brave the river

If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
beige (of a) very light yellowish brown

She received 151,676 votes - almost three times as many as her nearest competitor - on the job ad's website, which featured the video applications. Nearly 35,000 people from across the world applied for the gig.
gig --AmE informal a job, especially one that does not last for a long time

Compromised Computer-被hacker控制的電腦 Doctors said the bacteria are not normally lethal, but because the premature babies have compromised immune systems, they are at greater risk.

Some of those people brave the river for measurements of volume, flow and temperatures. They also use computer models for mathematical and statistical analyses.

But even with improved forecasting methods, the river's record levels and the volatile temperatures don't allow anyone to be certain, and the weather service continued to hedge its prediction Saturday.
Illegal Immigrants Brave Toxic River

brave the river---跳進河裡

brave----to deal with a difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant situation
　I decided to take the train to work rather than brave the traffic.
brave the elements/weather etc
(=go out in bad weather)
　More than 100 people braved the elements and attended the rally.
hedge----to avoid giving a direct answer to a question
blather--to talk for a long time about unimportant things