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

你知道为什么当地人反对在河上修建新水坝吗？

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She tried to dam up her feelings.

她尽力控制自己的感情。

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It's hard to dam up one's feelings.

一个人要抑制自己的感情是不容易的。

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The surge came from a sudden release by a hydropower dam further up the river in the North's territory.

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" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.

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If it is too high, the water spills over even when the dam is up.

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In 1987 it threatened to cut the flow off, and in 1990 it did so, for a month, to allow the lake behind its giant Ataturk Dam to fill up.

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