Floods happen when rivers rise and overflow their banks.

洪水发生在河流上涨并漫过河岸的时候。

After a long period of rain the river may overflow its banks.

久雨之后，河水会泛滥成灾。

This after a glacial lake overflowed its banks following days of torrential rain.

这是在经历了数天的暴雨后，其中一个冰川湖中的湖水溢出河岸导致的。

It is, in fact, a swamp caused by the waters overflowing the river banks.

实际上，那是一片由于河水溢出河床流到岸边形成的沼泽地。

Rivers there threaten to overflow their banks, flooding towns, closing roads and forcing evacuations.

那里的河流将要溢出河岸，淹没城镇，关闭道路，迫使人们撤离，情况危急。

The Nile has not overflowed its banks, and the priests have cursed Isis and Osiris.

尼罗河水并没有冲上岸来，牧师们正痛骂他们自己的神爱西斯和阿西里斯。

Flooding is expected to continue to several days as rivers and creeks overflow their banks.

预计未来几天洪水还将持续，河流和小溪的水位已经超过河堤。

But during the floods, the river overflowed its banks, raged south, and cut this new waterfall.

但在洪水期间，河水漫过河岸，向南肆虐，切断了这个新的瀑布。

Videos show families on the rooftops of their houses pleading for help as rivers overflowed their banks.

视频显示，人们在屋顶上呼救，河水已经漫过堤岸。

Let me explain these words. In the land of Egypt the river Nile overflows its banks once a year.

让我来解释一下这句话。在埃及，尼罗河每年会有一次溢出河堤。

Then it overflows its banks and floods the city.

然后河水漫过堤岸，淹没了城市。

But when the Big Muddy overflows its banks, it ravages crops, homes, and lives.

但是， 当大泥泞漫过河岸时，它会毁坏庄稼、家园和生命。

A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake, and even in its waters, as though the latter had overflowed its usual banks.

一百座土房矗立在湖边，甚至在湖水中，仿佛湖水已经漫过了平常的河岸。

All too often, this powerful river was overflowing its banks, flooding fields and causing millions of dollars in crop damage, while other farmers weren't getting the water they needed.

这条强大的河流经常泛滥成灾，淹没农田，造成数百万美元的农作物损失，而其他农民却得不到他们需要的水。

A rapid thaw had suddenly set in: I had been informed that the river had risen, that the brooks had all overflowed their banks, and that the whole vale of Walheim was under water!

一场迅速的解冻突然开始了：我被告知河水已经上涨，小溪已经泛滥成河，整个瓦尔海姆山谷都被淹没了！

It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

正月，约旦河水涨过两岸的时候，他们过河，使一切住平原的人东奔西逃。