Twenty minutes later, all that changed. Grandmother walked by the bathroom and noticed a torrent of water streaming out from under the door.
二十分钟过去了，一切全都变了。当祖母从洗手间旁边走过，她发现从门缝里涌出洪水。The shore is littered with trees that have washed downriver in recent floods. Many seem to have been felled rather than uprooted.
海滩上到处是近期洪水冲下河来的断枝残木。许多树看上去都是被折断，而不是连根拨起的。Global warming was one of the many factors responsible for the worst flooding in decades.
在这几个十年里，全球变暖是造成大洪水泛滥的诸多因素之一。Since then, what started as trickle of apologies has turned into something of a flood.
从这以后，以涓涓细流开始的道歉就变成了道歉的滔滔洪水。I had dealt with a lot of natural disasters as governor, including floods, droughts, and tornadoes, but I had never seen anything like this.
担任州长期间，我曾处理过不少自然灾害，包括洪水、旱灾和龙卷风，但我从未见过如此惨状。No doubt Noah and his family must have talked together about relatives and friends who did not accept the ark as a means of salvation.
毫无疑问，挪亚一家在洪水降临之前，一定四出奔走，劝他的亲戚朋友相信进入方舟才可得救。"It is crazy, " she said. "The quake is not finished, but the flood is coming. "
她说，简直要疯了，地震还没完，洪水又要来了。What was just a trickle of controls before the current crisis is now a flood.
在当前危机之前曾经只是涓涓细流的资本管制，现在已成了泛滥的洪水。He said that if the floods got worse they would have to leave the house.
他说如果洪水涨得更高，他们就得离开那所房子。