Yellow River will remain yellow, expert

时间：2006-10-30 07:59:29

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Chinanews, Zhengzhou, Oct. 30 - For thousands of years, Chinese people have hoped that the water of the Yellow River will become clear one day. Since the foundation of New China, Chinese government has devoted1 great efforts to trying to remove the sediments2 in the Yellow River. However, after years of hard work, it is realized that the Yellow River will not, and need not, change into clear water.

 

Wang Huayun, a late expert on the Yellow River director of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee, once summarized the lessons of harnessing the Yellow River over the previous 40 years as follows: “Since ancient times, people have hoped that the Yellow River can become clear. However, we now learn that the Yellow River can not turn clear and it needn’t become clear, either.”

 

Experts from the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee point out that the Yellow River has always been yellow in history. The Huabei Plain (North Plain) was a river flat filled up with the sands and sediments carried by the Yellow River. Even today, it is still creating land. The Yellow River delta3 at the estuary4 is the most recent land formed on earth.

 

Meanwhile, the sands and sediments in the Yellow River are full of rich mineral substances such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which fertilize5 millions of mu of farmland by the river. If the sediments of the Yellow River are removed, the farmland will not be as productive as it is today.

 
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1 devoted xu9zka     
adj.忠诚的，忠实的，热心的，献身于...的
参考例句：
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
2 sediments 8b3acb612b624abdf2c2881bc6928565     
沉淀物( sediment的名词复数 )； 沉积物
参考例句：
  • When deposited, 70-80% of the volume of muddy sediments may be water. 泥质沉积物沉积后，体积的70-80％是水。
  • Oligocene erosion had truncated the sediments draped over the dome. 覆盖于穹丘上的沉积岩为渐新世侵蚀所截削。
3 delta gxvxZ     
n.（流的）角洲
参考例句：
  • He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
  • The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔，形成了一个三角洲。
4 estuary ynuxs     
n.河口，江口
参考例句：
  • We live near the Thames estuary.我们的住处靠近泰晤士河入海口。
  • The ship has touched bottom.The estuary must be shallower than we thought.船搁浅了。这河口的水比我们想像的要浅。
5 fertilize hk5x8     
v.使受精，施肥于，使肥沃
参考例句：
  • Fertilizer is a substance put on land to fertilize it.肥料是施在地里使之肥沃的物质。
  • Reading will fertilize his vocabulary.阅读会丰富他的词汇。

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