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.
后果是幼发拉底河的命脉濒临干旱，而千百年来，这条河保证了居民的丰富用水，甚至是在干旱时期。
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.
通常情况下，上游国家主宰着河流的控制权，像底格里斯河和幼发拉底河，当从土耳其和叙利亚流入伊拉克时流量就减小了很多。
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.
我曾经在土耳其幼发拉底河涉水，当时录了《伊甸园》的带子，琳达建议我们的一个女孩应该叫做伊甸，它听起来既熟悉有很有异域风情，充满女人味又不失坚强。

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.
将你们列祖所事奉的神除掉,在大河那边和在埃及的神“,将你们列祖所事奉的神除掉,在大河那边和在埃及的神“，侍奉耶和华。
耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选
What oriental? That means mainly the Tigris and Euphrates, Mesopotamia, Syria,all those older civilizations and much more advanced civilizations than the Greek.
哪个东方,这主要指底格里斯河和,幼发拉底河文明,美索不达米亚文明,以及叙利亚文明等这些旧文明,它们都比希腊先进的多
耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选
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.
直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。
耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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