1·The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the dam removed after concluding that the environmental and economic benefits of a free-flowing river outweighed the electricity generated by the dam.
美国联邦能源监管委员会得出结论说，一条自由流动的河流所带来的环境和经济效益超过了大坝产生的电力，因此下令拆除大坝。
2·Environmental groups now have a very good chance of forcing the removal of two major dams, the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado and the Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite.
环保组织现在很可能会强制拆除掉两座重要大坝——科罗拉多的格伦峡谷大坝和约塞米蒂的赫奇赫奇大坝。
3·Tens of millions of the people who live downstream of the dam would be endangered by overflow, or worse yet, the one-in-one-thousand chance of a dam collapse due to war, earthquake or design flaws.
下游数千万的居民就会生活在过分泄洪的危险之中，假如有那么千分之一的几率，大坝由于战争，地震或者设计缺陷而溃坝，他们的处境就会变得更加危险。
4·These factors include importance of the dam, severity of the ground motion, occurrence or lack of observed damage, and availability of quality strong motion records at or near the dam.
这些因素包括：大坝的重要性，地震时地面运动的程度，大坝出现或没有出现重大损坏，以及在当地或附近发生强震时大坝质量的可靠性。
5·The Zipingpu dam is an example where a dam failure could have disastrous consequences.
一座水坝崩溃，将会引起灾难性的后果，紫坪铺大坝就是一个例子。
6·No damage was reported to any concrete dam except a minor slope failure at one reservoir formed by a concrete dam.
出了由一座混凝土大坝拦截的水库库璧有轻微滑坡外，所有混凝土大坝都没有遭到破坏。
7·The dam wall is 870 ft. (265 m) high - taller than the Hoover dam - and when completed, the dam formed a reservoir 47 miles (75 km) long that completely submerged the old town of Tehri.
大坝高870英尺(265米)——比胡弗大坝高——竣工以后，该大坝形成了一个长达47英里(75千米)的蓄水池，完全是老的特赫里城镇完全陷入水中。
8·My first dam question to you is: (1) Are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond beavers or (2) do you require all beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request?
关于水坝，我想问的第一个问题是：(1)你是不是歧视这些居住在春池的海狸们呢(2)还是你想要整个州的全部海狸都樽从你这个建坝的要求？
9·As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity.
关于你的要求，我并不认为这些海狸知道在开始这种建坝活动之前，他们必须填表来获得允许。
10·At the height of the flood, engineers feared a bridge on the Pawtuxet was going to collapse, taking with it a nearby dam, which in turn could have taken out another dam.
在洪峰到来时，工程人员担心塔克西特河上的一座桥可能会倒塌，冲垮附近的一座水坝后再堵塞另一座水坝。