The extreme rain brought floods, but it also turned the desert green, as shown in this vegetation index image.

罕见的暴雨导致了洪水的到来，但同时也将沙漠染成了绿色，该变化在这幅植被指数图中得到很好体现。

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For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with a lush inland sea or vast tracts of farmland.

一个多世纪以来，科学家一直产生偶然的幻想，要把撒哈拉大沙漠的大部分地区改造成为拥有植被茂盛的内陆海或一大片耕作地的绿洲。

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And then I saw some green shapes in the desert.

接着我看到沙漠里有些绿色形状的东西。

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But, analysts led by Ephrem Ravi in Hong Kong, said there were some green shoots popping through the desert that has become the Chinese economy.

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