Aswan High Dam

基本解释

Egypt´s leadership in the Arab world was cemented by the Aswan High Dam.
埃及在阿拉伯世界的領導地位由建造阿斯旺大垻而鞏固。
The first new design was by Alexander Gorlov, a Russian civil engineer who worked on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
第一個新設計是俄羅斯的土木工程師亞歷山大.佐羅夫完成的，他先在埃及的阿斯旺大垻工作，後來移居到美國。
They were formed in the 1990s by diverting water from Lake Nasser, an artificial lake formed behind the Aswan High Dam on the river Nile.
它們是由於1990年代從納賽爾湖調水而形成的，是在尼羅河上的阿斯旺大垻後麪形成的人工湖。

Or take the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, an unmitigated disaster, according to ecologists.
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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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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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