Yet today this river--around which a whole culture in northern Taiwan grew and which also served as an important conduit for incoming foreign culture--has gradually been relegated to oblivion by human pollution.
然而，這條昔日宛如母親般孕育北台灣文化，同時也是吞吐外來文明的一條重要河川，如今卻在人們汙染後而被逐漸遺忘。