年降雨量4英寸通常被用来界定沙漠的界限。
An annual rainfall of four inches is often used to define the limits of a desert.
风可以改变沙漠的形状。
起初，小溪不接受沙漠的建议，因为她不愿意改变自己的样子。
At first, the little stream didn't accept the desert's advice because she wouldn't change the way she was.
人们在沙漠的部分地区和阿拉伯湾发现了石油。
Oil was discovered under parts of the desert and in the Arabian Gulf.
航天飞船于北京时间星期一上午7：30在中国西北部戈壁沙漠的酒泉卫星发射中心由长征二号FY11运载火箭搭载升空。
The spacecraft was sent up at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert at 7: 30 a.m. Beijing time Monday with a Long March-2F Y11 carrier rocket.
如今撒哈拉大沙漠的干涸迫使许多人迁移到撒哈拉以南的非洲。
The drying up of what is now the Sahara desert had pushed many peoples to the south into sub-Sahara Africa.
沙漠化是指类似沙漠的生态环境扩张到原本并没有沙漠的区域。
The expansion of desert-like conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification.
随着撒哈拉沙漠的移动，近期一些文献指出了该地区的季风迁移。
Now as far as the Sahara goes, there is some recent literature that points to the migration of the monsoon in that area.
当撒哈拉沙漠的温度飙升到120华氏度时，大多数动物会寻找庇荫处。
Most animals seek shade when temperatures in the Sahara Desert soar to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
令人惊奇的是，真正表现出几千年前的撒哈拉有多么不像沙漠的，是岩石上所画的一些东西。
Amazingly, what really indicates how undesert-like the Sahara was thousands of years ago, was something painted on the rock.
而且，科学家们发现这些石膏具有独特的成分和结构，这表明它们曾经形成于沙漠的低洼地带。
Furthermore, the gypsum was found to possess peculiarities of composition and structure that suggested it had formed on desert flats.
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。
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.
他们的迁徙可能是人口增加引起的，这一人口增长是由人们逃离撒哈拉沙漠的干燥或干涸的迁移造成的。
Their migration may have been set in motion by an increase in population caused by a movement of peoples fleeing the desiccation, or drying up, of the Sahara.
塔格兰德计划通过封锁目前进入沙漠的通道，并宣布新的规定，即只允许步行进入沙漠，来阻止这种人口的减少。
Targland plans to halt this population decline by blocking the current access routes into the desert and announcing new regulations to allow access only on foot.
过往沙漠的南部边界比现在的边界更靠北，而半干旱的草原和较浅的淡水湖泊覆盖了现在干旱平原的大部分地区。
The southern frontier of the desert was far to the north of where it is now, while semiarid grassland and shallow freshwater lakes covered much of what are now arid plains.
死亡谷是一片沙漠平原，是加利福尼亚的一个干涸的湖床，四周群山环绕，在沙漠的地面上有巨大的岩石，有些重达数百磅。
Death valley is this desert plain, a dry lake bed in California surrounded by mountains and on the desert floor these huge rocks, some of them hundreds of pounds.
那片现在是沙漠的地区和所有干旱地区一样，对降雨量相对更大或更小的周期极为敏感，因此那里的动植物分布发生了巨大且迅速的变化。
The areas that are now desert were, like all arid regions, very susceptible to cycles of higher and lower levels of rainfall, resulting in major, sudden changes in distributions of plants and animals.
但是食物沙漠的普及程度似乎夸大其辞了。
But the prevalence of food deserts is almost certainly overstated.
第二幅图清楚地说明了击退贪婪沙漠的方法。
The best way to fight back against the greedy desert is made clear in the second picture.
后来我想，也许我该骑马到沙漠的尽头去找寻它们。
I wondered. Then I thought, maybe if I ride to the end of the desert to find them.
沙尘暴也会减慢骑士们穿越漫长干旱的沙漠的速度。
我照了张luke站在大沙漠的照片，然后说了再见。
I took a picture of little Luke standing in that big desert and we said our goodbyes.
而最主要的废弃颗粒之一则是来自沙漠的飞沙走石。
One of the most abundant particles is the dust and sand that blows off of Earth's deserts.
群星闪烁，灿烂得如同在沙漠的天空中一样，银河稠密而明亮。
The stars are out, brilliant as a desert sky, the Milky Way dense and luminous.
那是一个炎热的夏天，在沙漠的边缘，天热得像火炉一样。
It was hot summer and at the edge of the desert it was like a furnace.
这项在寒冷的加利福尼亚沙漠的壮举被证明是比预期中的困难得多的。
The feat in the cold California desert proved to be even more difficult than had been expected.
将死于沙漠的想法使他们沮丧并且几乎夺去他们所有的勇气。
The thought of dying in the desert depressed them and nearly deprived them of all courage.
刺角瓜也被称作果冻瓜或者英国番茄，它是非洲喀拉哈里沙漠的土特产。
Horned melon is also called jelly melon or English tomato. The fruit is native to Kalahari Desert in Africa.
据加沙的旅行代理们反应，已经有人咨询关于埃及西奈沙漠的旅游套餐。
Travel agents in Gaza say people have asked about package holidays in Egypt’s Sinai desert.
据加沙的旅行代理们反应，已经有人咨询关于埃及西奈沙漠的旅游套餐。
Travel agents in Gaza say people have asked about package holidays in Egypt’s Sinai desert.
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