half-desert 半荒漠 ; 半沙漠
More than half of the people in a recent survey on the Internet answered these questions incorrectly: How many countries make up Great Britain? What is the world's largest desert?
最近在互联网上进行的一项调查中,超过一半的人错误地回答了以下问题:大不列颠由多少个国家组成?世界上最大的沙漠是什么?
Almost half of the total country is uninhabitable desert.
全国几乎一半是不适于居住的沙漠。
The eastern half consists mostly of uninhabited desert basins with the occasional salt lake.
东半部地区包括大面积无人居住的沙漠盆地和零星的盐水湖。
Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.
现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠
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