对洪水的预测并不是一门精确科学。Forecasting floods is not an exact science.他们在房屋周围堆沙袋以抵御洪水的侵袭。They sandbagged their homes to keep out floods.据说,那里遭受了一场大洪水的袭击.It is said that there has been a big flood....

“洪水的”的英语可以翻译为：pluvial，cataclysmal，cataclysmic ...