The men of our family waded down through our flooded meadows with boat hooks, in the hope of being able to grapple a corner of the raft and pull it out of the current towrds our bank.

我们家的男人们带着船钩涉水穿过被洪水淹没的草地，希望能抓住木筏的一角， 把它从水流中拉到我们的岸边。