Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes.

酗酒的人替自己辩护的劲头绝对不输给人拦海造田的决心。

So we're going to have to start armoring the Mall with larger and larger dikes.

因而我们得开始用越来越大的堤坝加固国家广场。

What is the dike upon which it is built?

建造它的堤坝是什么？

The storm destroyed dikes along several hundred kilometers of coastline.

风了几百公里海岸线上的堤坝。

And it's simply not realistic to build dikes along the entire coast.

而且沿着整个海岸修建堤坝是不现实的。

When a storm threatens, densely populated older districts are protected by traditional dikes.

当一场雨逼近，人口密集的区域会被传统的堤坝保护。

Hamburg is building a lot of new dikes.

汉堡正在修建许多新的堤坝。

They can't build dikes or other flood-protection structures, like we have in Germany and the Netherlands.

他们无法建造堤坝或其他防洪设施，就像在德国所建造的那样。

Under the " Room for the River" plan, farms and dikes were relocated away from the shore.

在 “河流空间” 方案下，农场堤坝被迁移到了远离海岸的地方。

The country is protected by a system of polders, dikes, and dams — but for how long?

这个国家受到一套由堤防、堤坝组成的体系的保护，但能维持多久呢？

He dreamed vividly about how he walked out of his prison cell, across town, beyond the dikes, towards the shore.

他生动地梦见自己如何走出牢房，穿过城镇，越过堤坝，走向岸边。

Behind him, he saw footprints in the sand of a beautiful spotless beach that led to the dikes and beyond.

在他身后，他看到一个美丽的一尘不染的海滩上的脚印，通向堤坝更远的地方。

The Spaniards never rebuilt the Aztec dams and dikes and replaced them with more familiar streets and public squares instead.

西班牙人从未重建阿兹特克水坝堤坝，而是用更熟悉的街道公共广场取而代之。

And flood protection requires more than massive dikes.

防洪需要的不仅仅是巨大的堤坝。

During the storm, 200 kilometers of dikes burst — and water levels quickly rose to three-meters.

在这场风中，200公里的堤坝决堤，水位迅速上升到3米。

It's the age-old story of the water boards which preserves the dikes and protects us against the floods.

这是关于水板的古老故事，它保护了堤坝并保护我们免受洪水的侵害。

Drifting ice has broken through a dike on an offshoot of the Rhine River.

流冰冲破了莱茵河支流的堤坝。

That night he walked along the dike, thinking about it.

那天晚上，他沿着堤防散步，想着这事。

And what we did, we built some dikes around it, and we pumped water out — so now we have a dry country.

我们所做的就是在它周围建了一些堤坝，把水抽出来——所以现在我们的国家很干旱。

This form of learning is characterized by Thorn dike's Law of Effect.

这种学习形式的特点是索恩代克效应定律。