We found ourselves ankle-deep in water.

水淹到了我们的脚踝。

《牛津词典》

The rain fell in torrents, insomuch that the soldiers were often ankle-deep in water.

大雨倾盆，因而士兵们时时需涉水而行。

youdao

Before that, sewage and waste would just flow right down the street. Sometimes ankle-deep…You're gonna be starving after moving.

在这之前，污水和垃圾会直接顺着街道流下去，有时会淹没脚踝……你搬家后会感到很饿的。

youdao

I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.

CNN: Thompson's September 7, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa