river

Ducks were swimming around on the river.(鸭子在河面上游来游去。)

He headed downhill toward the river.(他朝山脚下的小河走去。)

His car careered into a river.(他的车猛地冲进了河里。)

Now the river bed is bone dry.(目前河床十分干燥。)

The restaurant has a river frontage.(这家餐馆正对着一条河。)

The river is 300 miles in length.(这条河长300英里。)

The river flooded the valley.(河水泛滥淹没了河谷。)

Here the stream widens into a river.(溪水在这里变宽，成了一条河。)

The river gurgled and burbled.(河水汩汩流淌。)

We enjoyed a day's fishing by the river.(我们在河边享受了一天垂钓之乐。)

用作名词(n.)

出卖(某人) betray sb, usually for one's own advantage
sell sb down the river

Those African leaders have now fallen victims of neocolonialism and sold their fellow Africans down the river.

那些非洲领袖现已沦为新殖民主义的牺牲品而将同胞出卖了。

用作名词(n.)

Here the river takes an abrupt bend to the west.
这条河在这里急转向西流去。The river rises from a spring.
这条河发源于一处泉水。The river roared him to sleep.
河流的奔腾声使他入睡了。The river is rising after the rain.
河水在雨后涨了起来。The river is running over its banks and we shall be flooded.
河水正漫过堤岸,我们要遭水灾了。The river meets the ocean at the city of New York.
那条河在纽约汇入海洋。I'll raise both hands in favour of damming the river.
我举双手赞成拦河筑坝。Only after they had crossed the river did they realize how great their danger had been.
只是过河之后他们才意识到刚才是多么危险。The railway line follows the river for several miles.
铁路线沿着河流延伸几英里。The Romans founded a great city on the banks of this river.
罗马人在这河岸上建立了一座大城市。The park comprehends all the land on the other side of the river.
这公园的范围包括了河对岸所有的土地。The village was defended by a river.
这个村庄有一条河防护着。The city's population prepared to flee heat for the relative cool of the rivers.
该市居民准备逃到天气较为凉爽的江河流域避暑。We boated down the river.
我们乘船顺水而下。Ships raced along on the river.
船只在河上疾驶而过。Our campus reaches down to the river.
我们的校园一直延伸到河边。There are plenty of fish in the river, and good baits on my line, but the fish are getting clever and refuse to rise to the bait today.
河里的鱼很多,我钓线上的鱼饵也蛮好,可这些鱼越来越狡猾,今天就是不上钩。He rowed across the river.
他划船到河对岸去。The general ranged themselves along the river bank.
将军命令他的士兵沿河岸排队。They accumulated a large amount of river mud for fertilizer.
他们积累了大量河泥用作肥料。Rivers of blood flowed during the war.
战争期间血流成河。

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

cross a river过河deepen a river挖深河流drown oneself in a river投河embank a river修筑河堤fall into the river流入河中fish the river在河里钓鱼ford a river涉水过河go down a river沿河顺流而下go up a river沿河逆流而上net a river在河上撒网pour out...into the river往河里倾倒…sail down the river乘〔驾〕船顺流而下sell sb down the river出卖〔背叛〕某人swim in the river在河里游泳tame a river治理河流walk along the river沿着河边走widen a river加宽河道

形容词+～

big river大河busy river交通繁忙的河流commercial river通商河流crisscrossing rivers纵模交错的河流deep river水深的河流frozen river封冻的河inland river内河large river大河long river长河narrow river窄小的河流shallow river水浅的河流small river小河swift-running river湍急的河流turbulent river汹涌澎湃的河流wide river宽阔的河流

名词+～

the Mississippi R-密西西比河the Yangtze R-长江

～+名词

river steamer内河轮船river delta河口三角洲river bank河岸river basin流域river island河中小岛river silt河泥river traffic内河航运the river mouth河口the R- Thames泰晤士河

介词+～

bridge across a river河上的桥along the river沿河beyond the river河对岸down river河的下游,顺流而下in the river在河中bank of the river河岸bottom of the river河底depth of the river河水的深度middle and lower reaches of river江河中下游地区source of a river河的发源地waters of the river河水on the river在河上over the river跨河上,在河上up river河的上游

～+介词

rivers of blood血流成河a river of lava熔岩流

And hast thou crost that unknown river, Life's dreary bound?