The Mississippi is overtopping a few small levees north of St. Louis and Missouri.

密西西比河的水位已经超过了密苏里州圣路易斯北部的一些小型河堤。

The lagoons themselves are kept filled slightly above sea level by waves overtopping the reef.

礁湖本身被淹没在略高于海平的海浪中。

In the Northwest territory, the old home of Jacksonian Democracy, they overtopped agriculture.

在西北地区，杰克逊民主的故乡，他们超过了农业。

Today, there's a skim of snow on the ground overtop of this feather moss that just covers the forest floor.

今天，一层飞雪覆盖在羽毛苔藓上，下覆盖着森林地。

And yet, having water overtop an unprotected embankment  will almost certainly cause a breach and failure.

然而，水漫过未受保护的路堤几乎肯定导致决口和破坏。

What she wanted to learn now was whether Isabel had drawn herself up; it would give her immense pleasure to see Osmond overtopped.

现在想知道的是，伊莎贝尔是不是已经打起精神来了；看到奥斯蒙德被超，非常高兴。

An overpass is the road or street that goes overtop of a highway, and below me the cars are going under through the underpass.

立交桥是在高速公路上方的道路或街道，在我下，汽车正在通过地下通道。

I should be sprinkling overtop 2.5 tablespoons of confectioners sugar, but I'm going all out here and using most of a cup of regular sugar.

我应该在上撒上 2.5 汤匙糖果糖，但我在这里全力以赴， 用了大部分普通糖。

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.

我和歇洛克·福尔摩斯看了这张简短的通告及站在后的那个人充满懊恼的愁容，这件事的滑稽可笑完全压倒了一切其他考虑，我们两个人情不自禁，哈哈大笑起来。

If the reservoir gets too high and the service spillway can't release water  fast enough, this structure overflows, preventing the reservoir from reaching  and overtopping the crest of the dam.

如果水库太高并且服务溢洪道无法足够快地释放水，该结构就溢出， 从而阻止水库到达并超过大坝的顶部。

Operators worked to find a sweet  spot in managing these risks, limiting releases from the service spillway as much as possible  while still trying to keep the reservoir from overtopping the emergency spillway.

运营商努力寻找管理这些风险的最佳点，尽可能限制服务溢洪道的排放， 同时仍努力防止水库漫过紧急溢洪道。

But Cicero had a great deal of political ambition; at a very young age he chose as his basic belief the same one Achilles was said to have had: to always be the best and overtop the rest.

但西塞罗有着巨大的政治野心。在很小的时候，他就选择了阿喀琉斯的基本信念：永远是最好的，超其他人。

As a result,   if a severe storm were to come, the dam wouldn't be able to release enough water to prevent the  reservoir level from climbing above the top of the structure, overtopping it and likely causing  it to fail.

因此， 如果一场严重的暴风雨来临，大坝将无法释放足够的水来防止水库水位上升到建筑物顶部之上，超过它并可能导致其溃坝。