That sounded fine to us, so we booked our four-day trip from Aswan to Luxor.

我们觉得那听起来还不错，所以订了从到卢克索四日游。

In Aswan however, a city very close to Egypt's southern border, the river is upstaged by a colossus which took 10 years to complete and used up enough building materials to have constructed 17 Great pyramids at Giza.

然而，在非常靠近埃及南部边界城市，有一座耗费10年才完工庞然大物抢夺了尼罗河光彩，它所使用建材足以在吉萨建造17座大金字塔。

This story has survived through the ages thanks to the appropriately named Famine Stela, a inscription found on Sehel Island near the city of Aswan, once the main southern frontier of Egypt.

故事被流传了下来，要归功于一命名为“饥荒石碑”碑文，它发现于市附近萨赫勒岛，曾经是埃及南部主要边境。

And if Lake Nasser's water levels decrease, it means that the Aswan High Dam won't have as much water available to run through its turbines to generate electricity.

如果纳赛尔湖水位下降，就意味着大坝将没有足够多水通过涡轮机发电。

The Cold War also affected the Middle East. In the nineteen fifties, both East and West offered aid to Egypt to build the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.

冷战也影响了中东。20世纪50年代，东西方都向埃及提供援助，在尼罗河上修建大坝。

The granite for the sculpture was quarried from Aswan and extracted in a single colossal block-the whole statue would have originally weighed about 20 tons.

雕像所使用花岗岩釆自，在尼罗河上游，距神殿超过一百五十公里。它使用了整块巨石雕琢，原石重量应超过二十吨。

The Aswan High Dam, which captures floodwater during rainy seasons and releases water during times of drought, generates about half of Egypt's power supply.

水坝在雨季时储存水量，旱季时开闸放水，产生埃及一半电量。

In the nineteen fifties, both East and West offered aid to Egypt to build the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.

20世纪50年代，东西方都帮助埃及在尼罗河上修建大坝。

You could also choose to use the train network in Egypt linking Cairo to Luxor, Aswan and Alexandria.

你也可以选择使用埃及铁路网，其将开罗与卢克索、和亚历山大连接起来。

A successful strike would destroy the dam and free up the waters to flow back up to Egypt into Lake Nassar behind their Aswan High Dam, relieving the country of its hypothetical drought-like conditions during this desperate potential scenario.

一次成功袭击将摧毁大坝，释放出水流将回流到埃及大坝后面纳赛尔湖，缓解埃及在种绝望潜在情况下可能出现干旱状况。

This head was once part of a complete statue that stood on Rome's most southerly frontier, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan, probably in the town of Syene near Aswan.

尊头像来自曾伫立在罗马国境最南端一座全身像，位于今埃及与苏丹之间，很可能就在附近沙伊尼镇。

The biggest of them all cracked while it was being carved and it was simply abandoned in its quarry in Aswan.

其中最大一在雕刻时破裂了，被遗弃在采石场。

We had to get a taxi to Aswan in southern Egypt and stay there overnight in a hotel.

我们必须打去埃及南部城市，并在那儿旅馆住一晚。

But the Aswan Dam changed everything.

但水坝改变了一切。

We left Aswan on the following morning and we sailed downstream through a fertile region.

第二天早上我们就离开了，并且顺流而下经过了一片富饶地区。

NASA hoped to use the revenue from the canal to finance the Aswan High Dam, which would end the annual flooding of the Nile and allow for infrastructure improvements that would help the Egyptian economy.

美国国家航空航天局希望利用运河收入来资助高坝，将结束尼罗河每年洪水，并允许基础设施改善，将有助于提高埃及经济。

The Aswan High Dam in southern Egypt was constructed across the Nile back in the 1960s which created behind it the huge reservoir known as Lake Nassar.

埃及南部水坝建于 20 世纪 60 年代，横跨尼罗河，在其背后形成了一巨大水库，即纳赛尔湖。

To visit that temple, tourists catch a short flight from Aswan.

要参观那座寺庙，游客可以从乘坐短途航班。

The highest indisputable date is year 9, with records from Aswan and Canaes.

最无可争议日期是第九年，有来自和卡纳伊录。

Number five Aswan Why should you visit the city of Aswan?

第五名 为什么您应该参观市？