Because the wetlands are the headwaters for the Midwest's rivers and streams.

因为湿地是中西部河流和溪水的源头。

10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

10 有河从伊甸流出来滋润那园子、从那里分为四道。

Plus Moscow was at the headwaters of four rivers which made it well-positioned for trade.

此外，莫斯科位于四大河流的源头，这使得它在贸易方面处于有利地位。

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

一条河从伊甸园流出， 浇灌着花园；从那里它被分成四个源头。

We stopped the flow of the river of grass from the Florida headwaters, the Everglades headwaters down to Florida Bay.

朱厄尔：我们阻止了草河从佛罗里达源头、大沼泽地源头流向佛罗里达湾。

Both the park and the volcano take their name from the Yellowstone River, whose headwaters are within the confines of the park.

黄石公园和这座火山都以黄石河命名，黄石河的源头在公园的范围之内。

I was sitting on a stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, in the middle of the night, on the headwaters of the Amazon.

夜半时分，在亚马逊河的源头，我坐一个树墩上，身后是傍水的棕榈叶作屋顶的小村落。

For them, the Headwaters is a kitchen. It's a sanctuary. It's a burial ground of their ancestors. And those who really own it are the generations as yet unborn.

对他们来说，“神圣水源”就是厨房。是圣所，是他们祖先的墓地。真正拥有“神圣水源”的是未出生的后代。

As such, Colorado contains the headwaters for the Rio Grande, Arkansas, Colorado, and South Platte Rivers, while Wyoming contains many of the headwaters for the Missouri, Snake, Columbia, and North Platte Rivers.

因此，科罗拉多州包含格兰德河、阿肯色河、科罗拉多河和南普拉特河的源头，而怀俄明州包含密苏里河、斯内克河、哥伦比亚河和北普拉特河的许多源头。

For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron.

一百多年来，他们一直控制着从烟山河到红河，从加拿大河源头到阿肯色河和西马龙河的分岔口的开阔山脉。

And it further controlled neither of the headwaters for the two great rivers that it would rely so heavily upon for its civilization, the Tigris and Euphrates, both of which begin further to the north within Turkey.

而且，它也没有控制两条大河的源头，而它的文明严重依赖这两条大河，即底格里斯河和幼发拉底河，这两条河都起源于土耳其更北的地方。

Deep in these mountains, the headwaters of the Hudson River were discovered in 1872. But by then, it was another waterway to the west that was about to power the cities and towns of New York state.

在这些山脉的深处，哈德逊河的源头于 1872 年被发现。但到那时，它是另一条通往西部的水道，将为纽约州的城镇提供动力。

Pioneers, no matter from what section they came, when once they were on the headwaters of the Ohio and in possession of a flatboat, could find a quick and easy passage into all parts of the West and Southwest.

拓荒者，无论他们来自哪个区域，一旦他们到达俄亥俄河的源头并拥有一艘平底船， 就可以快速轻松地进入西部和西南部的所有地区。

Early in Jefferson's administration, Congress dedicated a part of the proceeds from the sale of lands to building highways from the headwaters of the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic to the Ohio River and beyond into the Northwest territory.

在杰斐逊执政初期，国会将出售土地所得的一部分用于修建高速公路， 这些高速公路从通航水域的源头流入大西洋， 流入俄亥俄河， 再延伸至西北地区。