Boys playing with a cycle cart in hasankeyf , turkey , a small poverty-stricken town on the banks of the tigris , on april 10 .
4月10日,在底格里斯河岸边的一个贫穷的土耳其小镇哈桑凯伊夫,男孩们用一台三轮车自娱自乐。
The ancient greeks called it mesopotamia , the land between two rivers - tigris and euphrates .
古希腊人称底格里斯河与幼发拉底河之间的这篇陆地为美索不达米亚。
After one of the bridges over the tigris was bombed during the 1991 air campaign of the gulf war , for example , saddam vowed that the bridge would be operational within one month .
She nonetheless financed antony 's military expedition to the restive area east of the tigris , a multiethnic , multicultural region of shifting alliances , one that had resisted 30 years of roman efforts at organization .
People eat juicy prawns in restaurants in the evening , sometimes sitting out past midnight on the balmy banks of the shatt al-arab ; it is still unthinkable in baghdad to relax on the edge of the tigris .
Turkey 's south-eastern anatolia project , intended to double the country 's irrigated farmland , involves the building of a series of dams on the tigris and euphrates rivers ; one of them , the ataturk dam , finished in 1990 , ranks among the biggest in the world .
I was jogging along the trail on the banks of the tigris , heading south .
我沿着底格里斯河旁的一条小径向南慢跑。
It aimed to improve agriculture and provide water and electricity to poor south-eastern villages around the tigris and euphrates rivers .
该工程旨在改进农业生产,为底格里斯河和幼发拉底河流域贫困的东南村庄供水、供电。
Not long ago corpses regularly floated down the tigris , but today the rowers enjoy the waters as they train for the upcoming london 2012 olympics games .
North of anl urfa the ground ripples into the first foothills of the mountains that run across southern turkey , source of the famous tigris and euphrates rivers .