已造成40人死亡，灾难状态覆盖全市50个区，专家警告极端洪水将在东南亚进一步恶化。曼谷习惯在雨季吸收突如其来的午后暴雨，甚至市中心许多高楼林立的街区也会短暂变成河流，老鼠和蟑螂从下水道涌出，暂时躲在树木和建筑物上，地下世界被冲刷一空。
With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia Bangkok is used to absorbing the sudden afternoon downpours that inundate the city during the rainy season. Even streets in many central high-rise districts can briefly turn into rivers, with rats and cockroaches racing out of sewers and taking temporary refuge on trees and buildings as the subterranean world is flushed out.
但每座城市都有崩溃点，今年降雨来得如此猛烈迅速，泰国首都整个街区已被改造，不再是河流，而是停滞的湖泊。城市部分地区约300毫米降雨——相当于伦敦半年平均降雨量——在约两天内倾泻而下。
But every city has a breaking point, and this year rain fell so fast and so hard that whole neighbourhoods of the Thai capital have been transformed, not into rivers, but stagnant lakes. In parts of the city, roughly 300mm of rain – the equivalent of half a year of average rainfall in London – fell in about two days.