Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood.

尼罗河虽然在一年的大部分时间里平静而祥和，但是过去每年都会泛滥，从而生成、灌溉并把新的表层土搬运到附近的古埃及人赖以为生的农田。

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Refugees continue to flood into neighbouring countries.

难民不断涌入邻国。

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Many walls broke, allowing billions of liters of water from the Gulf of Mexico and two nearby lakes to flood the city.

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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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According to the politicians this building will cause sports fans and conventioneers to flood our hotels.

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Predictably, copies began to flood the marketplace--the fake Louis Vuitton handbags of their day.

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He notes that the company is not factoring in any share gains related to flood-related disruptions.

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