Checkpoints dotting Sinai’s rocky wastelands prevented the Bedouin from reaching their area’s main cash-cows: the peninsula’s tourist resorts, its oil installations and its giant cement factory.

核心就在于在西奈这片荒芜的土地上贝都因人无法将其势力范围触及到当地最富庶的东西：半岛上的旅游业资源，石油资源和大型水泥厂。

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Checkpoints dotting Sinai's rocky wastelands prevented the Bedouin from reaching their area's main cash-cows: the peninsula's tourist resorts, its oil installations and its giant cement factory.

核心就在于在西奈这片荒芜的土地上贝都因人无法将其势力范围触及到当地最富庶的东西：半岛上的旅游业资源，石油资源和大型水泥厂。

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There was also, running the length of the left wall, a giant waist-high cement trough filled with water and dead mosquitoes.

还有一个和左墙一样长、齐腰高的水泥水槽，里面装满了水和死蚊子。

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