The river floods, sweeping her parents away.

河流泛滥，把她的父母卷走。

When the river floods, it is even wider.

当河水泛滥时，它会变得更宽。

To the north, the Beas River overflowed, carrying vehicles downstream as the river flooded neighborhoods.

在北部，贝阿斯河泛滥，河水淹没了居民区，车辆顺流而下。

In fact sometimes it rains so much that the river floods.

事实上，有时雨下得太多以至于河水泛滥。

The houses down by the river flood quite regularly.

【flood】沿河的房屋常遭水淹。

When the river floods, water seeps through the levees and even tops over them.

当河流泛滥时， 水会渗过堤坝，甚至漫过堤坝。

'If they did they wouldn't have the river flooding their houses every second winter'.

“如果他们这样做了， 他们的房子就不会每第二个冬天就被河水淹没” 。

Each summer the river flooded the fields at precisely the right time, leaving behind nutrient-rich silt for planting season.

每年夏天，河流都会在正确的时间淹没田地，为播种季节留下营养丰富的淤泥。

So if a river floods, and then the water recedes, the water goes away from the places where it shouldn't have been back into the river.

因此，如果河流泛滥， 然后水退去，水就会从不应该回流的地方流走。

In 2020, over just two months, more than 400 rivers flooded across China - many of them worse than ever before - and at least 50 million people were impacted.

2020 年，仅两个月的时间，中国就有 400 多条河流发生洪水泛滥——其中许多比以往任何时候都更糟——至少有 5000 万人受到影响。