Years ago, Tanith and her father, Josen, crash-landed on Ophideraan, a desert world ruled by the Serpent Masters.

几年前，塔尼思和她的父亲乔森迫降在奥菲德朗——一颗由蛇主统治的沙漠星球。

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They live in a wide world, from east to west, ancient to present, but their hearts beat in a narrow desert, closed tight, unable to communicate.

他们生活在一个广阔的世界里，从东到西，从古到今，但他们的心却在一片狭窄的沙漠里跳动，紧闭着，无法交流。

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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。

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As Africa is slowly becoming a desert, all the other cold parts of the world like Russia, Scandinavia, Alaska, Greenland and Antarctica are becoming warmer and will become friendlier places to live in and there will be more vegetation.

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Radiation, which turns our cells against themselves, which recodes our very DNA. Radiation, which lives in our cell phones and microwaves and vegetables, which collects in glowing puddles of nuclear waste as the world settles into a crater-filled desert in the aftermath of the coming apocalypse.

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Then there is the ancient city of Palmyra, another Unesco World Heritage site, whose ruins lay scattered across a desert oasis 150 miles northeast of Damascus.

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