Then the spring freshets brought down rich mud and plastered it all lover the bottom of the lake.

然后春天的洪水带来了丰富的泥，并把泥贴满了湖底。

A freshet has a few definitions, but usually it fills with water after a heavy snow.

小溪有几个定义， 但通常在大雪过后它会充满水。

Suddenly a stream of barefooted youths in turbans, clad in ascetic ochre, rushes into the quadrangle, like a silt-reddened freshet into a dry river-bed at the first burst of the rains.

突然，一群头戴头巾、穿着苦行土色衣服的赤脚青年冲进了四合院，就像第一场暴雨时被淤泥染红的小河冲进了干涸的河床。