A few years ago, there were about 100-thousand to 120-thousand birds inhabiting Dongting Lake for the winter.

“几年前，大概有10万到12万只鸟会来洞庭湖过冬。

In 2002, there were only around 200 types of birds in the East Dongting Lake National Reserve.

“2002年，东洞庭湖保护区大概只有200种鸟类。

As one of the largest impounded lakes of the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake has a strong flood storage capacity.

作为长江沿线最大的储水湖之一，洞庭湖有很强的分洪能力。

Following the dike breach, a large volume of water from Dongting Lake rushed into the Tuanzhou dike region, flooding 47.6 square kilometers of the region's total area of 55 sq km.

堤坝决堤导致洞庭湖的大量湖水涌入团洲垸，淹没了该地区的47.6平方公里，其总面积约为55平方千米。

The breach, 226 meters wide, occurred at around 5: 48 pm on Friday at a dike in Tuanzhou, a township in Huarong county in the city of Yueyang, which is part of a dike network around Dongting Lake, China's second-largest freshwater lake.

17时48分许，紧急封堵失败，堤坝决堤，经初步勘测，决堤口宽度约10米。团洲垸是中国第二大淡水湖洞庭湖周围堤坝防护的一部分。

Yueyang Tower, a tourist magnet perching along the Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, said it sold more than 22,000 ice pops, priced at 18 yuan (2.8 US dollars), in the shape of the ancient building during the five-day holiday.

位于湖南省洞庭湖沿岸的岳阳楼表示， 在五天的假期中，它售出了 22, 000 多根古建筑形状的冰棒， 售价为 18 元（2. 8 美元）。