Even as the setting sun silhouettes these gigantic structures against the great desert expanse, a call for prayer floats over semi-finished apartment blocks filled with the activity of city life.
在广阔的沙漠中，夕阳映照出这些巨大建筑的轮廓，但在充满城市生活活力的半成品公寓楼上空，传来了祈祷的召唤。
In front of him was the great desert.
在他面前是大沙漠。
They crossed through the great desert.
他们横穿过大沙漠。
The vertical smoke is lonely in the great desert.
垂直的烟在大漠中是孤独的。
It took them six weeks to walk across the great desert.
他们花了六周时间才走过那个大沙漠。
The Sahara is a great desert in the northern part of Africa.
撒哈拉沙漠是非洲北部一个著名的沙漠。
However, Dunhuang is located in the hinterland of the great desert.
然而，敦煌处在大漠的腹地。
Even the great desert, Takla Makan (he who enters never returns) would spread up to Sindh.
塔克拉玛干大沙漠，(一旦进入就永远出不来)会蔓延到信德省。
The caravan routes through Xinjiang skirted the great desert areas by tracking along the edges of mountain ranges.
大蓬车队沿着山脉经过了新疆边缘的沙漠化较严重的地区。
In front of him was the great desert. Robert Fulton was alone for most of the trip. He worried about his motorcycle.
罗伯特独自一人经过了他周游世界的绝大多数行程，他所担心的是他的摩托车。
Las Vegas had similar problems. It was part of a great desert until Lake Mead was created by the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River.
拉斯维加斯也有过同样的烦恼，在科罗拉多河建起胡佛大坝从而形成mead湖之前，拉斯维加斯一直是一片荒漠。
People have planted a great many trees in order to hold back wind and sand in the desert.
为了阻挡沙漠中的风沙，人们种了很多树。
The Sahara is a sandy desert with great sand hills.
撒哈拉沙漠是一个沙质沙漠，有很多沙丘。
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？
Until now, paleontologists have thought the recovery took tens of millions of years-a reflection either of the profundity of the Great Dying or of the toxic desert planet that the eruptions created.
到目前为止，古生物学家认为恢复需要几千万年的时间——原因要么是由于大灭绝的深重影响，要么是由于火山爆发导致地球变成有毒的荒漠。
After suffering great hardships in the Wasatch Mountains, the great Salt Lake Desert and along the Humboldt River, they finally reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains in early October.
在忍受着巨大的困难经过瓦萨奇山脉、大盐湖沙漠和洪堡河沿岸后，他们终于在十月上旬到达了内华达山脉。
Although the Arabs and the Persians are known to Westerners primarily as desert peoples, they have also been great seafarers.
虽然最初西方人认为阿拉伯人和波斯人生活在沙漠里但他们也曾经是出色的海员。
"I think there is great, great potential here," says project manager Sameer Abu Zaid, as he toured the testing facility, the sound of the call to evening prayers echoing over the desert.
项目经历Sameer a buZaid在参观了测试设备时说：“我认为存在非常巨大的潜能。”那时，号召祈祷声音响彻彻整个沙漠。
But Kajaki now counts as a badly-needed success, after a great convoy lumbered through the desert to deliver a Chinese-built turbine on September 2nd.
不过，在浩浩荡荡的车队于9月2日隆隆驶过沙漠，成功护送一台中国制造的水轮机后，卡加克现在可算作是一场迫切需要的胜利。
I was driving home to New Mexico after spending ten days in Nevada's Great Basin Desert.
我正驱车回新墨西哥州的家，之前我在内华达州的大盆地沙漠里待了十天。
Which was all we could do for the next four days, except watch a mechanic struggle to get Matilda back on the road for the most fearsome stretch yet: the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia.
接下来的四天我们也只能等待，除了看机修工想方设法把麦铁尔达修好，因为我们下面要走的是最可怕的一段路——西澳大利亚的大沙漠。
A desert village perches "on the edge of the hot sands like a small harbour on the edge of a great sea".
一个位于热沙边缘的沙漠上的村子就像大海边上的一个小港口。
Until now, palaeontologists have thought the recovery took tens of millions of years—a reflection either of the profundity of the Great Dying or of the toxic desert planet that the eruptions created.
在此之前，古生物学家普遍认为这一恢复过程需要上千万年——考虑到“大消亡”的程度，或者由于这些火山气体导致对地球环境的毒化程度。
The bucolic woods, vineyards and meadows of the south-west were such a delight after the Great Sandy Desert that we rode along grinning in our helmets and saying: "Corners!
走过大沙漠后，西南部乡间的树林，葡萄园和牧场景色令人愉悦。我们骑着车，头盔下的脸上不断绽放出笑容，不时惊呼：海湾！
I know this sounds stupid, but I at first thought it was about Lawrence of Arabia, the great British desert fighter.
我知道这听上去有点儿傻，但是我一开始以为这门课是关于“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”——就是那个伟大的英国沙漠勇士的。
The 'flowery desert' is a natural phenomenon in which flowers of great diversity appear in July and August.
这片“鲜花沙漠”是一种自然现象，每年的七、八月份，多种多样的鲜花都会在这里盛开。
Everything is important because the big things are made up of smaller things: the great sea is formed by small particles of water, the vast desert is formed by tiny particles of sand.
每一部分都重要，因为大是由小组合而成的：细小的水分子可以聚成大海洋，而广阔的沙漠则是由细小的沙粒形成。
As the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun observed: “Only Tribes held together by a group feeling can survive in a desert.”
正如伟大的阿拉伯历史学家伊本•哈勒敦所言：“只有以一种群体认同感和大家庭归宿感凝聚起来的部族才能在沙漠中存活。”
As the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun observed: “Only Tribes held together by a group feeling can survive in a desert.”
正如伟大的阿拉伯历史学家伊本•哈勒敦所言：“只有以一种群体认同感和大家庭归宿感凝聚起来的部族才能在沙漠中存活。”
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