堤防

Dikes protected the lowland from incursions of the sea.

堤防保护低地免于海水流入。

A weak dyke bursts easily before a flood.

大水首先冲毁不坚固的堤防。

The floods pale beside the ones we had last year when the whole river overflowed its banks.

这些洪水与我们去年的那几次洪水简直不能比，当时整个河流淹没了两岸的堤防。

One sees how important it was that the Greek barriers be stormed.

人们知道冲破希腊人的堤防是如何重要的。

Splays are commonly formed by currents from crevasses in levees.

嗽叭形堆积通常由堤防决口的洪流所形成。