It has long been a vital caravan city for travellers crossing the Syrian desert and was known as the Bride of the Desert.

这里是旅行者穿越叙利亚沙漠的必经之地，因其名“ 沙漠新娘”而著称。

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Another photo shows a camel caravan right outside Beijing's old city walls, the start of the Silk Road.

另一张照片展示了就在丝绸之路的起点——北京老城墙之外的一个骆驼车队。

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On the day of the funeral, my relatives drove us out of the city in a caravan of cars, to a neighborhood of dirt roads and crumbling buildings.

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The trial had heard Jolly, from Forfar, Angus, picked up vulnerable young women on the streets of Dundee and took them to a caravan on the outskirts of the city.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, used short-wavelength microwaves in 1992 to reveal caravan trails leading to the lost city of Ubar in the Arabian peninsula.

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