It is one of the rare places in the world where the desert meets the sea.
那是世界上沙漠和海洋相接的少有的地方之一。
During the dry periods that are common phenomena along the desert margins, the pressure on the land is often far in excess of its diminished capacity, and desertification results.
在沙漠边缘地区常有的旱季，土地所受的压力往往远超其被削弱的承受能力，沙漠化因此发生。
In some regions, the increase in desert areas is occurring largely as the result of a trend toward drier climatic conditions.
在一些地区，沙漠区域的扩张主要是当地气候条件趋于干燥的结果。
The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.
祭司们提出的饮食法并不是避免各种疾病的合理方法，这些疾病是由于沙漠中没有冷藏设备造成的。
Someone used a bulldozer and plowed a two-foot-deep gash in the desert, unearthing the brick and bitumen remains of a stairway.
有人用推土机在沙漠里犁了一个两英尺深的瓦斯，挖出了楼梯的砖头和沥青残骸。
The atmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their inhabitants wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert.
那些地方的空气就像地狱的气息，那里的居民热得精疲力竭，在沙漠中无精打采地劳作。
The road appears today to go nowhere, ending in the middle of the desert.
今天看来，这条路哪儿也通不了，终点就是沙漠中央。
The skeleton of a 40- or 50-year-old Nabatean warrior, buried 2,000 years ago in the Negev Desert, Israel, had multiple healed fractures to the skull, the left arm, and the ribs.
2000年前，一名40岁或50岁的纳巴提亚战士被埋在以色列内盖夫沙漠，他的头骨、左臂和肋骨都有多处愈合的骨折。
Under these circumstances, archaeologist Andrew Smith believes, the small herds of Bos primigenius in the desert became smaller, more closely knit breeding units as the drought took hold.
考古学家安德鲁·史密斯认为，在这些情况下，随着干旱的持续，沙漠中较小的原牛群会变成更小、联系更加紧密的繁殖单位。
Trade was the mainstay of the urban economy in the Middle East, as caravans negotiated the surrounding desert, restricted only by access to water and by mountain ranges.
因为商队只能通过水路和山脉进入沙漠，贸易就成为了中东城市的主要经济支柱。
Several skeletons of another early whale, Basilosaurus, were found in sediments left by the Tethys Sea and now exposed in the Sahara desert.
在特提斯海留下的沉积物中发现了另一种早期鲸鱼龙王鲸的几具骨架，它们现在暴露在撒哈拉沙漠中。
The world largest telescopes are found in such remote mountain locations as the Andes Mountains of Chile, the desert peaks of Arizona, and Mauna Kea in Hawaii, a dormant volcano.
世界上最大的望远镜是在一些偏远山区发现的，包括智利的安第斯山脉，亚利桑那州的沙漠山峰，以及夏威夷的莫纳基亚休眠火山。
Landfill sites on the Iberian peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara desert to the western Sahel.
伊比利亚半岛上的垃圾填埋场长期以来一直吸引着当地的白鹳，但研究中标记的所有西班牙鸟类都飞越了撒哈拉沙漠，来到了萨赫勒的西部地区。
The town sits smack in the middle of a USDA food desert stretching miles in every direction.
无论从哪个方向来看，该镇都恰好坐落于USDA 所定义的食品沙漠范围之内。
Visitors have the feeling of walking in the desert surrounded by native plants and wildlife.
游客们感到就像走在被本土植物和野生动物环绕的沙漠之中。
The desert sections of long rivers respond several months after rain has fallen outside the desert, so that peak flows may be in the dry season.
在沙漠以外的地区降雨几个月后，长河流处于沙漠的河段才会作出反应，所以洪峰可能会出现在旱季。
They found this site at the edge of a desert in Turkmenistan, in central Asia, where a series of mounds rise up from the plains.
他们在中亚的土库曼斯坦的沙漠边缘发现了这个遗址，那里有一系列的山丘从平原上隆起。
In other words, I mean in the desert you have the carbon granules which would collect moisture on top of them.
换句话说，我的意思是在沙漠里，你有碳颗粒，它们会收集表面的水分。
The Saharan people left a remarkable record of their lives painted on the walls of caves deep in the desert.
撒哈拉人在沙漠深处洞穴的墙壁上留下了他们生活的惊人记录。
Bill Gates had a plan to build a new smart city in the middle of the Arizona Desert, and he bought 25,000 acres of land near Phoenix two years ago.
比尔·盖茨曾计划在亚利桑那州沙漠中部建造一座新的智慧城市，两年前他在凤凰城附近购买了25000英亩的土地。
Oil was discovered under parts of the desert and in the Arabian Gulf.
人们在沙漠的部分地区和阿拉伯湾发现了石油。
China was praised as "one of the most successful countries worldwide in greening the desert" by United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director Erik Solheim.
联合国环境规划署执行主任埃里克·索尔海姆称赞中国是“世界上绿化沙漠最成功的国家之一”。
When the "trees" are big enough, Alipay with some other companies will plant real trees in the desert area of China.
当这些“树”足够大的时候，支付宝将和其他一些公司会一起在中国的沙漠地区种植真正的树木。
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？
A phone booth in the middle of the desert with a sign that said "Talk to God" was a surreal sight even at Burning Man.
在沙漠中间有一个电话亭，上面有一标牌写着“与上帝通话”，即使是在烧人节上，这也是一道超现实主义的风景。
The fossil, found in 2001 in the Djurab Desert of northern Chad, appears to be the earliest evidence we have of the human family.
2001年在查德北部久拉普沙漠出土的这个化石，似乎是我们至尽拥有的关于人类家族最古老的证据。
Cleaning dust manually is not practical because of the scale of the installations and the scarcity of water in desert regions.
由于太阳能装置的尺寸很大，而且沙漠地区干燥缺水，因此人工清除尘土是不切实际的。
It is the strangest and most fantastic city in America, glittering in the middle of the desert like a neon mirage.
这是美国最奇特也最迷人的城市，它在沙漠之中闪闪发光就像一座海市蜃楼。
In the endless brown wastes of the Gobi desert in the south of Mongolia huge blue structures are springing up.
在蒙古南部的戈壁沙漠上那一望无际的棕色荒原上，巨大的蓝色建筑正在不断地完工。
From the bottom of the swamp I saw that the lilies told a larger story, about the anomaly of water in the desert.
在沼泽的时候，我亲眼目睹了睡莲的故事，这是有关在这片沙漠里的水中反常的事。
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