two countries flowing, even as recent disagreements threaten to dam up progress.

目标是保持两国之间的对话畅通无阻，即使最近的分歧有可能阻碍进展。

Which was, I think, why we both got in trouble when Dave dammed up the stream running through the jungle and flooded much of lower West Broad Street.

我觉得，正因为如此，当戴维把穿过树林的小溪堵住，结果淹了大半条西大街的时候，我才会跟他一起倒霉受罚。

When you dam up a stream of water, as soon as the dam is full, as much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all.

当你堵住一条水流时，一旦水坝满了，流过坝头的水就好像根本没有水坝一样。

There we had a delightful swim in the broad piece of water above the lock, where the river looked much bigger than its natural size from its being dammed up by the weir.

在那里，我们在船闸上方宽阔的水域中愉快地游泳，那里的河流看起来比它的自然大小要大得多，因为它被堰堵住了。

I disagreed, of course, saying that it could decay a little longer, and that I was taking a holiday even though I thought I should dam up a hole in the dam before the water rose, otherwise the water would replace the daylight in the hole.

当然，我不同意，说它可能会腐烂得更久一点，而且我正在度假，尽管我认为我应该在水上涨之前在大坝上筑一个洞，否则水会取代洞里的日光。