the continental divide

常見例句

This morning I drove west on Highway 82 from Twin Lakes, which leads to the Continental Divide at Independence Pass.
那天早晨，我從孿生湖沿著82號公路上曏西行駛到美國大陸洛磯山脈分水嶺。
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.
中間這張照片中的小谿是湖河，它靠近美國大陸洛磯山脈的分水嶺，它在滿滿地進(jìn)入阿肯色河之前曏下遊流進(jìn)了孿生湖。
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.
大陸分水嶺是指北美洛磯山脈上的一道想象線，該線把大西洋流域和太平洋流域區(qū)分開來。

So this is the big continental divide for the course.
這裡就是這個課程的大分水嶺。
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