the high dam

常見(jiàn)例句

The high Dam at Aswan was completed in 1970.
阿斯旺的高垻是於1970年完工的。
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And because there was a need, before the High dam tamed the Nile, to live beyond the reach of the annual floods.
同時(shí)這也是因爲(wèi)在大垻控制住尼羅河之前，有必要住得遠(yuǎn)一點(diǎn)，以躲避每年發(fā)生的洪水。
“Before they started the High Dam 25 years ago,” he said, “the Nile mud had a lot of food in it , and so the sardines gathered near the mouth of the river to feed.
他說(shuō)“二十五年前脩建高垻之前，尼羅河的泥沙裡有很多可喫的東西，所以沙丁魚(yú)就聚集在河口找食喫。

Men who worked at night on the dam suffered less, but the heat was still as high as thirty degrees Celsius.
Today,visitors can see a statue of the men who worked as high scalers to build Hoover Dam.
Workers called "high scalers" were some of the first to begin building the dam.

The historical Nubian Temples campaign, for the protection of the Egyptian monuments in Nubia from the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam, mobilized the international community for the protection of the World Heritage.
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Or take the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, an unmitigated disaster, according to ecologists.
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The Aswan high dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon.
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