造成这一明显(与现代地理命名习惯相反的)上下倒置地命名的原因是，古埃及人认为尼罗河是“上天的恩赐”并因此使得所有事物的衡量标准都与尼罗河有关。

The reason for this apparent upside-down naming is that Egypt was considered the "Gift of the Nile" and as such everything was measured in relation to it.

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According to this view, man is not merely the measure of all things as the Greek Sophist Protagoras had radically proclaimed in the fifth century.

根据这种观点,人不仅仅是衡量一切事物的标准,这是古希腊诡辩学家普罗塔哥拉,在公元五世纪提出的

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