我从开罗驱车南行，进入尼罗河河谷， 这里的景色没有受到现代社会的影响。
Driving southward from Cairo into the Nile Valley, I entered a landscape that owed little to the present era.
三角洲和南边狭窄的尼罗河河谷只占埃及土地的百分之三，却有百分之九十六的人口住在这里。
The delta and the narrow Nile Valley to the south make up only 3 percent of Egypt's land but are home to 96 percent of her population.
除了地中海沿岸少数非常狭窄的区域，以及底格里斯、幼发拉底和尼罗河河谷之外，农业几乎是不可能的。
With the exception of a few very narrow strips along the Mediterranean, and the river valleys of the Tigris, Euphrates and the Nile, agriculture is virtually impossible.
五千年前，埃及在尼罗河谷真正开始繁荣。
5,000 years ago, Egypt really began to flourish out in the Nile River valley.
当人们意识到这不仅仅是一场暂时的干旱时，他们中的许多人迁移到了尼罗河谷，这是唯一合乎逻辑的假设。
It's only logical to hypothesize that a lot of these people migrated to the Nile valley when they realized that this was more than a temporary drought.
在他即位的第六年，尼罗河因为连日暴雨而水位上涨，淹没了河谷，但是却是当年谷物丰收而没有摧毁任何村落。
During his sixth year on the throne, the Nile swelled from rains, inundating the valleys and yielding a spectacular harvest of grain without sweeping away any villages.
但官员指出，埃及8200万人口中十分之九挤在面积比丹麦还小的尼罗河谷内。
But officials point out that nine-tenths of Egypt's 82m people are squeezed into the Nile valley, an area smaller than Denmark.
小范围的个人努力已经吞噬掉了沿尼罗河谷的多片沙漠，尼罗河三角洲以东和以西河源的地方都是运河支流。
smaller-scale private efforts have eaten up deserts all along the river valley and far to the east and west of the delta.
GoogleEarth上瞟一眼就能看到在尼罗河谷沿途以及远至三角洲东西部的沙漠地带，小规模的私人工程星罗棋布。
As a glance at Google Earth will show, smaller-scale private efforts have eaten up deserts all along the river valley and far to the east and west of the delta.
棉花是尼罗河谷的主要农产品。
Cotton is the major agricultural product from the Nile Valley.
一种生于尼罗河谷的高的茅草，在古代它的纤维被用于多种用途。
Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times.
尼罗河谷地的新石器时代文化遗址中发现了大量石刀、石簇、石斧、石镰等等。
A lot of stone knives, clusters, axes, sickles have been unearthed in the cultural relics of Neolithic age in the Nile River valley.
南面是富饶的尼罗河谷地。
三角洲和南边狭窄的尼罗河谷只占埃及土地的百分之三，却有百分之九十六的人口住在这里。
The delta and the narrow Nile valley to the south make up only 3 percent of Egypt's land but are home to 96 percent of her population.
三角洲和南边狭窄的尼罗河谷只占埃及土地的百分之三，却有百分之九十六的人口住在这里。
The delta and the narrow Nile valley to the south make up only 3 percent of Egypt's land but are home to 96 percent of her population.
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