Thus, by forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive, Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs--now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life--forest and garden, with all their wealth of fruit and flowers, the air stirred into one universal hum with rejoicing insects, a milky way of wings and petals, girdling the newborn mountain like a cloud, as if the vivifying sunbeams beating against its sides had broken into a foam of plant-bloom and bees.英文原著 · 《Steep Trails》
Illumination, "triple moonlight," three times the strength of the moon's rays. Searchlights flood the building; concealed yellow lights on cornices in rear of columns. Three effects; flood lighting, relief lighting, and combination of both. One night, flood light; next, combination.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
No wiser we than men of heretofore To find thy sacred fountains guarded fast; Enough, thy flood makes green our human shore, As Nilus Egypt, rolling down his vast His fertile flood, that murmurs evermore Of gods dethroned, and empires in the past.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
"Well, Mr. Granice, the stars in their courses are against you, as the bard says. Can't get a trace of Flood, or of Leffler either. And you say you bought the motor through Flood, and sold it through him, too?"英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》