one of the world's oldest surviving place names, from a Semitic root nahal "river." Unnamed in Old Testament, it is always merely "the river" (Hebrew yeor).
雙語例句
1. Here the Nile broadens out between the huge granite boulders.
尼羅河在此處變寬，從兩塊花崗巖巨石間穿過。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The Aswan Dam helps to control the River Nile in Egypt.
阿斯旺水壩有助于控制埃及的尼羅河.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Explorers traced the Nile River to its several headstreams in Central Africa.
探險者在中非找到了尼羅河的幾處源頭.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.