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领导地位由建造阿斯旺大坝而巩固。
The first new design was by Alexander Gorlov, a Russian civil engineer who worked on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
第一个新设计是俄罗斯的土木工程师亚历山大.佐罗夫完成的，他先在埃及的阿斯旺大坝工作，后来移居到美国。
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.
它们是由于1990年代从纳赛尔湖调水而形成的，是在尼罗河上的阿斯旺大坝后面形成的人工湖。

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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