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。

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。

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。〞

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。

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。

The town was destroyed by the floods after the storm

暴风雨后的洪水冲毁了这座城镇

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。

Thousands of people were affected by the floods

成千上万的人受到的洪水的影响。

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

During spring rains the river floods .

春雨期间河水泛滥。

Heavy floods hit Northeastern India.

大洪水袭击了印度东北部。

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。

The heavy rain brought disastrous floods .

大雨带来了灾难性的水灾。

The heavy rain led to serious floods .

大雨造成了严重的水灾。

after the heavy rains, floods ensued.

大雨之后,接着发生了洪水。

After the heavy rains, floods ensued.

大雨之后洪水接踵而来

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。

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

Earthquakes, floods , forest fires, tidal waves, tornadoes- all these and many other disasters too- mean pain and distress for the victims.

地震、水灾、森林火灾、海啸、飓风--所有这些及其他灾难对受害者都意味着痛苦与不幸。

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。

The chief cause of the loss of oxen is to be found not in the co-operatives but in floods , in the high price of ox hides and in the shortage of fodder while some oxen are too old and have to be slaughtered

耕牛死亡主要原因不在合作社，而是由于水灾，牛皮价格过高，饲料不够，还有一些是老了，应当杀了。

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。

The floods have swept the bridge away.

洪水把桥冲走了。

The floods caved in that dike.

洪水冲坍了那座堤坝。

The floods found a vent through the dykes.

洪水从堤上的一个裂缝处涌出。

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。

The floods have not yet subsided.

洪水还没退。

Several villages have been isolated by the floods .

洪水使好几座村庄与外界隔绝了。

The land was desolated by floods .

洪水使田野荒芜

The floods interrupted railway services.

洪水使铁路运输中断。