The low water in a river exposes the dry basin.

低低的水面将干旱的盆地暴露了出来。

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The ground is littered with overturned boats and dead mussel and clam shells, which once called this now-dry basin home.

地面上散落着翻覆的小渔船，死蚌以及蚌壳，这片干涸的水库曾是它们的家。

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The delta forms where the river empties into a basin in the Kalahari Desert, creating a maze of lagoons, channels and islands where vegetation flourishes, even in the dry season, and wildlife abounds.

河流从这个三角洲流入卡拉·哈里沙漠的一个盆地，形成纵横交错的咸水湖、河道及岛屿，在那里，野生动植物比比皆是，即使在极为干燥的季节，草木依然丰茂。

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As we walk over the crest, the bone-dry basin appears below.

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French soldiers will spend the coming days combing the 20km valley with the help of Malian soldiers and police officers who will first go into the nomad camps and mud houses which line the dry river basin.

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