Aswan Dam

基本解釋

The old Aswan dam was a barrage.
老的阿斯旺垻是一個(gè)攔河牐。
The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived
例如，阿斯旺大垻使得尼羅河不再洪水泛濫，但是它也奪去了埃及以前
So would the World Bank today lend money for an Aswan dam if it did not already exist?
因此，如果今日的阿斯旺大垻沒有存在，世界銀行會(huì)爲(wèi)建設(shè)這樣一座大垻提供貸款嗎？

So would the World Bank today lend money for an Aswan dam if it did not already exist?
ECONOMIST: Small projects often give better returns
Egypt, for instance, seems to be stuck with the catastrophic Aswan dam, which is holding back the Nile's silt.
ECONOMIST: Water
For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nil, till the construction of the Aswan dam threatened to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river.
UNESCO: Culture