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But there have been negative effects also. 但是也有不良的后果。Egyptian agriculture has been transformed, and industry is benefiting from power generated by the dam. 埃及的农业得到了改造，工业也用上了水坝发出的电力The devastating floods and droughts that imposed a recurrent tax of suffering on the fellahin no longer occur. 过去给农民带来灾难的水旱灾害，现在不再发生了。It is the greatest public work to be undertaken in Egypt since the Pyramids. 这是埃及自从修建金字塔以来进行的一项最大的公共工程。In 1971 engineers and workers completed the Aswan High Dam, nearly 600 miles upriver from Cairo toward the Sudanese frontier. 1971年，技术人员和工人建成了阿斯旺高坝，这座水坝在从开罗沿尼罗河向苏丹边境走去将近六百英里远的地方。All this suggested ancient harmonies. 这一切让人感到古代的和谐气氛。他们干了一天活儿，袍子和头巾上又是汗，又是土。这时候，他们坐在路旁一家商店门口，享受尼罗河沿岸人们生活里的三件最大的乐事——喝茶、聊天、抽水烟。Their galabias and turbans stained by the sweat and dirt of a long day’s work, they sat in front of a wayside shop, enjoying three of the best things in life along the Nile-tea, conversation, and the water pipe. In the gathering dusk Ahmed and his five companions had invited me to join them. 天色渐渐暗了下来，阿赫迈德和五个一起干活的人早就约我去和他们玩儿。“Truly Allah has blessed us,” Ahmed exclaimed piously. “Soil, water, sun--we can grow anything!” “真主可真是保佑我们哪，”阿赫迈德虔诚地说道。“我们有土地，有水，有阳光——种什么都行啊！”The rest of Egypt is desert. 埃及其余的地方全是沙漠。Here nearly 48 million people live in an area only slightly larger than Maryland. 将近四千八百万人生活的这块地方只比美国马里兰州略大一点。“This is the best place on earth,” said Ahmed, an Egyptian fellah, or farmer, I encountered in the Nile Delta, that incredibly fertile 8,500-square-mile triangle between Cairo and the Mediterranean coast. And as rain fell in the Ethiopian highlands and the snows melted in the Mountains of the Moon, the river was everlastingly renewed. 埃塞俄比亚高原上的雨水，和月亮山上融化的积雪，为尼罗河提供了无穷无尽的水源。Egypt’s very soil was born in the Nile’s annual flood；with the flood came the life-giving mud that made Egypt the granary of the ancient world. 就连埃及的土地也是尼罗河每年泛滥而带来的。河水泛滥带来了泥沙，万物得以生长，埃及就这样成了古代世界的粮仓。No other country is so dependent on a single lifeline. 任何别的国家都没有这样依赖着唯一的一条生命线Egypt, wrot