As lions cannot exist without flesh and water, they avoid the sandy desert.

狮子因为离不开肉和水，所以它们不会进入沙漠腹地。

Men crossing the hot, sandy desert seek for the green spots where springs of water are found.

古时候穿越炎热沙漠的人, 都要寻找有泉水的绿洲。

Alas for Schizodactylus, the sandy deserts it prefers have retreated from north-eastern Brazil and its optimality there has vanished.

唉，对节肢动物来说，它所喜爱的沙质沙漠已经从巴西东北部退却，它在那里的最佳体态已经消失。

Of course, the Sahara returned to a sandy desert at some point.

当然，撒哈拉沙漠在某个时候又回到了沙质 沙漠。

Tropical plants, sandy desert, waterfalls, craters and caves make the 780-square-kilometer Hawaiian National Park a tourist attraction.

热带植物、沙漠、瀑布、火山口、山洞使780平方公里的夏威夷国家公园成为一个旅游圣地。

Fortunately, Ole's team have created a liquid that, they say, can turn the sandy desert soil into a sponge which holds water and nutrients.

幸运的是，Ole的团队发明了一种液体，据说这种液体可以将沙漠沙土变成一块可以容纳水和养分的海绵。

Sandy desert soil has a lot of gaps in it so water drains through it quickly, making it hard for plants to establish the root system in the ground.

沙漠沙土中有很多空隙，因此水会很快从中排出，植物难以在地面上建立根系。

All the animals were grey too-the camels in the sandy desert, the swans and the eagles, the horses in the hills and the hippos and snakes.

所有的动物也是灰色的——沙漠里的骆驼、天鹅和鹰、山上的马、河马和蛇。

" On our way here, " said that peculiar creature, " I noticed a broad, sandy desert at the left of me, on which was no living thing" .

“在我们来这里的路上，”那个奇怪的生物说，“我注意到在我的左边有一片广阔的沙质沙漠，上面没有任何生物。”

It is a world of red sandy deserts (hence its name--the Red Planet), cloudless skies, savage sandstorms, chasms wider than the Grand Canyon and at least one mountain more than twice as tall as Everest.

它是一个红色沙漠的世界（因而得名：红色行星），无云的天空，凶猛的沙暴，比大峡谷还宽的裂缝，起码有一座山有珠穆朗玛峰的近两倍高。

Next came the wide, sandy desert separating the rest of the world from the Land of Oz, and before noon they saw the dome-shaped houses that proved they were once more within the borders of their native land.

接下来是广阔的沙漠，将世界其他地方与绿野仙踪隔开，在中午之前，他们看到了圆顶形的房屋，证明他们再次回到了祖国的边界内。

" The Gump must have carried us entirely out of the Land of Oz and over the sandy deserts and into the terrible outside world that Dorothy told us about." " We must get back, " exclaimed the Tin Woodman, earnestly.

“阿甘一定是把我们带出了绿野仙踪，越过沙漠，进入了多萝西告诉我们的可怕的外面世界。” “我们必须回去，”铁皮人真诚地喊道。