He saw a large straight tree growing by the river.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

I'll take this even a step further, even though there is no research about this, I bet you this is correct: there is no difference in our levels of wellbeing if our place of residents is by the river or in the .

我会进一步说明，虽然还没有这方面的研究，我敢和你们打赌，下面的说法是正确的：,我们的幸福水平不会有所不同,不论我们是生活在河边,还是呆在监狱。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And there's also kind of the area around the Tate Modern by the river

在泰特现代美术馆附近的河边有一个区域，

去泰特现代美术馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This force,led by General Zachary Taylor, had camped near the town of Corpus Christi at the mouth of the Nueces River.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

So the pharaoh enlists all of the people to annihilate the Israelites by drowning all newborn males in the Nile River.

法老便召集了所有人民歼灭以色列人,将男婴溺死在尼罗河中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Arizona is the Grand Canyon State because of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

This made me think of Mississippi Gene too and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew, I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known and would ever know was One.

这又使我想起密西西比的吉恩,以及河流从美国中部倾斜而下的景象，我知道是很疯狂地，很疯狂地同样也有，我发现所有我知道或未知的事都是一体。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

By the middle eighteen-hundreds, almost all the eastern Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

They also know that by the middle fifteen hundreds people left their villages and cave homes and moved south and east toward the Rio Grande River.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

He believed that that the river had to be made passable by boats.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

He was influenced by later members of the Hudson River School.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

It shouldn't be best practices to have spills in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, in the Yellowstone River in Montana and potentially in the future in the Ogallala aquifer which would be crossed by this new proposed Keystone XL pipeline."

VOA: special.2011.07.08

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

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

She notes the Mauritanian border town of Rosso, on the banks of the Senegal River, also has been lashed by heavy rains and devastated by floods.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

One of them - the Erie Canal - opened the West to commerce by connecting New York's Hudson River with the Great Lakes in the heartland.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"Some of you may recall that in June there was an attack on the Sobat river, which effectively prevented food assistance from being delivered by river,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Six South Koreans were killed when the North opened the gates to a dam near the border, flooding the banks of a river shared by both sides.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met NATO leaders on the German side of the Rhine River and together they walked across a bridge where they were met by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who then welcomed them into France.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04