A village elder, Amin Ibrahim, invited me into his house and gave me a cheerier view of the effects of the Aswan High Dam than I had heard before.

• 村里一位长者,名叫阿明·易卜拉欣,请我到他家去做客,向我介绍了阿斯旺高坝的影响。他的话比我以前听到的更为乐观一些。