Forecasting floods is not an exact science.

预测洪水不是一门精密科学。

Floods washed out much of the railway line.

洪水冲毁了很多铁轨。

The floods caused havoc throughout the area.

洪水给整个地区带来了灾害。

They sandbagged their homes to keep out floods.

他们给房屋堆沙袋以阻挡洪水。

More than 70 people were killed in the floods, caused when a dam burst.

大坝决堤引发的洪水灾吞噬了七十多人的生命。

The topography of the river's basin has changed significantly since the floods.

洪水过后，这条河的流域地形已经明显改变了。

Floods have become more damaging in Bangladesh in recent decades.

近几十年来，洪水对孟加拉国的带来的破坏越来越大。

Lake Moeris received its water from the annual floods of the Nile.

莫里斯湖每年从尼罗河的洪水中获取水源。

In 1928, people living in Westminster, the heart of London, drowned in floods.

1928年，住在伦敦市中心威斯敏斯特的人们被洪水淹死。

These include droughts, floods, windstorms, strong tropical winds and wildfires.

这些包括干旱、洪水、风暴、强劲的热带季风和野火。

There would be no weather-related crop failures due to droughts, floods or pests.

不会发生干旱、洪水或害虫导致与天气相关的农作物歉收的现象。

At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

至少在春天到来之前，他们一直在处理洪灾。

Heavy snows in the region during the winter of 2009-2010 heightened the risk of springtime floods.

2009至2010年隆冬的大幅降雪增加了这一地区春季发生洪水的风险。

When trees are burnt down, and heavy rain follows, more disasters such as terrible floods will happen.

当树木被烧毁，大雨随之而来，更多的灾难，如可怕的洪水将会发生。

Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.

去年，发生在其主要马铃薯种植区的暴风雨和洪水致使收成创30多年新低。

In 1953, one hundred people, living on the eastern edge of the London suburbs were killed, again, in the floods.

无独有偶，在1953年，住在伦敦东部郊区的100人也在洪水中丧生。

Latest reports from the northeast provinces say that at least sixteen people lost their lives in Sunday's floods.

来自东北省份的最新报道称，至少16人在周日的洪水中丧生。

They'd lost their home and many or all of their possessions through fires, floods, earthquakes, or some other disaster.

他们在火灾、洪水、地震和其他灾难中失去了家园和许多财产，有些人甚至失去了全部财产。

A 16th-century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

苏格兰一座16世纪的城堡即将坍塌，因为洪水冲走了大块大块的泥土，对地基造成了威胁。

Massive floods, long droughts, hurricanes and severe monsoons take their toll each year, destroying millions of tons of valuable crops.

大规模的洪水、长期的干旱、飓风和严重的季风每年都会造成损失，摧毁数百万吨有价值的农作物。

The glaciers are melting, storms have increased in ferocity, and there are landslides and floods, followed by droughts and deforestation.

冰川正在融化，风暴越来越凶猛，山体滑坡和洪水，随之而来的是干旱和森林砍伐。

The floods in Swat and the Indus valley are, like the yellow fever mosquitoes of the Netherlands, an indication that things could get worse.

斯瓦特和印度河流域的洪水就像荷兰的黄热病蚊子一样，是形势可能恶化的象征。

Because each individual is short-lived, the population of an opportunist species is likely to be adversely affected by drought, bad winters, or floods.

因为每个个体的生命都是短暂的，“机会主义者”这类物种的群体数量很可能受到干旱、严冬或者洪水等不利因素的影响。

For centuries, the annual floods of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, for example, have brought fertile silts and water to the inhabitants of their lower valleys.

比如，几个世纪以来，尼罗河、底格里斯河和幼发拉底河每年的洪水给下游山谷的居民带来了肥沃的淤泥和水源。

Species extinction, deforestation, damming of rivers, occurrence of floods, the depletion of ozone, the degradation of ocean systems and many other areas are all experiencing acceleration.

物种灭绝、森林砍伐、河流筑坝、洪水、臭氧层损耗、海洋系统恶化和许多其他变化都在加速发生。

He was in floods of tears on the phone.

他在电话里大哭。

The floods are the worst in living memory.

那次洪水在人们的记忆中是最严重的。

The cellar floods whenever it rains heavily.

只要一下大雨地窖就淹水。

When the Ganges floods, it causes considerable damage.

恒河泛滥时造成严重损害。

The floods are described as the worst in nearly fifty years.

这场洪水被描述为近五十年来最严重的一次。