waist-deep

Sometimes they had to wade waist-deep through mud.

有时他们得通过齐腰深的泥浆。

Road closures meant she was forced to abandon the jeep and she ended up wading through waist-deep flood water with her camera kit wrapped in three bin liners as she desperately tried to get to Merewood Country House Hotel in Windermere on time.

然而，封锁的道路让她不得不放弃驱车前行。为了能按时到达位于温德米尔的梅尔伍德乡村酒店，不顾一切的她只好背起裹了三层垃圾袋的相机包，蹚过及腰的冰冷洪水，继续前行。

Ms Dawson, 37, a wedding photographer from Crosthwaite, outside Kendal, waded through freezing waist-deep water to make the first of her Lake District nuptials on Saturday, before hitching a lift in a tractor to get to Sunday's ceremony.

道森女士今年37岁，来自肯德尔郊区的科罗斯维特。12月5日当天，她从及腰的冰冷洪水中蹚过，第一个赶到位于湖区的婚礼现场。之后，她又搭了一辆拖拉机的顺风车，赶到6日的一场婚礼。