自考英语笔译lesson_07_ex研讨.ppt

原文：Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt follow the Nile well into Sudan. ;原文：Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt follow the Nile well into Sudan. ;原文：Driving southward from Cairo into the valley, I entered a landscape that owed little to the present era. ;For the next 1,800 miles the thin blue ribbon of the Nile, flowing slowly north, unwound over brown soil and green fields, some only a few yards wide, others as broad as an Iowa cornfield. ;At the edge of the fields, rising in dramatic hills or stretching flat to the horizon, lay the brown barren deserts. ;I had the illusion that I was driving through one immensely long, narrow farm. The villages and towns were usually perched on the edge, so as not to waste arable soil and because there was a need, before the High Dam tamed the Nile, to live beyond the reach of the annual floods. ;原文：The road followed the course of the Nile, now passing through the fields, now drawing a black line separating them from the desert. ;At El Awamia, just south of Luxor, I watched farmers harvest sugarcane. A village elder, Amin Ibrahim, invited me into his house and gave me a cheerier view of the effects of the Aswan High Dam than I had heard before. ;“Before the dam we were obsessed with the flood --- would it be too high or too low?” said Amin. “Like all the generations of my family back to the pharaohs, I used to plant my crops and never know if I would harvest. ;Now there is no fear; we know there will be water, and how much there will be. And we can get three crops a year instead of one. There is electricity in our houses and to run pumps, so we do not have to work the shaduf. ;We used to go to the house of a rich man to hear the radio. Now, since we grow crops all year, we buy our own radios and even televisions.” ;Judiciously, Amin conceded that there was another, less happy, side to the story: “The land is poorer, because the mud that used to come with the Nile flood has stopped. We must use fertilizers that cost a lot of money. E