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The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left-all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.
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参考译文] 例如,阿斯旺大坝使得尼罗河不再洪水泛滥,但是它也夺去了埃及以前 所享有的洪水留下的肥沃淤泥——这些换宋的就是这么个疾病滋生的水库,现在这个水库积满了淤泥,几乎不能发电了。 |
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The Athenians at the time believed it was the work of saboteurs, either from Syracuse or the anti-war faction within Athens itself.
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雅典人这时候相信这是从事破坏活动者的杰作,也许是来自锡拉库扎,也许是来自雅典自己内部的反战派别。 |
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The Atkins diet restricts carbohydrate intake.
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阿金博士饮食法限制碳水化合物的吸收。 |
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The Atlanta Olympics were the first to make profits out of the Games.
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亚特兰大奥运会是第一届赢利的奥运会。 |
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The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a rare strain of tuberculosis is said to be doing well at a Denver hospital.
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因为带有罕有的结核病菌而被隔离的亚特兰大律师在丹佛医院接受治疗状况良好。 |
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The Atlantean Pyramid would create tales of the fall of this great civilization as warning to those who would walk the earth at the time of this reading.
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亚特兰提斯岛会创造这伟大文明崩溃的故事情节用于警告在正读到这个时候行走地球的那些人。 |
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The Atlanteans, known as Asvinsin the Indian writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of a more war-like temperament.
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亚特兰蒂斯人,在印度著作来说是“阿维斯”,显然地拥有比印度人更加先进的技术,当然有更加好战的气质。 |
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The Atlantic Ocean is half as big as the Pacific Ocean.
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大西洋只有太平洋的一半大。 |
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The Atlantic Ocean is half as large as the Pacific Ocean.
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大西洋只有太平洋的一半大。 |
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The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New.
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大西洋是把旧世界与新大陆分隔开来的大洋之一。 |
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The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific Ocean.
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大西洋只有太平洋的一半大. |