Skies over the Middle East were clear, providing a cloud-free view of Arabian Peninsula and the mountains of Iran and Pakistan.

中东地区的天空非常晴朗，使我们能一览无云的阿拉伯半岛以及伊朗与巴基斯坦群山的景象。

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Law enforcers on the west coast of the US and in the middle states straddled by the foothills of the Appalachian mountains are reporting a common trend.

在美国西海岸和中部位于阿巴拉契亚山脚下的几个州的执法人员报告了这一趋势。

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It is towards the end of April that the work of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.

四月末，乳酪厂的工作开始；六月中，那些制酪工人就把他们的牛牵到山里去了。

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The valley looks like a hole in the middle of the mountains that surround it.

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Wineries are clustered along the length of the 132-mile long Okanagan Valley, which has a string of lakes running through its middle and is surrounded by mountains on either side.

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The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT guys are pretty tough fellas, but several of them had to be airlifted out of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the middle of an adventure race.

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The newly-emerged Asian middle classes have now seen much of their wealth buried under mountains of bad debt or else destroyed as stockmarkets have crashed, currencies have lost value and property bubbles have burst.

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