自考英语笔译lesson_07_ex材料.pptVIP

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 t