Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland, on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood.
尼罗河在一年的大部分时间里平静而祥和，过去每年都会泛滥，从而创造，灌溉并把新的表土运到附近的农田，古埃及赖以生存。
The Hyksos invaded the Nile Delta of Egypt and ruled it from 1650 B.C.
希克索斯人从公元前1650年开始入侵埃及的尼罗河三角洲并统治它。
5,000 years ago, Egypt really began to flourish out in the Nile River valley.
五千年前，埃及在尼罗河谷真正开始繁荣。
Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood.
尼罗河虽然在一年的大部分时间里平静而祥和，但是过去每年都会泛滥，从而生成、灌溉并把新的表层土搬运到附近的古埃及人赖以为生的农田。
In April, negotiations between the nine Nile countries broke down after Egypt and Sudan refused to give ground.
4月，埃及和苏丹拒绝作出让步，九个尼罗河国家的协商随之破裂。
The Nile River carves a fertile scar through this arid part of Egypt, providing a lifeline in an otherwise barren region.
尼罗河在埃及这一干旱地带形成了一个肥沃的漫滩，为原本贫瘠的地区提供了一条生命线。
The threat of losing the Nile water has animated Egypt.
失去尼罗河水的威胁让埃及坐立不安。
Since rainfall in Egypt is negligible to nonexistent, its agriculture is totally dependent on the Nile.
因为埃及几乎没有降雨，所以它的农业完全依赖于尼罗河。
Oil prices rose, boosting export income despite the fall in volumes; and Egypt began to discover and tap big reserves of natural gas, particularly offshore, north of the Nile delta.
油价上涨，尽管出口量减少了，但收入仍旧增加了；而且埃及渐渐发现并开始开采大量藏储的天然气，特别是在尼罗河三角洲北面的近海地区。
In Egypt, however, decades of bellicose rhetoric about the Nile have made the river's water an explosive issue.
然而，在埃及，几十年来关于尼罗河的咄咄逼人的虚辞假语致使河水资源成为引起爆炸性反应的问题。
The threat of losing Nile water has animated Egypt, which until recently had virtually ignored the upstream countries.
失去尼罗河水资源的威胁已经让埃及坐立不安，可它直到最近才开始重视上游国家。
While Egypt's arable land constitutes only 3 percent of the country, a ribbon of land along the Nile is lush with crops. Egypt is the world's leading producer of long-staple cotton.
虽然埃及耕地只占到该国领土的3%，但尼罗河沿岸地区还是庄稼茂盛，而且埃及还是世界上长绒棉的主要出口国。
I would fly to Egypt to see the pyramids and the Nile River.
我要飞到埃及去看金字塔和尼罗河。
They come from a time when Egypt was populated only by small farming communities living along the Nile Valley.
它们所处的那个年代，古埃及人类们还只是形成规模不大的农耕小村落，零星地散布在尼河罗谷上。
Most people think of Cairoand the Great Pyramids when they think of ancient Egypt, but the heartbeatof the magical pharaonicdynasties actually beat much further up the Nile at Thebes.
大部分人提到古埃及时就会想起开罗和金字塔，但在古埃及更为有名的还数都城底比斯。
Unfortunately for Egypt, two of the favorite targets for land acquisitions are Ethiopia and Sudan, which together occupy three-fourths of the Nile River Basin.
但是埃及很不走运，因为两个最受注目的征地目标正是埃塞俄比亚和苏丹，这两个国家加在一起共占据了尼罗河流域的四分之三范围。
Egypt depends almost exclusively on the Nile River for its water supply.
埃及的供水几乎完全依赖尼罗河。
The Nile, which is the longest river in Egypt, no longer destroys crops.
尼罗河是埃及的最长的河流，它再也不摧毁庄稼了。
37a section of Lake Nasser in Egypt, a massive reservoir behind the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River, seen from the International Space Station in January of 2010.
2010年1月份，国际空间站上拍摄到的埃及纳赛尔湖，这座尼罗河阿斯旺大坝上的大型水库。
Ethiopia and Egypt are again rowing over how to share the Nile waters.
埃塞俄比亚(ethiopia)和埃及(egypt)在如何分享尼罗河水源方面再次并驾齐驱。
The Nile River flowing through Egypt past the pyramids of Giza up to Cairo in the delta;
尼罗河穿过埃及，流经吉萨金字塔到达开罗三角洲；
In the Nile basin itself, you're looking at 1,660bcm of annual rainfall. And then from all this, you have Egypt taking 55.5bcm a year from the Nile, our only source of fresh water.
尼罗河盆地每年的降水量是1万6千6百亿方，埃及每年从尼罗河抽取555亿方，这是我们唯一的淡水源。
NileGuide – not specifically about Egypt, or the River Nile. Great content site.
NileGuide——这个网站并不是专注于埃及或尼罗河旅游，而是一个很好的旅游内容网站。
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。
Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt follow the Nile well into Sudan.
古埃及的坟墓和寺庙跟着尼罗河一直深入到苏丹。
Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt follow the Nile well into Sudan.
古埃及的坟墓和寺庙跟着尼罗河一直深入到苏丹。
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