The problem was that after successfully floating over one wave you find that there is another one behind it just as strong and ready to flood your boat.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

And later on when God gets mad Right, and it's all going to flood.

接着上帝发怒了,好，它们就变成了洪水。

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And this new pharaoh will enslave the Israelites, and so embitter their lives, that their cry will rise up to heaven the same cry from the generation of the flood, the same cry from Sodom and Gomorrah.

这个新法老将会迫使以色列人为奴，他如此激怒他们，他们的哭号传至天堂,就像大洪水时期一样的哭号，像来自罪恶之城俄摩拉城一样的哭号。

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The World Food Program is distributing food to flood-affected victims in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mauritania.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Certainly if you buy them out somewhere you're going to get one that's maybe the size of a light bulb, but it's like the flood light in your backyard or something, it's a huge light.

当然,你在外购买时,倒是有可能买到灯泡大小的,不过是你家后院强光灯大小的灯泡,巨大的灯泡

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But then, as industry in those countries grew larger,and more jobs opened, the flood of immigration began to slow.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

We seem to also have a different account of how long the flood lasted; there are more subtle contradictions throughout as well.

关于洪水持续了多久，我们有不同版本;,他们之中有很微妙的不同。

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Half the money from the festival will be given to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee for flood relief.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Sometimes the flood seems to be the result of very heavy rain, but in other descriptions it seems to be a real cosmic upheaval.

有人说，大洪水是大雨导致的，还有人说，是因为宇宙变动引起的。

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The family carries the body through flood and fire in an effort to get her body to Jefferson to be buried.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

In Genesis 6 through 9 we seem to have two flood stories with distinctive styles, and themes, and vocabularies, and substantive details, but they're interwoven instead of being placed side by side.

创世纪》6到9章中，似乎又有各个版本的洪水故事,风格，主题，语言，重要的细节都不同,但他们联系紧密，而不能相互取代。

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And some people question whether it is wise to rebuild in an area that could easily flood again.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

It's the story of Ziusudra, and it's very similar to the Genesis flood story of Noah.

这讲的是朱苏德拉在洪水来临时自救的故事,与《创世纪》中诺亚方舟的故事很像。

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The Italian government is trying to fix the problem with the construction of a seven billion dollar system of moving flood barriers.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

You might want to get that out in front of you because we're going to talk a little bit about the flood story in Genesis 6 through 9.

你们也许急于摆脱它，因为基于你们对,《创世纪》6到9章的阅读，谈谈对大洪水故事的想法。

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She made the announcement May sixth during a local television program to raise money for flood relief.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

There are some passages in which the flood is said to have lasted for 40 days, or be on the earth for 40 days.

有些片段描述，比如说在《创世纪》第7章第17节中,雨要下40天。

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The aim of the project was to provide water and flood protection for developed areas and agriculture.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

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After eighteen eighty, the flood of immigration from northern and central Europe began to fall.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

It turns out that Utnapishtim can't help him, and we'll come back to Utnapishtim later in the flood story, and Gilgamesh is devastated.

结果他并不能帮助吉尔伽美什，等一会，我们在洪水的,故事中，还会提到Utnapishtim，吉尔伽美什几乎绝望了。

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They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

In both you have the flood coming about as the deliberate result of a divine decision; you have one individual who's chosen to be saved from the flood; that individual is given specific instructions on building an ark, and is given specific instructions on who to bring on-board the ark.

在两个故事中，洪水爆发都是神的旨意,也只有被选中的人，才能幸免于难,上帝告诉这个人，怎么造方舟,并详细规定了,可以带上方舟的物种。

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Singer and songwriter Kesha announced a flood benefit concert to take place June sixteenth.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

When the flood comes the gods themselves seem to have lost control.

当洪水到来时，似乎神也无法控制。

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All profits will be used to help families affected by the flood.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

They demanded an end to the flood of immigration.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

They wished to continue the flood of paper money.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

"Houses in our region used to have stilts a few meters above the ground in order to allow flood to stay there,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Emergency rescue services went in with rubber boats to get survivors - many had climbed to the rooftops to escape the flood.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27