Suffering in the environment and climate on food, clothing, on the shore of the Yellow film, hard, barren places, have not even a bird.

苦在环境和气侯上，衣食住行上，在黄河岸边拍，很苦，寸草不生的地方，连一只鸟都没有。

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In most places, though, are the remains of dried-up marshlands, barren clay and salt basins that contain the dunes' dramatic foil: the dead acacia or "camel thorn" trees.

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