The ancestors of the modern Zuni and Hopi built and then, for reasons still mysterious, abandoned the complex roads and structures of the domain they ruled a millennium ago in the American southwest.

一千年前在美国西南部，现代祖尼人和霍皮人的祖先在他们统治的土地上修建了复杂的道路和建筑，后来由于一些不为人所知的原因，又遗弃了这些复杂的道路和建筑。

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A few months ago, we met up for a three-day weekend in the American Southwest.

几个月前的一个周末，我们在美国西南部聚了三天。

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Haboob - a name imported from the Arabic for massive sandstorms in the American Southwest.

沙尘暴——在美国西南部的沙尘暴名称是从阿拉伯进口的。

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I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest.

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Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

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This week on our program, we explore a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the American Southwest, near the city of Carlsbad,New Mexico.

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This was a culture that flourished in the American Southwest for hundreds of years, built astonishing cliff dwellings, and then vanished.

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According to research published in the journal Science, the Anasazi -- the ancestors of modern Pueblo Indians, who built elaborate stone and adobe structures in the American Southwest -- also may have succumbed to decades of intense drought and cooler temperatures during the 13th century, in addition to factors like warfare and religious turmoil.

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