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.

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。

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Three rains had passed , and it was that lean season when the village's store of grain and other dried foods from the last harvest was almost gone.

村子里上一季收成之后储藏的粮食和其它干果杂品差不多已食用一空。

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John Ridley,a grain farmer in New South Wales, says his crop could fail if the rains do not come soon.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The country's usual grain output is 1.8m tons, but poor rains and lousy politics have meant that this year's production has slumped to a mere 480, 000 tons.

ECONOMIST: Southern Africa's food shortage