I slipped on one and started to slide down the embankment.

我踩到一块积雪，脚下一滑，竟然沿着路基滑下去。

It rolls down the embankment and lands up against their railings.

它会滚下路堤，停靠在他们家的围栏旁。

Work is underway to strengthen river embankments and repair damaged roads.

正在进行加固河堤和修复受损道路的工作。

But the government and powerful landowners are known to breach these embankments on purpose.

但众所周知，政府和强大的土所有者故意破坏这些堤防。

They crawled over an embankment onto the wet grass.

他们爬上河堤，躺在湿漉漉的草上。

After breakfast near ten o'clock, we went down onto the embankment.

吃早饭，十点左右，我们下船来，到岸上去。

The embankments along the river were built to protect regions from riverine flooding.

沿河的堤防保护区免受河流洪水的侵袭。

The Nautilus was stationary. It was floating next to an embankment shaped like a wharf.

诺第留斯号静止不动。它靠近作码头的岸边浮着。

The British built embankments to keep floodwater from flowing past the river's banks.

英国人修建堤防，防止洪水流过河岸。

It was blocked by the system of canals, embankments and wastewater drains built parallel to the river.

它被与河流平行的运河、堤防和污水排水渠系统所阻塞。

But even  that is not enough to protect the embankment.

但即便如此也不足以保护路堤。

We  often build an embankment of multiple zones.

我们经常建造多个区域的路堤。

His head popped up over the embankment.

他的头从堤岸上探出来。

A tidy embankment is so pretty they call it " little Venice."

整洁的堤岸美不胜收，人们称它“小威尼斯”。

The car shot over an embankment and hurled me against a tree.

汽车冲过路堤， 把我撞到一棵树上。

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment.

她停下来，把胳膊肘靠在路堤的栏杆上。

Arrived at the embankment I saw a carriage and a tiny hand on the door.

到堤岸，我看到一辆马车和一只小手放在门上。

It was an earthfill embankment dam  with two spillways and a powerhouse.

这一座土堤坝，有两个溢洪道和一个发电厂。

" Not much. I pushed him off a sixteen-foot embankment before he was well started" .

“不多。在他起步之前， 我把他推下 16 英尺高的路堤” 。

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会导致决口和破坏。