Water levels rose through the weekend, hitting those who live along the Missouri River the hardest.

仅一个周末，水位就大幅上升，受灾最严重的是密苏里河沿岸生活的民众。

Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury.

我们其中一些人有足够时间认识死亡，他们得以活得更努力、更执着、更壮烈。

So they had to live very hard, on nuts and roots which they scratched out of the ground with sticks.

因此，他们不得不过着非常艰难的生活，靠用棍子从地里挖出的坚果和树根为生。