But the Aswan Dam changed everything.

但旺水坝改变了一切。

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，所以订了从旺到卢克索的四日游。

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

二天早上我们就离开了旺，并且顺流而下经过了一片富饶的地区。

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

我们必须打的去埃及部的城市旺，并在那儿的旅馆住一晚。

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

名 旺 为么您应该参旺市？

These days, Aswan is most famous for its massive dam.

如今，旺以其巨大的水坝而闻名。

It is time that the world learned the lessons of Aswan.

现在是世界吸取旺教训的时候了。

Aswan Dam has stopped the floods.

旺大坝阻止了洪水。

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

要参那座寺庙，游客可以从旺乘坐短途航班。

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

其中最大的一个在雕刻时破裂了，被遗弃在旺的采石场。

Egypt's leadership in the Arab world was cemented by the Aswan High Dam.

旺高坝巩固了埃及在拉伯世界的领导地位。

We start in Alexandria, fly to Luxor, cruise up the Nile to Aswan, and finish in Abu Simbel.

我们从亚历山大港出发，飞往卢克索，沿尼罗河航行至旺，最后抵达布辛贝。

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旺大坝。

Reports from the city of Aswan say gunfights broke out close to the hospital and the morgue near 2 tourist hotels and the market.

来自旺的报道称枪战发生在医院附近和两座旅游酒店附近的陈尸间和市场里。

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.

旺水坝在雨季时储存水量，旱季时开闸放水，产生埃及一半的电量。

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.

雕像所使用的花岗岩釆自旺，在尼罗河上游，距神殿超过一百十公里。它使用了整块巨石雕琢，原石重量应超过二十吨。

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

埃及部的旺水坝建于 20 世纪 60 年代，横跨尼罗河，在其背后形成了一个巨大的水库，即纳赛尔湖。

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.

如果纳赛尔湖的水位下降，就意味着旺大坝将没有足够多的水通过涡轮机发电。

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，在尼罗河上修建旺大坝。

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.

这个故事被流传了下来，这要归功于一个命名为“饥荒石碑”的碑文，它发现于旺市附近的萨赫勒岛，曾经是埃及部的主要边境。