the Potomac River
/ðə pəˌtəʊmæk ˈrɪvə(r)/
/ðə pəˌtəʊmək ˈrɪvər/
- a river in the eastern US. It begins in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and flows 285 miles/459 kilometres past Harpers Ferry, Mount Vernon and Washington, DC, into Chesapeake Bay on the Atlantic coast.
波托马克河：美国东部的河流。它始于西弗吉尼亚州的阿巴拉契亚山脉，经过哈珀斯渡轮，弗农山和华盛顿特区，经过285英里/ 459公里，流入大西洋海岸的切萨皮克湾。