Pan across desert mountain range.

潘翻过了山岭。

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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。

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The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.

不切实际的穿越沙漠计划已成泡影。

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A major reason is that the dunes bury any plants in their way as they move across the desert.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

He loaded the motorcycle with extra cans of fuel and water and began his trip across the desert.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

In the late 1830s, a bunch of doughty Dutch-speaking pioneers embarked on the Great Trek: a thousand-mile hike across desert and bush to escape the tyranny of British rule.

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The scene is like something from a Biblical epic: 2, 000 sheep are being driven across a desert of black lava.

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Before Europeans arrived, and long after, millions of Africans were marched north across the desert by Arab traders.

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