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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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。

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Without rain, the land began to turn to the desert that we know today, leaving people and animals to seek ever-dwindling sources of water.

没有了雨水，土地开始沙化，逐渐演变成我们今天所熟悉的大沙漠，迫使人类与动物背井离乡，到处寻找日益减少的水源。

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The area is really a desert, receiving only about thirty-five centimeters of rain a year.

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The resulting work, Desert Rain, is part art installation, part interactive war game in which audience members try to rescue an assigned target.

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The Mediterranean coastal fringes have a Mediterranean climate with some rain between October and March, but the vast area of desert inland has very little rain at all and here some of the highest temperatures in the world have been recorded.

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Richard Hyman of Verdict Research, a retail research company, says that people will desert traditional shopping streets in favour of the rain-and car-free walkways of malls if city centres have no obvious counter-attractions such as a big department store.

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