洪水

Major rivers in the Northeast are cresting after days of rain left many areas flooded.

在持续数日的将雨后，东北部的主要河流暴涨，致使许多地方洪水泛滥。

Mohammed Ali , Lord Cromer and Gamal Abdel Nasser all launched major projects to control and harness the river's seasonal floods; now Mubarak is following in their footsteps not by saving the delta, but by creating a bewildering array of canals and pumping stations that draw water out from the Nile into sandy valleys to the east and west, where the desert is slowly being turned green.

穆罕默德。阿里、克罗默勋爵、以及贾迈勒。阿卜杜-纳赛尔都曾启动大型项目来控制和治理这条河流的季节性洪水。如今，穆巴拉克也跟随着这些前人的脚步。但是，他却不是为了拯救这条河流，而是建起一套复杂的运河网络和抽水站，将尼罗河水抽出，输送到东部和西部的沙漠峡谷。因此，那里的沙漠正逐渐染上了绿意。

The Cumberland River floods outside of its banks Tuesday on May 4, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee.

坎伯兰河洪水对2010年5月4日以外的银行周二在田纳西州纳什维尔。

SALARINO Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curtsy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.

salarino 你的心是丢地球上的海洋；因此，如果你与argosies魁梧出海像signiors丰富伯格对洪水或者，它作为人，选美的大海，做的overpeer零用贩子喏说，他们做他们的崇敬，它们飞经他们与自己编织的翅膀。

However, Cuvier argues that the appearance and disappearance of new species from stratum to stratum corresponded in time to a major environmental change, namely a catastrophe such as a flood or an earthquake, that had destroyed many of the species living there at that time.

但是cuvier辩称，新种的出现和消失在层层相当于一个重大环境变化时，即灾难发生地震或洪水等，已经摧毁许多当时生活在那里的物种。

At length comes _Aquarius_, or the Water-bearer, to show the Season of Snows, Rains and Floods; and lastly _Pisces_, or the two Shads, to denote the approaching Return of those Fish up the Rivers: Make your Wears, hawl your Seins; Catch 'em and pickle 'em, my Friends; they are excellent Relishers of old Cyder.

宝瓶座指的是风雪，多雨和洪水的季节。最后是双鱼座，暗示往上迁徙的鱼儿又快回来了。缝补您的衣服，补好你的渔网。捕到鱼，腌好它们，我的朋友，用它们下陈年苹果酒，那可是有滋有味啊。

A great dam has been built up so as to eliminate the root of flood, which used to endanger the people along the river.

一座大坝已经建立起来，从而彻底根除了过去威胁着沿岸人民安全的洪水。

In case of flood, the dam can protect us.

在发洪水的时候，大堤可以保护我们。

His house damaged in the flood, he had no room to live in.

他的家在洪水中毁了，他没有地方住。

The date palm is without a doubt the plant which characterizes Egyptian agriculture more than anything else.

这个被称作"Nilometer"的设备，是古代法老用来预测一定时期内洪水的可能高度。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。