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).
双语例句
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。
来自柯林斯例句
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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.
