Professor McCaffrey has been acting as legal counsel to states in several negotiations concerning international watercourses.

麦卡弗里教授在几次关于国际水资源问题的谈判中担任了法律顾问。

The first major flood in Asia's longest watercourse was reported in late June in its lower reaches.

据报道，这条亚洲最长水道的第一次大洪水发生在6月下旬的下游地区。

Some kingfishers lurked along the watercourses, but they didn't let us approach.

有些翠乌在水流边，但它们不让人接近，见人就走。

In the Yangtze basin, for example, the upper reaches of Asia's longest watercourse will suffer a major flood, he said.

他说，以长江流域为例，这条亚洲最长水道的上游将遭遇一场大洪水。

They wore waterproof clothes and dove into the watercourse.

他们穿着不透水的衣服，跳进渠道。

The excess chemicals are known to run off onto increasingly fragile land and seep into watercourses, with damaging environmental and health effects.

众所周，过量的化学物质会渗入日益脆弱的土地，渗入水道，破坏环境，影响健康。

It was a weary vigil, but it had the sort of excitement a sportsman feels when he lies before the watercourse and waits for the big game.

守夜很艰辛，但是有种冒险者躺在河道前，等着大猎物时的兴奋心情。

For ages this great natural treasure had been seeking to advertise its presence by occasionally seeping through the rocks and appearing on the surface of watercourses.

，这个伟大的自然宝藏一直试图通过偶尔渗入岩石并出现在水道表面宣传它的存在。

There are UN-sponsored international laws to deal with issues like climate change, ozone layer depletion, protection of biological diversity, protection of international watercourses, protection of endangered species, regulation on persistent organic pollutants.

联合国发起的国际法处理气候变化、臭氧层损耗、保护生物样性、保护国际水道、保护濒危物种、管制持久性有机污染物等问题。

" Perhaps you understand the compass, and lay down the watercourses and mountains of the wilderness on paper, in order that they who follow may find places by their given names" ?

“或许你懂得指南针，把旷野的水道和山脉写在纸上，以便追随者可以通过名字找到地方”？

In Venango County, Pennsylvania, petroleum floated in such quantities on the surface of a branch of the Allegheny River that this small watercourse had for generations been known as Oil Creek.

在宾夕法尼亚州的韦南戈县，阿勒格尼河 (Allegheny River) 一条支流的水面上漂浮着大量石油，这条小水道几代人都被称为油溪 (Oil Creek)。

One mountaintop after another lifted itself above the horizon in craggy silhouette; now the flight was along a curving valley, the base of which was strewn with rocks and the debris of dried-up watercourses.

一座座山顶以崎岖的轮廓从地平线上升起； 现在机正沿着一个弯曲的山谷行， 山谷底部散布着岩石和干涸河道的残骸。

It grows heartily everywhere-on moraines, rocky ledges, along watercourses, and in the deep, moist alluvium of meadows, with a multitude of seedlings and saplings crowding up around the aged, seemingly abundantly able to maintain the forest in prime vigor.

它无处不在——在冰碛、岩石壁架、河道沿岸，以及草地深处湿润的冲积层中，大量的幼苗和树苗簇拥在老龄化的周围，似乎足以使森林保持生机勃勃。