We had the canals coming up, and more or less overflowing.運河也或多或少有過溢流

come up靠近，走進

His new book did not come up to expectation.

他的新作沒有達到預(yù)期水平。

Come up to the fire, and you will thaw out.

到火爐邊來，你就會覺得暖和。

But for Daniel and Rotterdam, that's a small price to pay for the level ofprotection it brings.但丹尼爾和鹿特丹市都認為花這點錢就能如此有效地保護城市還是很劃算的

pay for付款

She had to scrimp and save to pay for her holiday.

她不得不為付假期的費用而苦苦攢錢。

I took out an overdraft to pay for my new car.

我用透支來付新汽車的錢。

but it's going to come out in shorter amounts of time,但短暫的降水過程中雨水量會增加

come out出現(xiàn)；顯露

Two cotyledons have come out from the seedling.

小苗長出了兩片子葉。

Generally magazines come out at stated periods.

一般來說，雜志定時出版。