Euphrates

These grew up in the world's great fertile river valleys, the Euphrates, the Tigris and the Indus, but I want to start with the most famous river of them all, the Nile..最早期的城市与国家崛起于世界上伟大的肥沃河谷里，幼发拉底河、底格里斯河、印度河等等，然而我想从这所有河流中最著名的尼罗河开始。

"The current level of the Euphrates cannot feed the small tributaries that give water to the marshlands, " he continued. "The people there have started to dig wells for their own survival..“目前，幼发拉底河无法养活哪些给沼泽地供水的小支流了，”他继续说：“为了自己的生存，那里的居民已经开始自己挖井了。

Droughts are not rare in Iraq, though officials say they have been more frequent in recent years. But drought is only part of what is choking the Euphrates and its larger, healthier twin, the Tigris..干旱原本在伊拉克也并不罕见 只是官员们说 这些年更加频繁了.但是干旱只是使幼发拉底河和她更广阔 更健康的胞胎底格里斯河枯萎的原因之一.