If you stand back far enough from the canal Banks, it appears as though the giant ships are gliding through dry desert sands in the middle of nowhere.

如果你站在运河岸边远处眺望，就好像巨轮在茫茫荒野干旱沙海上滑行。

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The battlefield was silent. The only sounds were the whisper of wind through dry grass and the muted clank of weapons as soldiers stirred upon the walls.

战场一片寂静，只有风刮过干草发出的飒飒声和在城墙上巡逻的士兵的武器发出的沙哑的叮当声。

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To help dry the paper, the mold lets the water flow through the small wire squares.

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That way it can grow before the hot, dry months of July through September.

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Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.

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Cosmo Oil, the fourth biggest, is toying with drive-through dry cleaners.

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An ingenious new laser called Waterlase adds to that the ability to cut through dry teeth and bone by casting a cloud of hot water vapor around the laser's cutting point, a couple of millimeters from the tooth.

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And although West Indies, surprisingly inserted by Dutch skipper Peter Borren, encountered few alarms, a few deliveries barely bounced as they skidded through the dry surface.

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