"It was a terminus for the gold caravans crossing the Sahara," he said.

“对于穿越撒哈拉沙漠的黄金商队来说，这里是终点站”，他表示。

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Chiseled into a 15 sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at 16 caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road.

大佛是在一片被阳光晒得发白的石壁上被开凿出来的，居高临下地俯视着他们。莱拉想象将近两千年之前，它们也是这样俯瞰着途经这座位于丝绸之路上的峡谷的商旅。

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Now it's time to secure the freedom of the weakest among us, those with the border-crossing caravans, the travelling people with no homes who so fascinated the musicians and poets of yesteryear.

如今是时候，保障我们之中最弱势的人的自由，那些乘坐越境篷车的人，那些没有家流浪的人，那些对音乐与往昔诗歌着迷的人。

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