Almost four years after the storm, a quarter of the population has never returned. A third of homes still lie empty, many decked with tarpaulins and with the flood-line still visible.

风暴过去了差不多四年，四分之一的人口从未返家，三分之一的家园仍然闲置，很多房屋一直装着防水布，上面洪水的痕迹依然清晰可辨。

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Dr Ronald, of the University of California, Davis, has been working for the last 15 years to isolate the gene for flood tolerance in rice.

罗奈尔德博士来自加州大学戴维斯分校，15年来，她致力于从水稻中分离出抗洪基因。

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This flood of extra resources, plus an enhanced oversight role the G20 has given to the fund, will be a huge turnaround for an institution whose relevance had slumped in the boom years.

这一大批额外的资源，加上G 20峰会给予IMF的得到强化的监管角色，对于这个其存在意义在繁荣年代直线下滑的机构来说将是一次重大的转变。

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The city has experienced major flooding in three of the past four years, including a record flood in 2009, and the Weather Service forecasts a rise of 31 to 36 inches this year.

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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, appearing with LaHood, said the task force he leads that is overseeing the federal disaster response examined 10 years of FEMA flood mitigation efforts to reach the new standard.

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Besides, experience over the past 30 years shows that flood damage keeps increasing despite the expenditure of vast sums on flood control.

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