Death valley is this desert plain, a dry lake bed in California surrounded by mountains and on the desert floor these huge rocks, some of them hundreds of pounds.

死亡谷是一片沙漠平原，是加利福尼亚的一个干涸的湖床，四周群山环绕，在沙漠的地面上有巨大的岩石，有些重达数百磅。

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Then we came out of the hills and into the desert: a plain swept by the headlights of cars heading north or back toward Gómez Palacio.

接下来我们驶出了群山，进入了沙漠地带：开往北部或返回戈麦斯-帕拉西奥市的车灯扫过平原。

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Back in Sudan, the pebble-like meteorites formed by the explosion in the atmosphere had scattered miles over the desert, lost on the rocky plain.

苏丹境内，这些在经过大气层爆炸时产生的陨石散落在沙漠之中，隐没于崎岖旷野之上。

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