Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
土耳其计划利用底格里斯河与幼发拉底河的水来建造大型水力发电工程。
The filling of the Ataturk and other dams in Turkey has drastically reduced flows in the Euphrates, with potentially serious consequences for Syria and Iraq.
阿塔图尔克大坝以及土耳其境内其它大坝的填埋已经极大地减少了幼发拉底河的径流量，这可能会给叙利亚和伊拉克带来严重后果。
For centuries, the annual floods of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, for example, have brought fertile silts and water to the inhabitants of their lower valleys.
比如，几个世纪以来，尼罗河、底格里斯河和幼发拉底河每年的洪水给下游山谷的居民带来了肥沃的淤泥和水源。
His father belonged to the Lakhmid clan of seminomads who lived east of the Euphrates.
他的父亲属于居住在幼发拉底河以东的半游牧民族拉赫密德氏族。
The Euphrates, the colors of the waters.
我还记得幼发拉底河的河水，颜色漂亮极了。
And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
第四道河就是伯拉河。
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
我在幼发拉底河里洗澡，当黎明刚刚开始。
Another, the Euphrates, was many miles away.
而另一条河即幼发拉底河，则远在很多英里之外。
There were broad rivers like the Tigress and Euphrates to be crossed.
还要横渡像底格里斯和幼发拉底般广阔的河流。
And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.
我照上主吩咐我的去了；将带子藏在幼发拉的近傍。
It was located on the Tigris and Euphrates in the South of Mesopotamia.
位于美索不达米亚的南部，底格里斯河与幼发拉底河之间。
There, in the boundless desert, grows a rare variety of tree called euphrates poplar.
在那浩瀚的沙漠中，生长着一种稀有的树种，叫胡杨。
He proposes that Rome should allow the Parthians to hold sway over the territory east of the Euphrates.
他提议罗马允许帕提亚人统治幼发拉底河东部的领土。
She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.
她进一步声称，她从月球上的一个巨大的月亮蛋下来，掉进了幼发拉底河。
Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro -electric power projects.
土耳其计划利用底格里斯河和幼发拉底河的河水开发大型水电项目。
Satellite image of drained areas (grey) amongst marshland (dark red) around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq.
伊拉克境内底格里斯河与幼发拉底河附近的枯竭区(灰色)与沼泽地(暗红色)的卫星图像。
Some of the best farmland of the Fertile Crescent is in a narrow strip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
肥沃的新月上的一些最佳的农田位于底格里斯河和幼发拉底河之间的狭长地带。
The Greek historian Herodotus noted that ancient Mesopotamians used barrels made of palm wood to transport wine along the Euphrates.
古希腊历史学家希罗多德（Herodotus）提到，古代的美索不达米亚人(Mesopotamians)就使用棕榈木制的木桶沿着幼发拉底河(Euphrates)传送酒制品。
It aimed to improve agriculture and provide water and electricity to poor south-eastern villages around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
该工程旨在改进农业生产，为底格里斯河和幼发拉底河流域贫困的东南村庄供水、供电。
I was in Turkey, wading in the Euphrates, taping a show about the Garden of Eden, when Lindaproposed that one of our girls be named Eden.
我读到在土耳其、在幼发拉底河中涉水前行、记录下了伊甸园中的事件，这时Linda提议说一个女儿的名字叫做Eden。
I was in Turkey,wading in the Euphrates, taping a show about the Garden of Eden, when Linda proposed that one of our girls be named Eden.
有次我去土耳其，穿过幼发拉底河，制作一个名为伊甸园的节目（Garden ofEden），那时琳达就提议给其中一个女孩起名为艾登（Eden）。
The effect has been to starve the Euphrates of its lifeblood, which throughout the ages has guaranteed bountiful water, even during drought.
后果是幼发拉底河的命脉濒临干旱，而千百年来，这条河保证了居民的丰富用水，甚至是在干旱时期。
And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.
第三道河名叫西底结，流在亚述的东边。第四道河就是伯拉河。
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates.
你念完了这书，就把一块石头拴在书上，扔在幼发拉底河中。
Iranian media also reported that the British boats had gotten too close to an oil jetty near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
伊朗传媒又报道英国船只与一靠近底格里斯河与幼发拉底河汇合处的石油码头接得太近。
Seen from above between 1973 and 2000 the Mesopotamia marshlands straddle the borders between Iraq and Iran near the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
从上空往下看，在1973年至2000年间，西南亚美索不达米亚地区的沼泽地跨越伊拉克与伊朗两国交界的边境地区，位于浩瀚的底格里斯河与幼发拉底河附近。
Earlier in my career, I worked in northwest China for many years. There, in the boundless desert, grows a rare variety of tree called Euphrates poplar.
我年轻时曾长期工作在中国的西北地区。在那浩瀚的沙漠中，生长着一种稀有的树种，叫胡杨。
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "to your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates."
当那日，耶和华与亚伯兰立约，说：“我已赐给你的后裔，从埃及河直到伯拉大河之地。”
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "to your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates."
当那日，耶和华与亚伯兰立约，说：“我已赐给你的后裔，从埃及河直到伯拉大河之地。”
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