就在上个月，还有人用推土机，在沙漠中犁出一个两英尺深的大裂缝，挖掘到一段楼梯的砖块和沥青碎片，这可能通向另一片墓地。

Just last month someone used a bulldozer and plowed a two-foot-deep gash in the desert, unearthing the brick and bitumen remains of a stairway possibly leading to another cemetery.

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当我的朋友van和我为了在撒哈拉沙漠前观看日出，早上4点出发来攀登这些沙子形成的迷你山的时候，我才意识到这个问题。

I found this to be true when my friend van and I set out at 4 a.m. to climb a mini-mountain of sand to watch the sun rise over the Sahara Desert.

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这个新建立的国家希望从沙漠中开垦出许多土地。

The new nation is hoping to reclaim much of its land from the desert.

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This means the Israelites will have to wander for 40 years in the desert until all of those who left Egypt as adults pass away, leaving a new generation that hasn't really tasted slavery, to enter the land and form a new nation.

这意味着，犹太人必须在沙漠中流浪40年,直到所有一起出埃及的人过世，留下没有做过奴隶的，新一代人，进入应许之地，建立一个新的国家。

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