洪水

The National Guard is helping patrol flooded areas in New England.

在新英格兰洪水肆虐的地区，国民警卫队也加入了巡逻的行列。

The whole Noachian spectacle probably lasted only a few days.

整个如同诺亚洪水般壮观的场面仅仅持续了数日。

It's well known that the flood and Noah's Ark story.

这就人尽皆知的洪水与诺亚方舟的故事。

At Blickling Hall, Norfolk, it's not just the horseman that is headless -- but the horses, too, along with poor Ann Boleyn one of King Henry VIII'(亨利八世 wives who sits with her head on her lap(坐时的大腿前部. On the Norfolk Broads there's a phantom skater and a ghost . And at Dunwich, now lost beneath the waves, you can listen for the church bells of a huge and prosperous town.

无头骑士、无头马和可怜的安·博林皇后怀抱着头颅的亡魂在诺福克郡的布利克林庄园徘徊；溜冰幽灵和鬼船时常出没在诺福克郡的宽阔河段上；而在被洪水淹没的萨福克郡的邓里奇，滚滚波涛中隐隐传来水下教堂凄婉的钟声，述说着庞大城镇曾经的昔日繁华。

Floods in the north of the country killed at least 34 people.

洪水在该国北部造成至少34人死亡。

Only when the waters had subsided did Fuxi and Nuwa realise that they alone had survived the desolation.

只有当洪水退却的时候，伏羲和女娲才意识到只有他们才在荒凉中生存了下来。

There is no evidence of irrigation, but such evidence could have been obliterated by repeated, catastrophic floods.

没有灌溉的迹象，但一些明显的迹象可能已经被再三地冲刷去，例如是特大洪水。

One that is held over, especially an officeholder who is retained after an expired term of office.

还有一直挖通到下面的地层的鼠洞，后被继发的洪水所填满。

It was gold. The flood which had beggared him made him rich. So it is ofttimes in life.

真是金子，曾使他的财产一扫而光的洪水，却亦能使他成了富翁，人生亦常如此。

A tripod is a thing on which a priestess would sit on to announce an oracle7, symbolizing his office as a god of prophecy8; omphalos is an oval carved rock, said to have appeared first after the great flood as the center, navel9 of the universe.

三脚架通常是女祭司坐在上面宣布神谕的物件，象征着他预言之神的职责；世界之脐神石是一颗雕刻有花纹的圆锥形石头，据说在大洪水后，它作为世界中心、肚脐，最先露出地面。

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。