The Ganges , according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence owing to brahma’s agency, it descends to the earth

按照《罗摩衍那圣传》上记载，恒河发源于天上，多亏卜拉马的努力，这条河才从天上流到人间。

Brahmaputra:a river of southern asia rising in the Himalaya Mountains of southwest Tibet and flowing about 2,896 km (1,800 mi)east then south and west through northeast India to join the Ganges River and form a vast delta in central Bangladesh.

布拉马普特拉河:南亚河流,发源于西藏西南部的喜马拉雅山,流程约2,896公里(1,800英里),先向东后向南和西流经印度东北部汇入恒河,在孟加拉中部形成一个大三角洲。

Many Hindus believe that they must visit Varanasi and bathe in the Ganges at least once in their lifetimes.

很多印度教徒相信一生最少要去瓦拉纳西一次，在恒河中沐浴。

The Ganges River was in the throes of one of the worst floods it had ever known.

恒河遭受到一次空前大泛滥的苦难。

The Ganges in front of the garden seemed to him to be flowing ceaselessly to regions unknown, as thought it gave shape to his own wild fantasies

花园前恒河的滔滔流水，在他看来也似乎在不舍昼夜地滚滚流去，流到谁也不知道的地方，宛如在体现他自己无边无际的梦想。

An Important Missionary Mission on the Modern Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges-On the Establishing and Its Influences on China of the Uitra-Ganges Mission

近代中西文化交流中的一个海外传教组织-关于恒河外方传教团的创建及其对华影响的考察

14 Ganges Rd Khandallah (opp town hall)

肯德拉恒河路14号(市镇厅对面)

Mauryan empire (c. 321-c. 185 BC)In ancient India, a state centred at Pataliputra (later Patna)near the junction of the Son and Ganges (Ganga)rivers.

孔雀帝国,古印度以松河和恒河汇合处的华氏城(后来的巴特那)为中心的国家。

When the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil

流经这里的恒河似乎随时可能把这块多余的地方冲回到河床底下去。

On the Distinction between Creative Prose and Reportage Writing: A Comparison between Yu Qiuyu’s “I Refuse to Call it Beautiful” and William Dalrymple’s “The Origin of the River Ganges ……”

论散文创作和报导写作的区隔-比较余秋雨<我拒绝说它美丽>与William Dalrymple<恒河之源-湿婆发、圣河源>

Mauritius even boasts one of hinduism’s great holy sites. High in the mountains in the island’s wild southern interior is Grand Bassin, a glassy pool said to be water from the Ganges , which draws a steady procession of pilgrims

毛里求斯甚至拥有一个很大的印度教圣地，在该岛南部荒凉的内陆高山上有一个叫“大盆地”的地方，那里有一潭清澈的池水，据说来自恒河。它吸引着朝圣者纷至沓来。

Now, fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the ganges , and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days

如今在恒河与印度河上，有快速轮船航行。又有一条大铁路横贯整个印度，并且沿途还有支线。只用三天，就可从孟买到达加尔各答。

They were the terror of the ganges delta

他们已成为恒河三角洲的令人胆寒的力量。

Kiouni, resuming his rapid gait, soon descended the lower spurs of the Vindhias, and towards noon they passed by the age of Kallenger, on the Cani, one of the branches of the ganges

他们走下了文迪亚群山最后的几段斜坡路，大象又快步奔跑起来。晌午时分，向导绕过了位于恒河支流卡尼河畔的卡兰吉尔。

Millions of people also go to the Ganges River. They believe that if they go into the water, it will protect them from evil and bad luck.

许多人会来到恒河。他们相信如果自己浸到水里，就会免遭邪恶和坏运气的侵袭。

A historical region of India considered at various times to include only the upper Ganges River plateau or all of northern India from the Himalaya Mountains to the Deccan Plateau and from the Punjab to Assam.The term has also been applied to the entire Indian subcontinent.

