Within minutes we left the last human developments behind us, and we rolled for hours that first evening past desert scrub of acacia and gum trees and comically steepled termite hills.

几分钟之内我们就把有人居住的地区抛到了后面，傍晚的几个小时里，我们经过的沙漠中可以看见洋槐和橡胶树丛，还有怪模怪样的尖塔形白蚁树。

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In Gurbantunggut desert, human activities of large-scale and high strength have severely disturbed and damaged the desert vegetation.

古尔班通古特沙漠中大规模、高强度的人类活动严重干扰和损坏了荒漠植被。

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However, in desert island tradition, the duality of the desert island image reflects the duality of human nature: human tends to be both good and evil.

然而，在荒岛文学中，荒岛意象的二重性则体现了人性的二重性：人性具有向善的秉赋与向恶的倾向。

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"I make every two years a big festival in the desert. We bring maybe 5,000 persons to the desert to make African fashion true and to help African fashion to grow and to give human face for African fashion."

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But apart from discovering the majesty of the Sahara, Jibunoh also witnessed how drought, deforestation and human intervention were turning fertile land into desert and condemning people to acute poverty.

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Eleven were killed, and human-rights groups attacked the Spanish for sending back others whom the Moroccans abandoned in the desert.

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