沙丘

Blond children scoot around on bicycles, elderly German couples take their evening constitutionals along the waterfront and teenagers who look surprisingly like Californiasurfer dudes guide tourists through an utterly un-African extreme sports scene: sand boarding, sand sledding, sand skiing and sand sailing - none of which includes a dune lift, so all of which demand repeated uphill slogs through the sand and the inhalation of lungfuls of Namibian dust.

金发的孩子们骑着自行车飞驰而过、中年的德国夫妇沿着码头散步，像极了打扮的很花哨的加州冲浪运动员的青年们引领着游客们穿过完全没有一点非洲风格的极限运动场：沙滩冲浪，沙滩雪橇，沙滩滑雪和沙滩航行---每一个项目都离不开沙丘，而且所有的项目都会让你一次又一次地吸入纳米比亚的沙尘。

Blond children scoot around on bicycles, elderly German couples take their evening constitutionals along the waterfront and teenagers who look surprisingly like Californiasurfer dudes guide tourists through an utterly un-African extreme sports scene: sand boarding, sand sledding, sand skiing and sand sailing - none of which includes a dune lift, so all of which demand repeated uphill slogs through the sand and the inhalation of lungfuls of Namibian dust.

白肤金发的孩子们疾速地骑着自行车到处跑，年龄大一点的德国情侣们在河边度过一个又一个花前月下，那些十几岁的年轻人，看起来不可思议地像极了加利福尼亚人，他们则承担起东部旅行者们的导游，带领他们参看那些完全脱离了非洲格调的极限运动：滑沙板、滑沙橇、沙地滑雪、沙飘—这些运动中没有任何一个使用沙丘攀登设备，因而它们所要求的是在沙地上的反复攀爬跋涉并吸入满肺的纳米比亚尘土。

Sometimes they were caused by faraway thunder, sometimes by a thousand tons of sand sloughing down the slip-face of a high dune.

有时是远处的雷引起的，有时是几千吨沙从高大的沙丘的坡面落下造成的。

Many of the grains in them were sulfates formed from the evaporation of standing water, perhaps in the level areas between the dunes.

其中许多颗粒可能是在沙丘间的低洼处，静止的水蒸发后所遗留下来的硫酸盐。

In "Spider-Man 3," recently released on DVD, a close encounter with a particle accelerator supercharges the molecules of Flint Marko, transforming him into a demented dune called Sandman.

蜘蛛侠3中，由于一次偶然和粒子加速器近距离接触，弗林特。马克体内分子结构发生剧变，把他转换成一个&疯狂沙丘&---------沙人

Even though they are extinct now, you can still find their bones, mostly in caves, swamps and sand dunes.

即使是灭绝现在，你仍然可以找到他们的尸骨，其中大部分在洞穴，沼泽和沙丘。

Alone in a vast expanse of sand, a man treks across giant dunes inNamibia's Namib Desert.

在纳米比亚的纳米比沙漠广袤无垠的沙海中，一名男子正独自在一座巨大的沙丘上跋涉。

This trade creates a lasting image in our minds: the caravan wending its way through huge dunes.

这种贸易在我们的脑海中形成了一幅永恒的图象：沙漠商队在巨大的沙丘之间穿越、行走。

I have the company of the other dunes, the sun, the wind, and the caravans which pass by from time to time.

我有该公司的其他沙丘，太阳，风，和大蓬车，其中通过由会不时作出修订。

This is one view of many dunes found in Jordan.

这是一个在约旦发现有很多沙丘看法。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。