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。
Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
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。
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.
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。
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.
古代近东地区最早的城邦出现在美索不达米亚平原的南端,该地区位于底格里斯河和幼发拉底河之间,也就是现在的伊拉克境内。
The earliest of the city states of the ancient Near East appeared at the southern end of the Mesopotamian plain, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq.
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。
His father belonged to the Lakhmid clan of seminomads who lived east of the Euphrates.
“目前,幼发拉底河无法养活哪些给沼泽地供水的小支流了,”他继续说:“为了自己的生存,那里的居民已经开始自己挖井了。”
"The current level of the Euphrates cannot feed the small tributaries that give water to the marshlands," he continued. "the people there have started to dig Wells for their own survival."
最近水务部门宣布土耳其已将注入幼发拉底河的水量增加一倍以抢救一些地区处在水稻生产期的作物。
Recently, the water Ministry announced that Turkey had doubled the water flow into the Euphrates, salvaging the planting phase of the rice season in some areas.
我曾经在土耳其幼发拉底河涉水,当时录了《伊甸园》的带子,琳达建议我们的一个女孩应该叫做伊甸,它听起来既熟悉有很有异域风情,充满女人味又不失坚强。
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. It sounded both familiar and exotic, feminineyet strong.
在幼发拉底河与底格里斯河径分为向南入血脉搏动流入阿拉伯海的蜿蜒河网处,泛滥平原地貌绵延了数千平方公里。
It sprawled across thousands of square kilometres of floodplain where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers divided into a network of tributaries meandering and pulsating south to the Arabian sea.
通常情况下,上游国家主宰着河流的控制权,像底格里斯河和幼发拉底河,当从土耳其和叙利亚流入伊拉克时流量就减小了很多。
Usually upstream countries dominate control of a river, like the Tigris and Euphrates, which are much reduced by the time they flow into Iraq from Turkey and Syria.
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。
The effect has been to starve the Euphrates of its lifeblood, which throughout the ages has guaranteed bountiful water, even during drought.
我就往幼发拉底河去,将腰带从我所藏的地方刨出来,见腰带已经变坏,毫无用了。
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
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。
Satellite image of drained areas (grey) amongst marshland (dark red) around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq.
我还记得幼发拉底河的河水,颜色漂亮极了。
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。
Seen from above between 1973 and 2000 the Mesopotamia marshlands straddle the borders between Iraq and Iran near the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
在过去5年的混乱时期,土耳其、叙利亚和伊朗建设了许多新的水坝和水库,这些水坝和水库分享了幼发拉底河和它的支流。
During the last five chaotic years, many new DAMS and reservoirs have been built in Turkey, Syria and Iran, which share the Euphrates and its small tributaries.
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)。
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.
东部也有很多高山风景,同时也是很多河流的源头,比如幼发拉底河、底格里斯河和亚力河araks,这里也有Van湖和阿勒山—土耳其的最高点5166米。
To the east is found a more mountainous landscape, home to the sources of rivers such as the Euphrates, Tigris and the Araks, as well as Lake Van and mount Ararat, Turkey "s highest point at 5,166m."
现在已知的最古老的被人们认可的地图是于大约公元前3800年绘制的。 地图描绘的是流经伊拉克美索不达米亚北部的幼发拉底河。
The oldest known map in the accepted sense of the word was drawn about 3, 800 BC, and represents the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.
现在已知的被公认为世上最古老的地图绘制于公元前3800年,这幅地图描绘的是流经伊拉克北部的美索不达米亚平原的幼发拉底河。
The oldest known map in the accepted sense of the word was drawn about 3,800 BC, and represents the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.
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。
The Greek historian Herodotus noted that ancient Mesopotamians used barrels made of palm wood to transport wine along the Euphrates.
土耳其试图在底、幼二河上修建20座水坝的雄心壮志可说是引发地区紧张的一个持续性来源。当它在1990年暂时截断幼发拉底河时,叙、伊两国不禁暴跳如雷,险些兵戎相见。
Turkey's effort to build up to 22 DAMS on the two rivers is a constant source of tension, and tempers flared in 1990 when Turkey briefly interrupted the Euphrates.
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。
She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.
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。
Some of the best farmland of the Fertile Crescent is in a narrow strip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
位于美索不达米亚的南部,底格里斯河与幼发拉底河之间。
It was located on the Tigris and Euphrates in the South of Mesopotamia.
世界上的四大发明均起源于河流,尼罗河、幼发拉底河和恒河,当然还有黄河。
All four of the great old world civilizations began on rivers-the Nile, the Euphrates, the Indus and the Yellow river.
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。
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.
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。
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。
Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro -electric power projects.
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