By noon he was far beyond the little bayou, farther into the new and alien country than he had ever been. 中午时他早已过了小河,深入了他从来未到过的新鲜而生疏的地方。
The fiction portrayed the decline of the two big Jia noble family named Long and Lin mansions, given priority to love tragedy of Jia Bayou and Lin Daiyu, vividily contained a broad portrait of realistic life during china's feu 小说以贾宝玉、黛玉的恋爱悲剧为主线,描写了贾家荣、两府这个贵族大家庭的衰亡败落,生动地展现了中国封建社会走向没落时期的现实生活的广阔画面。
bayou
[ noun ] a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana) <noun.object>
Bayou \Bay"ou\, n.; pl. {Bayous}. [North Am. Indian bayuk, in F. spelling bayouc, bayouque.] An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.]
A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. --G. W. Cable.
Cajun more accurately, they say, can be divided into two major regional dialects, known as bayou Cajun and prairie Cajun, plus a jambalaya of subregional dialects.
Cajuns are descendants of French settlers expelled from Canada who settled in the steamy bayou country of south Louisiana in the 1750s.
The city is near a bayou that will be flooded by the rampaging Trinity River in southeastern Texas.
In New Orleans, firefighters pumped water from a bayou to fight an eight-alarm fire at an abandoned cannery after leaks in pipes reduced water pressure throughout the city.
Wiley said the best thing for the contractor to have done with unharmed fish stranded in the pool have been to dump them into the bayou on the other side of the earthen dam.