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de.sert SANDY AREAH5dez7Et, $-Ltn(a large area of) land covered with sand or rocks, where there is very little rain and not many plants沙漠The Gobi, Kalahari and Sahara Deserts are all deserts, but they don't all have the same features.戈壁沙漠，卡拉哈利沙漠和撒哈拉沙漠皆为沙漠，但它们不都具有相同的特征。[C] It is often very hot in the desert. [U]沙漠里经常非常炎热。They were lost in the desert for nine days. [U]他们在沙漠里迷路了9天。We had to cross a large area of arid, featureless desert. [U]我们不得不穿越一大片既无生气又无特色的沙漠。Not many plants are able to survive in the strong desert sun.能在沙漠的骄阳下生存的植物不多。(fig.) This town is a cultural/intellectual desert (= a place with little art, music, serious thinking, etc.). [C]这小镇是个文化/知识沙漠。Desert boots are boots made usually of SUEDE (= a type of leather) which reach the ANKLE and are tied with LACES (= strings).沙漠靴A desert island is an island, esp. in the tropics, where no people live.荒岛Robinson Crusoe was marooned on a desert island.鲁滨逊·克鲁索被弃于荒岛。
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