Typhoon Hagibis dumped torrential rain, causing landslides and several inland rivers to burst through flood defenses. Nearly thirty people have died.

台风海贝斯带来了暴雨，导致山体滑坡和几条内陆河流冲破了防洪堤。近30人现已遇难。

A presidential spokesman said that more than $15m could be raised for flood defenses each year if the Senate was scrapped.

总统发言人称如果取消参议院，每年将能筹集至少1500万美元来进行水灾防御。

The prime minister of Greece, where wildfires are raging, says the country must urgently change its approach to fire prevention and flood defenses.

希腊正爆发严重大火，其总理表示该国防火和防汛的方法必须立即进行改革。

But the real problems run deeper. Rising sea levels and mass cruise ship tourism combined with political failures that have prevented adequate flood defenses.

但是威尼斯的真正问题在更深的层次。不断上升的海平面和大规模的游轮旅游，再加上政治上的失败，使得威尼斯没有足够的防洪能力。

Other countries in central Europe are also reinforcing their flood defenses, water levels on the Rhine, the Danube and many tributaries are at dangerous levels.

中欧其他国家也在加强洪灾防御，莱茵河、多瑙河和很多支流都已处于危险水位。

Outside, an army of volunteers is shoring up the flood defenses, including aid workers like Ravi Singh of the British-based aid agency, normally deployed in disaster zones overseas.

而在外面, 一群志愿者正在加固防汛措施, 包括通常部署在海外灾区的英国救援机构的救援人员拉维护·拉辛格。

If I invest a dollar of borrowed money on stronger seawalls, more muscular flood defenses, more resilient health systems, I save several dollars.

如果我把借来的一美元资金投资于更坚固的海堤、更强大的防洪堤、更有弹性的卫生系统，我就能节省几美元。

The owner of the property, Dave Donson here, he's been building up the flood defenses as best he can to try and protect the rest of his home from the flood water.

房主戴夫·丹森在这里, 他尽自己所能堆了防汛措施保护他的家庭免受灾害。

The governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, said more than 8,000 members of the National Guard were being deployed across the state to help with flood defense, search and rescue work and to guard against looting.

路易斯安那州州长鲍比·金达尔说已经在全州部署了8000多名国民警卫来帮助抵御洪水，进行搜救工作并预防打劫活动。