Two generations later, his grandson abandoned this rules-based approach and used the river Tigris as a weapon against rebels in Babylon.

经过两代人之后，他的孙子废除了这种以法律为基础的方法并以底格里斯河作为抵抗巴比伦反叛者的武器。

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There was another across the River Tigris very long ago, and large number of irrigation canals were made in Iraq to irrigate the land.

很久以前，底格里斯河上就建造了一个大水坝，伊拉克还建筑了很多水渠灌溉田地。

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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.

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。

youdao

That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

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When rowing on the river Tigris, he has to continually look over his shoulder in case his boat collides with one of the many fishing vessels that also use the river.

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While the crew was filming outside a vehicle, coalition forces fired warning shots into a river, Kimmitt said, apparently referring to the Tigris River, which passes Samarra.

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The Samarra bridge has a dam that generates power and regulates water levels on the Tigris River.

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