The men lost their way in a sandstorm and crossed the border by mistake.

这些男人在沙尘暴中迷了路，误越了边境。

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You can't get lost and you'll bump into the border before you notice that you've passed the place you were looking for.

在那儿你不会迷路，你会不知不觉就到了边界，不经意间你会发现，自己已经走过了之前一直在寻找的地方。

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Bolivia continues to clamour for its lost outlet to the sea. Apart from a minor quibble over the land border, Peru makes no such claim.

玻利维亚仍然继续为丢掉自己的通海渠道而喧闹不休，而秘鲁除了对国界有些不足为奇的异议之外，并没有采取类似之举。

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The MPs also said they were concerned that since 2011 the UK Border Agency had lost four court cases in which judges said immigration detainees with mental health problems had been falsely imprisoned and subject to inhuman or degrading treatment.

BBC: Border Agency may hand 'amnesty' to migrants, MPs warn

Businesses in the Republic have been hit by shoppers travelling north to avail of cheaper goods and a lower VAT rate, and revenue lost to cross-border shopping has been a sore point for the Irish government.

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However, because the US took no action to lift the controls on cross-border gambling Antigua filed an application to recoup its lost cash by other means.

BBC: Antigua applies for permission to run 'pirate' website