This instrument, called a Nilometer was used by the ancient Pharaohs to establish how high the periodic floods would be. The Nilometer, on the presupposition that the harvest would be plentiful, was nothing other than a device for setting income tax level.

"Nilometer"设备,是古代法老用来预测一定时期内洪水的可能高度。用于推断丰收与否的"Nilometer",其实就是制定税收标准的装置。

属类：社会文化-旅游-

In co-ordination with the plans for river basins, there should be widespread construction of small water conservancy projects to ensure basic control over ordinary floods and droughts within seven years

(七)同流域规划相结合,大量地兴修小型水利,保证在七年内基本上消灭普通的水灾旱灾。

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The Red Cross flew to the area of the floods , ready to dole out supplies of food and medicine.

〞红十字会飞往洪涝地区,准备发放食物与药品。〞

属类：综合句库--

When floods threatened the German city of Hamburg in the early 1970s, Helmut Schmidt, the mayor, worked day and night to organize relief efforts.

19世纪早期,洪水侵袭德国汉堡,当时的市长赫尔穆特·施密特夜以继日地工作,组织救援活动。

属类：人文学科-经济伦理学-伦理修炼

The strike, coupled with floods , was expected to reduce supplies of food drastically

罢工加上洪水预计会使食品供应大量减少。

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alarming water level was breached on the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River at this summer end following rainstorms and floods

暴雨、洪水,长江中下游全线突破警戒水位……今年夏末,长江的汛情一度非常紧急。

属类：综合句库--

City planning shall conform with the city's needs for fire-fighting, the prevention of explosions, the mitigation of earthquakes, the prevention of floods and of mud-rock flows, public security, traffic control and civil air defence construction. In areas where strong earthquakes and serious floods are likely to occur, measures for earthquake mitigation and flood prevention must be specified in the plan for a city.

编制城市规划应当符合城市防火、防爆、抗震、防洪、防泥石流和治安、交通管理、人民防空建设等要求;在可能发生强烈地震和严重洪水灾害的地区,必须在规划中采取相应的抗震、防洪措施。

属类：法学专业-中国法律-城市规划法

Force majeure includes, but is not limited to, strike in general, embargo, acts of government, riots, war, whether declared or not declared, mobilization and requisition, fires, floods

不可抗力包括但不限于罢工、禁运、政府行为、骚乱、宣布或未宣布的战争、动员和征用、火灾、水灾。

属类：商务文书-合同-

Erosion of a relatively soft surface,such as a roadbed,by a sudden gush of water,as from a downpour or floods .

冲刷相对松软表面的冲刷,如路基被源于暴雨或洪水的水流冲刷

属类：综合句库--

During spring rains the river floods .

春雨期间河水泛滥。

属类：综合句库--

Heavy floods hit Northeastern India.

大洪水袭击了印度东北部。

属类：综合句库--

Once a terrible disaster hit the earth. The sky collapsed and cracked, the earth tilted and split. Endless rains caused fierce floods , crevices in the ground sent out raging fires.

大祸降临,天塌地裂。豪雨不停,洪水泛滥。地上的裂缝喷吐着烈火。

属类：人文学科-历史-文明史

The heavy rain brought disastrous floods .

大雨带来了灾难性的水灾。

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After the heavy rain floods ensued followed

大雨引发了洪水。

属类：学习英语-同义词辨析-

The heavy rain led to serious floods .

大雨造成了严重的水灾。

属类：综合句库--

after the heavy rains, floods ensued.

大雨之后,接着发生了洪水。

属类：综合句库--

After the heavy rains, floods ensued.

大雨之后洪水接踵而来

属类：综合句库--

This passion hath his floods ,in very times of weakness;which are great prosperity,and great adversity;though this latter hath been less observed:both which times kindle love,and make it more fervent,and therefore show it to be the child of folly.

当人心最软弱的时候,爱情最容易入侵,那就是当人得意春风,忘乎所以和处境窘困孤独凄零的时候,虽然后者未必能得到爱情。人在这样的时候最急于跳入爱情的火焰中,由此可见,“爱情”实在是“愚蠢”的儿子。

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The shake of the earth created many deep pits causing floods of water sprouted from the heart of the earth.

地上也被震出横一道竖一道的许多深坑,地心涌出了洪水

属类：社会文化-传说-女娲补天

Article 13. The development and utilization of water resources shall conform to the overall arrangement for the prevention of floods , follow the principle of promoting benefits while eliminating disasters, and take into consideration the interests of upstream and downstream areas, of the left and right banks and of all regions concerned, so as to give full play to the comprehensive benefits of water resources.

第十三条 　开发利用水资源,应当服从防洪的总体安排,实行兴利与除害相结合的原则,兼顾上下游、左右岸和地区之间的利益,充分发挥水资源的综合效益。

属类：法学专业-中国法律-水法

The Ministry disclosed that the floods have devastated a vast area of the country, from Shaanxi Province in the northwest, through Sichuan Province and Chongqing in the southwest, to Fujian Province and Jiangxi Province in the southeast

该部披露,洪水重创全国广大地区,从西北的陕西省经西南的四川省和重庆市到东南的福建、江西两省。

属类：综合句库--

Send relief(eg food,tents,money,etc)to those made homeless by floods

给水灾中无家可归的人发送救援物资(如食品、帐篷、金钱等)

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

During the disaster age about 2000 years ago, the earth was stricken by severe cold, terrible quakes 'and monstrous floods , which brewed wars and massive migrations. Numerous peoples from south China migrated southward to become part of Siamese, Malays, Philippines, Indonesians and Papuans.

公元2000年前的夏禹宇宙期,地球上灾害频仍,严寒、地震、洪水接踵而至,酿成战祸,诱发大规模移民。华南的百越三苗被迫南移,成为暹罗人、马来人、菲律宾人、印尼人和巴布亚人的祖先。

属类：人文学科-历史-文明史

The Ganges River was in the throes of one of the worst floods it had ever known.

恒河遭受到一次空前大泛滥的苦难。

属类：综合句库--

The floods have swept the bridge away.

洪水把桥冲走了。

属类：综合句库--

The floods caved in that dike.

洪水冲坍了那座堤坝。

属类：综合句库--

The floods found a vent through the dykes.

洪水从堤上的一个裂缝处涌出。

属类：综合句库--

after the floods , the local people lost everything; that is, they had no food, no clothing, no nothing.

洪水过后,当地的人丧失了一切,无衣无食,一无所有。

属类：综合句库--

The floods have not yet subsided.

洪水还没退。

属类：综合句库--

Several villages have been isolated by the floods .

洪水使好几座村庄与外界隔绝了。

属类：综合句库--