英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Nile尼罗河—12

 A colonial area treaty drawn¹ up by the British awarded Egypt the rights to 66 percent of the river's entire flow. Ethiopia, where the majority of the water in the Nile originates got none. -We are hugely remote part of the plan here, but make no mistakes, this is one of the greatest potential flush points in the world. Egypt feels the dam will allow Ethiopia to siphon off water that belongs, they think, to Egyptians. They reacted to the idea of this dam with fury, even talking of sabotage² on wall.

-It's overwhelming to come here and see them. Semany B* is an Ethiopian engineer in charge of the six-year construction project.

-This is an almost biblical effort to control and harness the power of the mighty³ Nile. -We are not controlling that mighty Nile.

-This is it, what we call!

-We can't control. We don't have any plan. We are ** implementing⁴ an strategy that fights poverty, without harming anyone.

-But countries downstream the dam, particularly Egypt, are worried about what might happen here about how using, you have the power to switch off the Nile.

-No.

-Should they be worried?

-This is an electricity project. Electricity that consumes water will not use this project for any other conservative use, only generation of electricity, and this is a known fact without affecting their...

1 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

2 sabotage   

n.怠工，破坏活动，破坏；v.从事破坏活动，妨害，破坏

参考例句：

• They tried to sabotage my birthday party.他们企图破坏我的生日晚会。
• The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.那家工厂的火灾是有人蓄意破坏引起的。

3 mighty   

adj.强有力的；巨大的

参考例句：

• A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
• The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。

4 implementing   

v.实现( implement的现在分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• -- Implementing a comprehensive drug control strategy. ――实行综合治理的禁毒战略。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
• He was in no hurry about implementing his unshakable principle. 他并不急于实行他那不可动摇的原则。 来自辞典例句