Rainfall was limited, and what water there was rushed across the plain in the annual flood of melted snow.

降雨量有限，每年融化的雪水洪流冲过平原，成为滋润此地的水源。

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The pioneering chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot found that annual flood levels of the Nile follow this pattern; others have observed it in music and air turbulence.

混沌理论先驱Benoit Mandelbrot发现尼罗河每年的洪水泛滥程度符合这个性质，音乐和空气湍流中也有这个性质。

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"On average, they consume about eight percent of our mean annual run-off," he says. "they pose large risks of fire, flood and of course, famine."

“它们平均每年消耗掉我国约8%的有限年径流量，”他说：“它们带来了很大的火险、洪水以及饥荒隐患。”

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We have an annual flood awareness campaign which happens in September and hopefully your listener will have received correspondence from us.

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As at most camps in the Okavango, game-viewing at Abu is by customized safari vehicle, or, at the time of the annual flood, by makoro (local dugout canoe).

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