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？
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?
这个新建立的国家希望从沙漠中开垦出许多土地。
The new nation is hoping to reclaim much of its land from the desert.
想想非洲，失败国家指数年度排名（FailedStates Index ）前60名中，几乎近一半都是在非洲，其中大多数位于撒哈拉大沙漠以南——或者至少是在撒哈拉的最南端。
Consider Africa, where nearly half of the top 60 countries in the Failed States Index are located, in most cases south of -- or at least at the southern extremity of -- the Sahara.
我们去了很多国家，或许是突然冒出来的艰险，比如沙漠中的沙尘暴。
We've been to so many different countries, maybe the difficulties come to us in a sudden such as big sandstorm in desert.
美国指责在欧盟里除了英国，其它国家对在利比亚在的里 波 黎南部的沙漠中建造了一个大规模的毒气工厂的指控中宁可相信利比亚而不愿意相信美国。
Britain apart, the allies have given Libya, not U. S, the benefit of the doubt following our charge that a giant poison-gas factory has been built in the desert south of Tripoli.
美国指责在欧盟里除了英国，其它国家对在利比亚在的里 波 黎南部的沙漠中建造了一个大规模的毒气工厂的指控中宁可相信利比亚而不愿意相信美国。
Britain apart, the allies have given Libya, not U. S, the benefit of the doubt following our charge that a giant poison-gas factory has been built in the desert south of Tripoli.
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