This is the type of flood dreaded by cavers.
这正是探察洞穴者惧怕的那种洪水。
The flood waters gradually subsided.
洪水缓缓回落。
The flood waters slowly retreated.
洪水慢慢地消退。
When we read the flood story in Genesis 6 through 9, we're often struck by the very odd literary style.
当我们在《创世纪》中读到关于大洪水故事时,会觉得文风非常奇怪。
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。
We also know of a very early Semitic work, the Epic of Atrahasis, in which there's a flood.
我们也听过古老的闪米特人,《阿特拉哈西斯》中大洪水的传说。
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