洪水

When the waters receded, more than 125000 people were dead and some 9 million left homeless.

当洪水退去后，超过 125000 人死亡，大约九百万人无家可归。

But let's put it this way, the Great Flood wasn't a patch on what 2012 recreates.

这么说吧，创世纪里描述的大洪水都比不上《2012》创造的场景。

But it was the oil that helped many of those places to become what they are by strengthening their currencies and making the rest of their economies uncompetitive. Oil weakens the bonds between governments and people by flooding public coffers with money, removing the need for wise spending. And it rends societies, making them vulnerable to civil war.

但是石油业帮助这些地区巩固了他们的货币控制石油带来的如洪水一般的资金绷紧了政府和人民之间的纽带，因为资金流入政府官员手里却没有用在真正需要周转的方面社会大众被激怒了这样下去很容易导致内战。

Then we had to wait for the water to go down before we could start replanting.

我们不得不等洪水退去后才能再次播种。

At the same time, officials appear to have finally become aware of the environmental depredation China faces, and the damage that dams cause, and are frantically stopping farming and resettling villagers to plant forest in an effort to halt desertification and flood damage on denuded hills.

与此同时，政府官员似乎也意识到了中国面临的环境威胁，比如建设三峡大坝的副作用。因此在疯狂地征用粮食耕地，而要求农民在光秃秃的山上植树造林，试图阻止土地沙化和洪水的发生。

When the river flood washed away the equipment, the CH-47Ds quickly resupplied the engineers.

每当洪水冲走浮桥设备时，CH-47D能迅速的重新供应相应物资。

They retreated from the flood to the top of a hill.

他们从洪水中撤退，推到一个小山顶上。

A sandbagged levee is still keeping the Cedar River out of downtown Cedar Falls , Iowa .

沙袋防护堤已控制住雪松河的洪水，爱荷华州雪松瀑布市免于水患。

Flood fears in the Midwest are now moving downriver. The Illinois Army National Guard is helping with sandbagging duties in Quincy.

威胁中西部的洪水现在正在向下游转移，伊利诺斯州陆军国民警卫队目前正用沙袋在昆西地区进行抗洪。

HW1. Flood fears in the Midwest are now moving downriver. The Illinois Army National Guard is helping with sandbagging duties in Quincy.

中西部地区对洪水的恐惧正沿着河流向下蔓延，伊利诺斯州国家防卫队正在昆西县帮助筑堤。

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。