the continental divide

常见例句

This morning I drove west on Highway 82 from Twin Lakes, which leads to the Continental Divide at Independence Pass.
那天早晨，我从孪生湖沿着82号公路上向西行驶到美国大陆洛矶山脉分水岭。
The creek in the middle photo is Lake Creek, which begins near the Continental Divide and flows downward into Twin Lakes before trickling into the Arkansas River.
中间这张照片中的小溪是湖河，它靠近美国大陆洛矶山脉的分水岭，它在满满地进入阿肯色河之前向下游流进了孪生湖。
The continental divide refers to an imaginaryline in the North American Rockies that divides the waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean from those flowing into the Pacific.
大陆分水岭是指北美洛矶山脉上的一道想象线，该线把大西洋流域和太平洋流域区分开来。

So this is the big continental divide for the course.
这里就是这个课程的大分水岭。
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