The "Empty Quarter" is a huge area of sand that covers about a quarter of the Arabian Peninsula.

“空白之地”是一大片沙地，覆盖了四分之一的阿拉伯半岛。

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Continuing our discussion of desert lakes, now I want to focus on what's known as the "Empty Quarter".

继续我们对沙漠湖泊的讨论，现在我想把重点放在所谓的“空白之地”上。

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According to the study, two factors were important for lake formation in the Empty Quarter: first the rains that fell there were torrential.

根据这项研究，有两个因素对“空白之地”湖泊的形成很重要：首先，那里的降雨十分猛烈。

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Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.

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It also has a well laid-out visitors centre and an exhibition devoted to Wilfred Thesiger, the British explorer who made the Gulf his home in the 1940s and twice crossed the Empty Quarter in southern Arabia.

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In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter (a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical).

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