但过去也有过一些时候，雨季的雨水浸透了这片“空白之地”，把它从沙漠变成点缀着湖泊的草原，成为各种动物的家园。

But there've been times in the past when monsoon rains soaked the Empty Quarter and turned it from a desert into grassland that was dotted with lakes and home to various animals.

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如果一个人侧重雨季，就会把玛雅故土称为“季节性热带森林”；而如果侧重旱季，就可以把它描述为“季节性沙漠”。

If one focuses on the wet months, one calls the Maya homeland a "seasonal tropical forest"; if one focuses on the dry months, one could instead describe it as a "seasonal desert".

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到了早晨，车窗外的景色换成了雨季中潮湿的绿色低地，沙漠的干热气候好像已经被我们远远抛在身后了。

In the morning, the landscape changed into a green, wet lowland watered by the monsoon, and the dry heat of the desert seemed far behind us.

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