Even as the setting sun silhouettes these gigantic structures against the great desert expanse, a call for prayer floats over semi-finished apartment blocks filled with the activity of city life.

在广阔的沙漠中，夕阳映照出这些巨大建筑的轮廓，但在充满城市生活活力的半成品公寓楼上空，传来了祈祷的召唤。

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They crossed through the great desert.

他们横穿过大沙漠。

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The vertical smoke is lonely in the great desert.

垂直的烟在大漠中是孤独的。

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It was here that the road ended. In front of him was the great desert.

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He quickly learned he would have to cross almost 800 kilometers of the great Syrian Desert.

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To orchestrate his 1993 Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10, 000 Meters, for example, he and some assistants suspended approximately six miles of fuse in the Gobi desert, beginning where the Great Wall ended.

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