The desert sections of long rivers respond several months after rain has fallen outside the desert, so that peak flows may be in the dry season.

在沙漠以外的地区降雨几个月后，长河流处于沙漠的河段才会作出反应，所以洪峰可能会出现在旱季。

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In many cases, this means they are so heavily silted that they dry up when the rains cease and flood during summer when they reach their peak.

这些水库的情况多是如此： 在雨水少的时候干涸，在洪水到来的时候则因蓄水量到达顶峰而没顶。

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This is the peak of the dry season. We haven't had rain for two months.

此时正是旱季之中最为干旱的时候，我们这里已经两个月没下雨了。

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We set out on our own during the late afternoon, ambling through yet another dry riverbed, and wound up at the top of a windswept peak at sunset: Lemarti and Boniface building a fire, Trzebinski embracing and whispering to her young daughter, Tacha, relaxed conversation, aperitifs on offer--and a communal sense of wonder.

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They sampled beef aged 7, 14, 21, 28 and days and older before determining that four weeks was the magic number, when the concentrated flavor is at its peak and has not begun to decline, so all their dry aged beef is 28 days old.

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Only a couple of inches of rain have fallen in Southern California since the start of the year, making the region as dry as it normally would be in the fall, when fire season is typically at its peak.

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