When the Ganges floods, it causes considerable damage.

恒河泛滥时造成严重损害。

Hindus purify themselves by bathing in the river Ganges.

印度教徒在恒河中浸泡借以涤罪。

Thou by the Indian Ganges side.

你会在印度的恒河之畔。

Not even the devout deny the plight of the Ganges now.

甚至是最虔诚的教徒都不否认恒河现在的困境。

The underground sediment of the Ganges Delta contains arsenic.

恒河三角洲的地下沉积物中含有砷。

"See TIME's photo-essay" Holy Water: Controversy on the Ganges.

照片见时代周刊“圣水：恒河上的辩论。”

The Ganges rises on the Indian side of the plateau's Himalayan rim.

而恒河起源于高原喜马拉雅山脉印度地区附近。

Upstream there are stretches where the Ganges has disappeared completely.

上游有恒河完全消失的延伸处。

The bank of the Ganges welcomed me into its lap like a friend of a former birth.

恒河河岸就像我前生前世的老友一样拥我入怀。

The Ganges River forms an extensive delta where it empties into the Bay of Bengal.

恒河三角洲形成了一个广泛的海湾，从那里倾泻如孟加拉湾。

Another time I had accompanied my father on a trip on the Ganges in his houseboat.

还有一次，我坐父亲的住船陪他到恒河上旅行。

But we can see the haze from fires and so forth in the Ganges valley down below in India.

但我们可以看到来从火灾的薄雾，印度的恒河流域等等。

Yesterday he was telling me in what great reverence people of this locality hold the sacred river Ganges.

昨天他告诉我当地人是怎样尊敬神圣的恒河的。

The Hindu belief that the Ganges always remains pure, that it can heal itself, has some basis in science.

印度人相信恒河总会保持纯净，它可以治愈它自己是有科学依据的。

Himalayan glaciers also feed into major Asian river systems including the Ganges, Indus, Mekong and Yangtze.

喜马拉雅山脉冰川也是亚洲主要河流的发源地，包括恒河、印度河、湄公河和长江。

The East of the country is extremely fertile, the Ganges river delta being the most fertile region on earth.

印度东部极其富饶，恒河三角洲是世界上最富饶的地区。

It is 5am. We are on board a large rowing boat, drifting through the mist on the Ganges as the sun slowly rises.

清晨5点，我们上了一条在恒河上飘游的大划船，河上有轻雾，太阳正在慢慢升起。

Set in the low-lying Ganges–Brahmaputra River Delta, Bangladesh sits in a perfect storm of climactic conditions.

处在低洼的恒河—雅鲁藏布江三角洲地区，孟加拉国坐落在具有形成完美风暴的条件下。

During the 19th century, cholera spread across the world from its original reservoir in the Ganges delta in India.

在19世纪，霍乱在世界各地的蔓延源自印度恒河三角洲的最初宿主。

Nutrients from the two great rivers of Ganges and Brahmaputra feed the soil of the paddies in the low-lying Ganges Delta.

来自两条大河，恒河和雅鲁藏布江的养分滋润着地势低洼的恒河三角洲的稻谷。

Affected rivers include the Ganges in India, the Niger in west Africa, and the Colorado in the southwestern United States.

受到影响的河流包括印度的恒河、西非的尼日尔河以及美国西南部的科罗拉多河等等。

By the time the Ganges reaches Varanasi, India's holiest city, the river has been somewhat restored by several tributaries.

当恒河流经印度最神圣的城市瓦拉纳西的时候，河水或多或少的被一些支流修复了。

These competing demands are lowering water levels all along the Ganges, a crisis most apparent in the sacred city of Varanasi.

这些竞争的需求降低了恒河全流域的水位，一场危机很明显的在圣城瓦拉纳西(Varanasi)展开了。

3india's holiest river, the Ganges, is scribbled with light from floating oil lamps during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Haridwar.

印度最神圣的河流，恒河。十胜节的哈里瓦，漂流在恒河中的油灯留下斑驳的光迹。

Acknowledging that the Ganges is polluted means believing that it can be polluted, an idea many devout Hindus once refused to accept.

承认恒河被污染意味着相信它能够被污染，这个想法曾被很多虔诚的印度教徒拒绝接受。

Water levels in the Ganges, Indus, Narmada, Sabarmati, Godavari and other rivers of the Kutch were this week at dangerously low levels.

本周，恒河、印度河、纳尔默达河、沙巴马蒂河、哥达瓦里河以及喀奇地区其它河流的水平面达到了危险的低水位。

Up to 500,000 lost their lives, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta.

在这场灾难中有50万丧生。丧生的原因主要是由于风暴潮淹没了大多数恒河三角洲低洼的岛屿。