印度斯坦印度历史上的区域，在不同时期有不同内涵，有时只包括恒河高原的上部或包括从喜马拉雅山脉到德干高原，及从旁遮普到阿撒姆的整个印度北部，这个词也被用来表示整个印度次大陆

Several rivers are tributary to the ganges

有好几条河都是恒河的支流。

||1:But most practices are shaped by religious beliefs and a faith in the afterlife.||2:The Chinese keep shrines to the dead in their homes, and burn paper offerings to encourage the spirits to bestow good fortune on the living.||3:Communities from Chile to Egypt to Sicily have mummified their dead to preserve the body for the afterlife.||4:Ms Murray visits some particularly ghoulish mummies, dressed but withered, in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo.||5:For Hindus, though, the body is just a vehicle for the soul.||6:In India the dying make pilgrimages to sacred sites, such as Varanasi, to be cremated and released into the River Ganges , India’s holiest waterway.||7:This is so the dead can achieve moksha—breaking the cycle of birth, death and rebirth to gain enlightenment.||8:The cremation ghats in Varanasi burn day and night.

||1:但是大多数风俗习惯深受宗教信仰和来世之说的影响。||2:中国将神龛保存在逝者的家中，而且烧纸糊的祭品，祈求逝者的灵魂可以保佑生者。||3:像智利、埃及，还有西西里（意大利），那里的人们都会将死者做成木乃伊，为来世保存好躯体。||4:Murray女士在巴勒莫（意大利）嘉布遣会修士陵墓里参观过一些特别恐怖的木乃伊。||5:他们穿戴整齐，但是干瘪枯槁。||6:对于印度人来说，躯体只是灵魂的载体。在印度，死亡就是前往圣地（像瓦腊纳西）的远游，火化后将骨灰撒在印度最神圣的水上航道——恒河中。||7:这样逝者即可得以解脱——超脱生而死，死而再生的轮回，获得开悟。||8:在瓦腊纳西，火葬的河岸石梯上日夜都在焚烧着尸体。

||1:THE game of football regularly produces playboys, celebrities, racists, billionaires, fashion models and spoilt brats.||2:What it does not produce is saints; with one exception.||3:When Sailen Manna died, 2,000 people followed his body to the Keoratala burning ghat in Kolkata, on the banks of the Hooghly river that flows out of the Ganges .||4:They acknowledged they had lost rather more than a decent player.

||1:足球这项运动往往让人联想到花花公子、时尚名流、种族主义者、亿万富翁、时装模特和纨绔子弟。||2:在圣者寥寥的足球场上，赛伦·曼纳（Sailen Manna）却是个例外。||3:他去世后，两千人簇拥着他的遗体，陪伴他从加尔各答顺着恒河支流胡格利（Hooghly）河畔，送他到Keoratala陵园。||4:对于送葬者而言，他们失去的远不止一名令人尊敬的球员。

in the wide plain south of the Himalaya through which the Ganges , one of the most polluted rivers on the planet, flows.

在喜马拉雅南部的广阔平原上是如此，且地球上污染最严重的河流之一——恒河流经这里。

Upadhyay is angry that Delhi is being allowed to grow unchecked, to the detriment of every other part of the Ganges River Basin.

阿帕德海耶很气愤，因为德里竟然允许增加未经核准的有害物注入恒河流域所有其他部分。

More than two-thirds of the city’s water is pulled from the Yamuna and the Ganges , rivers fed by Himalayan ice.

超过三分之二的城市用水来自亚穆纳河和恒河。而这两条河的水，恰恰是来自喜马拉雅冰川。

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。

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。

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this may be the fate of the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra by 2035.

根据政府间气候变化第四次评估报告，到2035年上述结果可能会是印度河，恒河以及雅鲁藏布江的命运。

When the Ganges floods, it causes considerable damage.

恒河泛滥时造成严重损害。

Gangaes has no expectations, Ganges has no discriminations and Ganges has no vacation, and * for all, flows for all and forever.

恒河毫无所求，对谁都一视同仁，恒河不会让自己停歇，她将为所有人永远流淌下去。

The Ganges river dolphin is also in grave danger; only a few thousand remain, and they live in some of the most polluted rivers on Earth.

恒河河豚也是岌岌可危。现仅存数千头，生活在地球上污染最严重的水域。

The Ganges River is so heavily polluted at Varanasi that the water is septic - no dissolved oxygen exists.

恒河在瓦拉纳西段的河水被污染至腐臭，已经没有溶解氧的存在。

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。

Ganges canyon

恒河峡谷