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· 英译中

原文：

Egypt, wrote the Greek historian Hecataeus, is the gift of the Nile. No other country is so dependent on a single lifeline. 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. And as rain fell in the Ethiopian highlands and the snows melted in the Mountains of the Moon, the river was everlastingly renewed.

译文：

希腊历史学家赫卡泰奥斯（Hecataeus）曾写道：埃及是尼罗河的礼物。没有国家像埃及一样，如此依赖着唯一的一条生命线。就连埃及的土地也是在尼罗河每年的洪水中形成的：随着洪水而来的泥沙，使万物得以生长，使埃及成为古代世界的粮仓。埃塞俄比亚高原的降雨和月亮山融化的积雪，为尼罗河带来了无尽的水源。