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.

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。

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Egypt, wrote the Greek historian Hecataeus, is the gift of the Nile.

希腊历史学家赫卡泰俄斯把埃及描绘成尼罗河的礼物。

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