by the river

基本解释

They met by the river one May afternoon.
五月的一个下午，他们在河边相遇。
The broken bike was found abandoned by the river side.
人们发现那辆损坏的自行车被扔在河边。
He sat by the river and wept silently, but tears would not return her from the grave. Then, he remembered what she said.
他坐在河边默默地哭泣着，可是泪水无法使她唤醒，此时，他记起她所说过的一句话。

A crowd was gathered in front of a small wooden house by the river.
I'll take this even a step further, even though there is no research about this, I bet you this is correct: there is no difference in our levels of wellbeing if our place of residents is by the river or in the .
我会进一步说明，虽然还没有这方面的研究，我敢和你们打赌，下面的说法是正确的：,我们的幸福水平不会有所不同,不论我们是生活在河边,还是呆在监狱。
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And there's also kind of the area around the Tate Modern by the river
在泰特现代美术馆附近的河边有一个区域，
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We walked by the river afterward, we stood and listened to Big Ben chime midnight.
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