from paddle to puddle ? 这些词总是记混，怎么办？

Posted 2021-04-01 迁哥雅思口语

课间休息数分钟的break time ,  阅读了一篇经济学人economist 的文章---The Murray-Darling  From paddles to puddles  

如何翻译？ 从船桨到泥浆 !  

文字如下： Austrialia's biggest river is running dry, despite an expensive plan to save it.  

Paddle steamers once chugged up and down the Darling, the main tributary of the Murray river , ferrying wool from remote farms to the port of Adelaide. The Murray-Darling basin, which is larger than Ethiopia, gives life to Austria's arid interior 。 But these days the Darling is reduced to a putrid standstill with alarming regularity. Parts of it disappear altogether at times, a phenomenon which was almost unprecedented before this centuary . Robert Mcbirde , whose parcched sheep station in the state of New South Wales dependes on its flow, estimates that 600 km of the lower Darling will run dry this year.