Tigris and Euphrates的意思|示意

Usually upstream countries dominate control of a river, like the Tigris and Euphrates, which are much reduced by the time they flow into Iraq from Turkey and Syria.

通常情况下，上游国家主宰着河流的控制权，像底格里斯河和幼发拉底河，当从土耳其和叙利亚流入伊拉克时流量就减小了很多。

The earliest of the city states of the ancient Near East appeared at the southern end of the Mesopotamian plain, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq.

古代近东地区最早的城邦出现在美索不达米亚平原的南端，该地区位于底格里斯河和幼发拉底河之间，也就是现在的伊拉克境内。

Seen from above between 1973 and 2000 the Mesopotamia marshlands straddle the borders between Iraq and Iran near the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

从上空往下看，在1973年至2000年间，西南亚美索不达米亚地区的沼泽地跨越伊拉克与伊朗两国交界的边境地区，位于浩瀚的底格里斯河与幼发拉底河附近。

Iranian media also reported that the British boats had gotten too close to an oil jetty near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

伊朗传媒又报道英国船只与一靠近底格里斯河与幼发拉底河汇合处的石油码头接得太近。

It was located on the Tigris and Euphrates in the South of Mesopotamia.

位于美索不达米亚的南部，底格里斯河与幼发拉底河之间。

In fact, one has to go back 4,500 years to find the single historical example of a true "water war" - a dispute between the city-states of Lagash and Umma on the Tigris-Euphrates.

事实上，如果要找史例的话，必须追溯到4 500年前才能找到真正“为水而战”的唯一例子，即底格里斯河-幼发拉底河流域的拉加什和乌姆马这两个城邦国之间的争端。