Euphrates

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The effect has been to starve the Euphrates of its lifeblood, which throughout the ages has guaranteed bountiful water, even during drought.
后果是幼發(fā)拉底河的命脈瀕臨干旱，而千百年來，這條河保證了居民的豐富用水，甚至是在干旱時(shí)期。
Usually upstream countries dominate control of a river, like the Tigris and Euphrates, which are much reduced by the time they flow into Iraq from Turkey and Syria.
通常情況下，上游國家主宰著河流的控制權(quán)，像底格里斯河和幼發(fā)拉底河，當(dāng)從土耳其和敘利亞流入伊拉克時(shí)流量就減小了很多。
I was in Turkey,wading in the Euphrates, taping a show about the Garden of Eden, when Lindaproposed that one of our girls be named Eden. It sounded both familiar and exotic, feminineyet strong.
我曾經(jīng)在土耳其幼發(fā)拉底河涉水，當(dāng)時(shí)錄了《伊甸園》的帶子，琳達(dá)建議我們的一個(gè)女孩應(yīng)該叫做伊甸，它聽起來既熟悉有很有異域風(fēng)情，充滿女人味又不失堅(jiān)強(qiáng)。

Put away the gods that your forefathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt" put away the gods your forefathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt--"and serve Yahweh.
將你們列祖所事奉的神除掉,在大河那邊和在埃及的神“,將你們列祖所事奉的神除掉,在大河那邊和在埃及的神“，侍奉耶和華。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
What oriental? That means mainly the Tigris and Euphrates, Mesopotamia, Syria,all those older civilizations and much more advanced civilizations than the Greek.
哪個(gè)東方,這主要指底格里斯河和,幼發(fā)拉底河文明,美索不達(dá)米亞文明,以及敘利亞文明等這些舊文明,它們都比希臘先進(jìn)的多
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選
That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.
直到十九至二十世紀(jì),一些重大的考古發(fā)現(xiàn)，才讓我們了解到,遠(yuǎn)古近東的文明,我已經(jīng)在黑板上畫了一幅,栩栩如生的地圖了：,地中海，我總是從地中海講起，尼羅河，底格里斯河，還有幼發(fā)拉底河。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

In April, he accompanied several thousand soldiers as they crossed the Euphrates River into Baghdad.
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a long river in western Asia that was one of the two great rivers of the ancient region of Mesopotamia