我年轻的时候翻阅地图时经常能见到这个城市，因为在它周围成百上千英里的范围内，除了荒无人烟的高山和沙漠之外一无所有。

Leafing through the maps when younger, I regularly came across it because there's nothing surrounding it for hundreds and hundreds of miles except inhospitable mountains and deserts.

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除了这些深刻的内心原因之外，我还是一个地图迷，我喜欢在地图上用标记标出我去过的地方。

These deeper internal motivations aside, I am just fascinated by maps, and more particularly, drawing lines across them to mark where I have been.

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