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).
权威例句
1. Here the Nile broadens out between the huge granite boulders.
尼罗河在此处变宽,从两块花岗岩巨石间穿过。
2. The Aswan Dam helps to control the River Nile in Egypt.
阿斯旺水坝有助于控制埃及的尼罗河.
3. Explorers traced the Nile River to its several headstreams in Central Africa.
探险者在中非找到了尼罗河的几处源头.
4. The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.