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。
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。
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。
There are claims that the Hoover Dam itself creates minor earthquakes in the area.
有人说胡佛大坝本身会在那个区域制造小型地震。
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。
During the Great Depression, America built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.
在大萧条时期,美国建设了胡佛大坝和金门大桥。
Visit the Hoover Dam and take a look at the world largest man-made lake - lake Mead from a distance.
大峡谷前往参观胡佛水坝,并眺望世界最大的密德人工湖。
If one looks at the Hoover dam being built, you can see all the, all the workmen out with their fedoras.
如果有人见过大坝的修建过程,就会发现所有的工人都只戴着软呢帽。
“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。
Las Vegas (population 560,000) is linked to Phoenix (1.6m) by a rural road that trundles over the Hoover Dam.
拉斯维加斯(人口5.6万)同凤凰城(人口1600万)由一条乡村公路相连,途中还要越过胡夫水坝。
If you are an American looking for the "that" that used to be us, the Hoover Dam is not a bad place to start.
如果你是个想要寻找我们辉煌过去的美国人,那胡佛大坝是个不错的切入点。
These would be needed, for example, if hackers took control of nuclear facilities, or were about to open the Hoover dam.
例如当骇客控制了核设施,或者准备开闸胡佛大坝,这些权利还是需要的。
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。
The questions were begging to come pouring out of my mouth like water spilling out of a tiny hole chiseled in the Hoover dam.
我忍不住发问一连串的疑问,就像水不断从胡弗堤坝的一个小孔里溢流出来。
Straddling the Arizona and Nevada borders on the Colorado River, the Hoover dam was the largest project ever attempted in the US.
胡佛水坝横跨科罗拉多河,与亚里桑那州和内华达州接壤。它一度是美国有史以来最大的工程。
The trail offers access to the lower Colorado River from several launch sites, the most impressive of which is surely the Hoover Dam.
这条水路可以从若干始发地点出发,通往科罗拉多河下游,最引人注目的无疑是胡佛水坝。
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 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。
The Hoover Dam changed the human geography of America, luring tens of millions into an arid West that would otherwise have remained a wilderness.
胡佛水坝改变了美国的人文地理状况。数千万人被引入贫瘠的西部地区,那里不再是一片荒芜。
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岩壁。
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。
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。
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。
Nevertheless, discounting the quakes the USGS deleted, for whatever reason, there were still five quakes of magnitude 2 or greater at the Hoover Dam site in the past 6 months.
然而,除去USGS删除掉的数据不算,无论什么理由,在过去的六个月中仍然还有五次2级或两级以上的地震在胡佛水坝处。
'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。
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。
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。
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。
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