Niagara

1 Beyond placid Queenston, where an American attack was turned back in the War of 1812, the Niagara River turns relatively tame, and wineries, peach orchards, manorlike houses and an inviting bicycle path line the road.

2 As in one report an American newspaper, officers from Fort Niagara were dining at Fort George in 1812 when they heard that the United States had declared war.

3 Since Green-Wood was in some years a tourist attraction second only to Niagara Falls in popularity, there are vintage Baedeker-style guidebooks, prints and tchotchkes, like wall clocks decorated with cemetery images.

4 Nonetheless, they seem pretty friendly toward each other, and they're spending a Valentine's Day weekend in the honeymoon suite of a Niagara Falls hotel.

5 They also flocked to the nearby Niagara Falls to watch daredevils try to survive the rapids.

6 “It helps pay the bills,” says Robert Emerson, a military historian who serves as executive director of the Old Fort Niagara Association.

7 We see images of buffalo herds, Niagara Falls’ rushing torrents, loggers perched inside a giant notch in a doomed California redwood.

8 As The Amazing Randi, the performer escaped from a locked coffin submerged in water and from a straitjacket as he dangled over Niagara Falls.

9 The Niagara Gazette, a local newspaper in upstate New York, reported that Weinstein had tested positive for the highly contagious virus earlier Sunday, citing anonymous officials.

10 You're sure to see a few rainbows while on the Voyage to the Falls, a boat tour operated by Hornblower, that takes you into the mist and up close to the Niagara Falls.

11 I hope to see Niagara Falls some day.

我希望有一天能去看看尼亚加拉河瀑布。

12 Niagara Falls is a huge waterfall that lies on the niagara River.

尼亚加拉大瀑布是尼亚加拉河上的一条大瀑布.

13 As soon as Canada legalised same-sex marriage in 2005, my mothers drove across the border to legally marry in Niagara Falls, Canada.

14 The bath at Kyle’s house was so loud it sounded like Niagara Falls.

15 Mr. Klein, who was easing out of his music career after playing big festivals like the Warped Tour with Libertine, was D.J.ing at Niagara.

16 "I didn't know which way to turn. It was the hardest moment of my life. I've been dangled over Niagara Falls, but nothing compares to this — nothing."

17 “My sister and I went to a party, and then we went to Niagara,” a downtown club.

18 You may be aware of Niagara Falls, with its twin sheets of water on the border between Canada and New York, but there’s also Victoria Falls, one of the world’s largest.

19 Outside the Discovery Center, a trail heads toward the Niagara Gorge, where hikers get within a few feet of the largest standing, river-rapids waves in North America.

20 In a 1907 painting we see a Niagara of livid yellow light gushing from some crevice in the cosmos.

1 急流

torrential race shoot rapid swift torrent chute beck riffle jet stream

2 奔流

shoot wash flush torrent cataract onrush wildwater onflow

3 涌至

surge blizzard avalanche deluge afflux mob inundate throng besiege beat a path

4 大洪水

diluvial deluge

5 瀑布

fall force cascade chute linn waterfall