They've constructed dykes, dams, floodgates, canals, pumping stations, and more all in their effort to push the sea back.

他们修建了堤坝、水坝、水闸、运河、抽水站，以及更多的设施，是为了把海水推回去。

Extreme weather events are threatening other Italian regions from Venice, where the MOSE floodgates have been raised to protect the city from high water to Sicily, where heavy storms down trees and flooded homes.

极端天气事件正威胁着从威尼斯到意大利其他地区，在那里，MOSE水闸已经被抬高，以保护西西里岛的城市免受高水位的影响，暴雨吹倒了树木，淹没了房屋。

Once I started to know more people, and showed them my willingness to socialize, the floodgates opened, and somehow it was expected of me to hangout with them regularly, and, basically, spend my free time in social settings.

一旦我开始认识更多的人，并向他们展示我社交的意愿，闸门就打开了，不知何故，人们期望我定期和他们在一起，基本上，把我的空闲时于社交场合。

You are opening the floodgates my friend.

朋友 你释放了洪水猛兽。

And she could not let herself cry. She had not really cried since she came home and she knew that if she once let down the floodgates, her closely husbanded courage would all be gone.

可她不能呀，她这次回家以后还没真正，她知道只要一旦把闸门打开，她那勉强保持着的勇气就会全部消失了。

So in the view of a lot of analysts, this now kind of opens the floodgates potentially to other companies looking to come in and do deals of this kind of size.

因此，在许多分析师看来，这现在可能为其他希望进入并进行这种规模交易的公司打开了闸门。

It's the first time a public nuisance argument has been successful in such a case and could open the floodgates to further legal challenges around the country.

这是此类案件中首次取得成功的妨害公众诉讼，可能会引发全国各地进一步的法律诉讼。

Mr Mas faces up to five years in prison and a 32,000-pound fine. But a guilty verdict would open the floodgate to compensation claims worldwide.

Mas被判5年徒刑，并处以3.2万英镑的罚款。有罪判决作出后，该公司可能要赔偿全世界的索赔者。

The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992, but the floodgates really opened in 2009, with the launch of Kepler, a planet-hunting space probe.

首个系外行星发现于1992年，是直到2009年，开普勒星球探测器发射后，系外行星的大门才真的被打开。

You can test this, just put a drop of lemon juice on your tongue and wait for the floodgates to open.

你可以测试一下，只需在舌头上滴一滴柠檬汁，等待“闸门”打开。

And what might that floodgate be holding?

那扇闸门能容纳什么呢？

If the sustainable-egg roll out is successful, it could open the floodgates for regenerative beef broccoli and beyond.

如果可持续鸡蛋推广成功，它将为再生牛肉西兰花及其他产品打开闸门。

And so we hide, and we hide behind what we like to call the floodgate of intimacy.

所以我们藏起来，躲在我们喜欢的所谓亲密的闸门后面。

This innocent query opens a floodgate of discontent that takes both Sheila and the viewer by surprise.

这个单纯的提问立刻打开了倾泻不满的闸门，让希拉和观众大吃一惊。

The UN chief said the floodgates of horror have re-opened due to the suspension of aid.

联合国秘书长表示，由于援助的暂停，恐怖的闸门已重启。

It's time to open the floodgates.

所以是时候打开泪水的阀门了。

Like higher and stronger levees, floodgates, pumping stations, river controls, and dredging up new artificial land to replace their natural wetland defenses.

比如更高更坚固的堤坝、防洪闸、抽水站、河流控制设施，以及疏浚新的人工土地来取代天然湿地防御。

I think overall Virgil, he opened the floodgates in fashion for many different reasons.

我认为总的来说，维吉尔出于多种不同的原因打开了时尚界的闸门。

The word " kufungisisa" opens up a floodgate of tears.

“kufungisisa” 这个词打开了眼泪的闸门。

It can open the floodgates to  more companies and more planes.

它可以为更多的公司和更多的飞机打开闸门。