沙漠

Much of the center is dry and even desert. This area is often called the Outback.

澳洲的中部很干燥，还有一些沙漠地区，这个地区被称为澳洲内地。

A vizcacha, close relative of the chinchilla, rests on an outcropping in Chile's Atacama Desert.

意译：智利的沙漠，有一只南美粟鼠在露出地面的岩层休息。

Photo Gallery: Desert Wildlife A mountain lion swaggers across an outcropping in Arizona's Monument Valley.

意译：沙漠的野生动物图片。一只山狮子大摇大摆越过一个露出山地的亚利桑那的纪念碑山谷。

A new road was cut through the desert to outfox the Taliban along the most dangerous stretch, and NATO said heavy fighting to clear the route killed 250 of them.

在抄陌生近道行进智取最危险沙漠中的塔里班份子后，北约方面声称，为扫清道路，双方展开激烈交战。

And I came across a desert, and I fell asleep under a tree, palm tree.

我穿越了一片沙漠，在一棵树下睡着了，一棵棕榈树

An oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world.

帕尔米拉堪称叙利亚沙漠中的一片绿洲，它位于大马士革的东北方，是古代最重要的文化中心之一，城内现仍保存有当时的许多纪念性建筑。

"We found what looks to be a little pocket, or endemic fauna, right in the center of Pangaea."

在泛古陆中部，早期存在的巨大冰山到了二迭纪末则成为了一个巨大的沙漠样的地区，而这就是人们现在发现古生物化石的地方。

So now she is planted in the desert, in a land dry and parched

现今它被栽植在沙漠中，在那枯燥干旱的地方。

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with dust till you are suffocated, for fear that I should get some of his good done to me — some of its virus mingled with my blood.

如果我确实知道有人要到我家里来，存心要给我做好事，我就要逃命了，好像我要逃出非洲沙漠中的所谓西蒙风的狂风，它的沙粒塞满了你的嘴巴、耳朵、鼻子和眼睛，直到把你闷死为止，因为我就怕他做的好事做到了我身上，——他的毒素混入我的血液中。

T h at will nouris h crops in warm ing regions like Canada and Siberia while parching countries - like Malawi in sub- Saharan Africa - w h ic h are already prone to drought .

科学家们指出，越来越多的迹象表明世界正从赤道仓促地逃离到两极，加拿大和西伯利亚变为适合作物生长的温暖地带，而受烈日炙烤的非洲撒哈拉沙漠中心的国家如马拉维等已经趋于干旱。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