The prairieslie in the eastern rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Almost all theirrivers flow eastward from the Rockies.

大草原坐落在落基山脉的东部雨影区，其上河流几乎全部发源自落基。

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"This has been the best part of the trip for us," he said, as we pulled into Kaikoura, in the shadow of those same mountains. "Doesn't everyone like trains?"

“这是我们旅行中最好的一段行程，”当我们进入凯库拉，行驶在凯库拉的山阴下时，他这么说，“大家都喜欢乘火车，不是吗？”

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Things looked and sounded different in Shahrak Gharb, an opulent north Tehran suburb in the shadow of the snow-capped Elborz mountains.

在Shahrak Gharb这个位于Elborz雪山脚下的北德黑兰富裕郊区，情况则完全不同。

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Sunburst, perched in the mountains of the Pigeon River valley in the shadow of Cold Mountain, the setting for the novel of the same name, sells 65% of its products, which include fillets and trout eggs, to high-end grocery chains Whole Foods and the Fresh Market, among others.

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Sunburst, perched in the mountains of the Pigeon River valley in the shadow of Cold Mountain, the setting for the novel of the same name, sells 65% of its products, which include fillets and trout eggs, to high-end grocery chains Whole Foods (nasdaq: WFMI - news - people ) and the Fresh Market, among others.

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Las Vegas lies at the edge of the vast Mojave Desert, in a bowl-shaped valley in the parched rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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