| 31. | The Aswan Dam, for example stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left - all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity. |
| 以阿斯旺大坝为例，它挡住了尼罗河的洪水，但也使埃及失去了洪水冲积的肥沃土壤，换回来的却是一个病态的大水库。现在水库积满泥沙，几乎不能用于发电了。
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| 32. | The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left-all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity. |
| 例如，阿斯旺大坝使得尼罗河不再洪水泛滥，但是它也夺去了埃及以前 所享有的洪水留下的肥沃淤泥--这些换宋的就是这么个疾病滋生的水 库，现在这个水库积满了淤泥，几乎不能发电了。
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| 33. | He could barely pay for his own meal, much less for mine. |
| 他连自己的饭钱几乎都付不起，更不用说为我付钱了。
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| 34. | They barely made the train. |
| 他们差一点没赶上火车。
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| 35. | The act, I think, was barely justified by the circumstances. |
| 我认为那些情况难以证明这一行为是正当的。
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| 36. | The children barely tasted their breakfast the day they went to the circus. |
| 去看马戏的那天，孩子们几乎没有吃早饭。
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| 37. | anger that was barely suppressible |
| 难以抑制的愤怒
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| 38. | barely a week ago |
| 仅仅一周之前
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| 39. | an income just barely enough to buy the necessities of life |
| 仅仅勉强够购买生活必需品的收入
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| 40. | barely [hardly, scarcely] probable |
| 几乎不可能发生的
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