He had prospected for minerals everywhere from the Gobi Desert to the Transvaal.
他在世界各地探过矿,从戈壁沙漠到德兰士瓦。
It linked a stone pit in the Egyptian desert to waterways that carried blocks to monument sites along the Nile.
它将埃及沙漠中的一个石坑与那些水道连接起来,水道把石块沿尼罗河运送至纪念碑遗址。
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。
I wondered. Then I thought, maybe if I ride to the end of the desert to find them.
后来我想,也许我该骑马到沙漠的尽头去找寻它们。
Capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.
从亚嫩河到雅博河,从旷野直到约旦河。
But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the desert to the Red Sea and on to Kadesh.
以色列人从埃及上来乃是经过旷野到红海,来到加低斯。
I stayed in Kyrgyz yurts, walking 30 kilometers though the desert to reach two tiny Kyrgyz villages.
我还穿过沙漠,步行30公里来到两个吉尔吉斯的小村庄。
But six hundred men turned and fled into the desert to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
只剩下六百人,转身向旷野逃跑,到了临门磐,就在那里住了四个月。
They said to Moses, "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die?"
他们对摩西说:“难道在埃及没有坟地,你把我们带来死在旷野吗?”
I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River.
我要定你的境界,从红海直到非利士海,又从旷野直到大河。
You were first sent out into the desert to think on this, and when you had arrived at what you knew for certain, you returned.
你会被第一次送进荒芜的沙漠去思考这一问题,当你达到对知识确定的认知后,你将会回来。
As the landscape dramatically transforms from desert to wetland, nature bursts into life and visitors begin to arrive in the area.
景观由沙漠急变为湿地,自然界生命突现,游客们也开始到达这一地区。
Some firms are building vast fields of mirrors in the Mojave desert to focus the sun onto water boilers and use the steam to spin turbines.
一些公司在莫哈韦沙漠铺设大片大片的镜状物,收聚太阳的光照,将日光能通过热水锅炉转化为热能,将水转变为蒸汽,推动汽轮机发电。
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。
One of the servants told Nabal's wife Abigail: "David sent messengers from the desert to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them."
有拿八的一个仆人告诉拿八的妻亚比该说:“大卫从旷野打发使者来问我主人的安,主人却辱骂他们。”
EVERY year, hordes of free spirits gather in the Nevada desert to “breathe art”, feel at one with the cosmos and sample the delights of Bianca's Smut Shack.
每年,成群自由的人们聚集在内华达州的沙漠里,一起“享受艺术”,寻觅天人合一的感觉,体验呆在名为“比安卡的脏屋子”营地中的快乐时光。
The train was running late, but the 35 aboriginal children who had travelled for two hours through the South Australian desert to meet it did not seem to mind.
火车在晚点运行,但坐了二个小时火车穿越南澳大利亚沙漠的35个土著居民的孩子似乎对此毫不介意。
After the fuel runs out and the craft reaches its apogee, it will essentially become a glider, sliding back toward the vast desert to touch down on the runway at Spaceport America.
待燃油耗尽且飞船达到其远地点后,飞船将化身滑翔机,瞄准广阔的沙漠滑行返航,最后在航天港跑道着陆。
The terrain changed quickly from arable land to desert.
这里的地形很快由耕地变为沙漠。
Most animals seek shade when temperatures in the Sahara Desert soar to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
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。
Though small, the country has abundant plants from desert grasses to tropical jungle.
这个国家虽然小,但植物种类丰富,从沙漠草原到热带丛林都有。
For hot desert locations with access to seawater, a new greenhouse design generates freshwater and cool air.
对于能够接触到海水的炎热沙漠地区,一个新的温室设计可以产生淡水和冷空气。
Rock paintings in the Sahara indicate that horses and chariots were used to traverse the desert and that by 300-200 B.C., there were trade routes across the Sahara.
撒哈拉地区的岩画显示,人们曾利用马匹和马车来横穿沙漠;并且,在公元前300年至公元前200年间,有一些可以穿越撒哈拉地区的贸易路线。
It is not unusual for the roots of some desert perennials to extend downward more than ten meters.
一些沙漠多年生植物的根向下延伸十米以上,这并不少见。
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.
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 drying up of what is now the Sahara desert had pushed many peoples to the south into sub-Sahara Africa.
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。
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。
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.
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。
An annual rainfall of four inches is often used to define the limits of a desert.
年降雨量4英寸通常被用来界定沙漠的界限。
It's possible that rain on the desert floor could turn to thin sheets of ice when temperatures drop at night.
当夜间气温下降时,沙漠地面上的雨水有可能变成薄冰。
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