It hopes to stop the desert from becoming larger.

它希望阻止沙漠变得更大。

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The Tengger desert is encroaching from the south-east and the Badain Jaran desert from the north-west.

腾格尔沙漠从东南方向侵入，而巴丹吉林沙漠也在从西北方向缓缓接近。

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"They're like children with toys," Abrahim said, pointing out to the desert from the roof of the boarding house, where they were standing.

“他们就像是刚得到玩具的小孩子，”亚伯拉罕说。他们一起站在寄宿公寓的平屋顶上，一面指着沙漠方向。

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Americans know about them mainly from a history of use as pack animals in Arizona and other areas of the desert Southwest.

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One thirteenth-century Egyptian papyrus describes Egypt's tight control of her border areas, and another reports some Egyptian officials pursuing some runaway slaves Obviously this happened from time to time, escaping into the desert.

一张十三世纪的纸莎草纸上描述了,埃及对它边境地区的严格控制，还有一张记录埃及官员追逐逃跑的奴隶,这显然时常发生，逃往沙漠。

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We've a harvest holiday called Sukkot, where we actually sit outside, in this open structures that have natural coverings, branches, often where you can see the stars as a reminder of the time when the Israelites wandering in the desert, after they were released from slavery in Egypt.

我们会过一个收获的节日，叫做结茅节，那时，我们坐在外面，在自然的开阔天地,树枝是我们的屋顶,满天星斗让我们想起,以色列人摆脱了埃及人的奴役，在沙漠中流浪的岁月。

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Last week my wife and I drove across the Sonoran desert from Phoenix to California.

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Counter-terrorism experts differ as to how the attackers - in several pickup trucks - may have reached In Amenas, but there are several roads and tracks across uninhabited desert from Libya.

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Paleontologists recently determined the skeleton was unearthed from the Gobi Desert sometime from 1995 to 2005.

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