The thoughts sped quicker and quicker as I stood in the empty desert.

我站在空荡荡的旷野上，脑子里的想法越转越快。

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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.

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。

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The green of a lone plant lends stark contrast to the empty expanse of sand in this desert scene.

在这一沙漠场景中，一抹独株植物的绿色和空旷绵延的沙丘形成了强烈的对比。

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In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter (a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical).

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Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.

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