Camels can run on sand, too.

骆驼也可以在沙地上奔跑。

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These help camels walk on sand.

这些能帮助骆驼在沙地上行走。

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Camels can run fast on sand with large feet.

骆驼的大脚使它在沙地上跑得很快。

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The bright white sand dunes are always changing,always moving, like waves on the ocean.

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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And I was out there and the only place you could really get water, except for a few drinking fountains, were from the Evian booths and it talks on-- sand o three fifty for a bottle of water, which is pretty typical of these places, but what was interesting was the fact that this is shipped in from France.

我也去看了,除了几个饮水机之外,唯一可以喝到水的地方,就是依云矿泉水的摊位,而它的一瓶水要3.5美元,这种地方通常都是这个价,但有意思的是,这是由法国进口的

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Otherwise, we are trying to build on sand or air or something equally insubstantial.

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