We know, because of what we know about similar ancient desert lakes, we know that the lakes didn't last very long, from a few months to a few years on average.

而我们知道，出于我们对类似的古代沙漠湖泊的了解，我们知道这些湖泊并没有持续很长时间，平均从几个月到几年不等。

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Did the little stream want to reach the ocean or the desert at last?

这条小溪流最终想要到达海洋或沙漠吗？

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Within minutes we left the last human developments behind us, and we rolled for hours that first evening past desert scrub of acacia and gum trees and comically steepled termite hills.

几分钟之内我们就把有人居住的地区抛到了后面，傍晚的几个小时里，我们经过的沙漠中可以看见洋槐和橡胶树丛，还有怪模怪样的尖塔形白蚁树。

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Some stories end tragically. More than 200 suspected border crossers died last year in the desert near Tucson.

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And following the last plague, Pharaoh finally allows the Israelites to go into the desert to worship their God but he quickly changes his mind, and he sends his infantry and his chariots in hot pursuit of the Israelites and they soon find themselves trapped between the Egyptians and something referred to as Yam Suph, meaning Reed Sea.

最后一次瘟疫，法老终于允许,犹太人进入沙漠中去崇拜上帝,但是他很快改变了主意,他派他的步兵和骑兵去追赶犹太人,但不久便发现他们被困在埃及和,和Yam，Suph之间。

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