But she was amazed to see an African Grey Congo parrot perched on a water butt as she hung out washing in the garden.

然而，当她在后花园进行洗涮时，竟然看到一只灰色的非洲刚果鹦鹉栖息在水桶上。

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Off Japan's northeastern coast, an oil tanker lay eerily stranded in shallow water. Inland, in Sendai, a black mini-van perched perilously on a metal post.

日本东北部海岸不远处，一艘油轮怪异地搁浅在浅水区。在内陆的仙台，则有辆小面包车停在危险地金属桩上。

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This city of 3 million, perched on hills between the desert and the fertile valley below, draws its drinking and irrigation water from the Jordan River.

阿曼，这个三百万人口的城市，坐落在沙漠和靠下方物产丰富的山谷之间的山上，饮水和灌溉水斗来自于约旦河。

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Or water-based safaris in small guide boats that dip in close to the riverbank to observe dinosaur-like monitor lizards sunning themselves on logs, kingfisher eagles perched in trees, and elephants playfully spraying water on their young.

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The citizens of El Alto, a poor, sprawling city perched above La Paz, the capital, are engaged in a like-minded campaign to throw out a French water company, which they blame for high prices and for failing to supply water to hundreds of thousands of people.

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