Now the karakum canal ran down from the oxus through villages with old , despairing names such as ' dead - end ' and ' cursed - by - god ' , and fed collective farms of wheat and cotton 如今,卡拉库姆运河自阿姆河顺流而下,穿过那些以“死角”和“天谴”等古老、绝望的名字来命名的村子,灌溉着那些种有小麦与棉花的集体农场。