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__________________________________________________________. But not one that’s based on the nation’s inland rivers.
但是没有一个词能用来形容美国的内河流域状况。
The companies that control the 21,000 barges that towboats and tugboats push and pull along big rivers such as the Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee in America’s midsection have none of those attributes.
那些控制着21,000条驳船的公司,它们的拖船和拖轮沿着那些像密西西比河、俄亥俄河与田纳西河那样的美国中部的大河做着拖拉船的工作,可并没有这样的属性。