The continental dividerefers to an imaginary line in the North American Rockies that dividesthe waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean from those flowing into thePacific.
大陆分水岭是指北美洛矶山脉上的一道想象线，该线把大西洋流域和太平洋流域区分开来。
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There are already some undersea transmission lines running off the Atlantic Coast, but this is the first line that will collect power from generators along the way.
虽然在大西洋沿岸已有数条海底电力传输线运行，不过这条传输线却是首次尝试收集沿线发电机产生的电能。
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By 1700 the Virginia frontier had been pushed as far west as the fall line-the point upstream at which the rivers emptying into the Atlantic became unnavigable.