Let's head to the United Arab Emirates in the Arabian Peninsula.

让我们将目光转向阿拉伯半岛的阿拉伯联合酋长国。

We start on the Arabian Peninsula where two countries were hit by severe weather.

我们先从阿拉伯半岛开始，那里有两个国家受到恶劣天气的影响。

The largest country in the Arabian Peninsula, 35.2% of Saudi Arabia's population struggles with obesity.

阿拉伯半岛上最大的国家，35.2%的沙特阿拉伯人患有肥胖症。

This work would profoundly influence the development of mathematics and astronomy in southern India and across the Arabian Peninsula.

这深刻地影响了南印度和整个阿拉伯半岛的数学和天文学发展。

REPORTER: The Empty Quarter desert, 250,000 square miles,stretching across the Arabian Peninsula,it's the world's largest sand desert.

空域沙漠，占地25万平方英里，横跨阿拉伯半岛，是世界上最大的沙漠。

In the last few years, this small country on the Arabian Peninsula has risen to being one of the fattest nations on earth.

在过去的几年里，这个阿拉伯半岛上的小国已经成为世界上最肥胖的国家之一。

They also said it is the first human fossil from the Arabian peninsula.

他们还说这是来自阿拉伯半岛的第一块人类化石。

Also, at the time, the Arabian peninsula was like this crazy religious melting pot.

此外，当时的阿拉伯半岛就像这个疯狂的宗教熔炉。

The prophet Muhammad united the people of the Arabian Peninsula through the formation of Islam.

先知穆罕默德通过伊斯兰教的形成团结了阿拉伯半岛的人民。

This part of the Arabian Peninsula is where an unusual rock formation pulls carbon out of the air.

阿拉伯半岛的这一部分是一个不寻常的岩层从空气中吸取碳的地方。

The main sources of these mineral dusts are the arid regions of Northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Central Asia.

这些矿尘的主要来源是北非、阿拉伯半岛和中亚的干旱地区。

So even a ship sailing from a less distant place like the Arabian Peninsula could take a year or more.

因此，即使是从阿拉伯半岛等不太远的地方航行的船只也可能需要一年或更长时间。

The last big upsurge, which began in the Arabian peninsula in 2018, lasted three years and affected countries as far afield as Tanzania and Iran.

上一次大规模疫情始于 2018 年的阿拉伯半岛，持续了三年， 影响到坦桑尼亚和伊朗等遥远的国家。

We'll choose a time at the end of the last ice age, when a vast savannah covered the Arabian peninsula, extending across what is now Jordan and into southern Israel.

我们将选择最后一个冰河时代末期的一个时间，当时广阔的大草原覆盖了阿拉伯半岛，延伸穿过现在的约旦并进入以色列南部。

The first caliphate of Islam often called the  Rashidun Caliphate, had witnessed a military expansion in the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant,   North Africa, and parts of Central and South Asia.

伊斯兰教的第一个哈里发通常被称为 Rashidun 哈里发，见证了阿拉伯半岛、黎凡特、北非以及中亚和南亚部分地区的军事扩张。

The controversial writer, H.P. Lovecraft, once wrote a story in 1921 called " The Nameless City." In the story, the protagonist discovers a strange city in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula.

备受争议的作家 H. P. 洛夫克拉夫特，曾在 1921 年写过一个故事， 叫做《无名之城》。 在故事中，主人公在阿拉伯半岛的沙漠中发现了一座陌生的城市。

But with the progressive desertification of the Arabian peninsula, many of these people migrated north to the region west of the Jordan River in search of grazing lands for their herds.

但随着阿拉伯半岛日益荒漠化，许多人向北迁移到约旦河以西地区， 为他们的畜群寻找牧场。

Wood, for instance, can be used to build houses -- but it’s not all that plentiful in the Arabian peninsula, however, when it becomes cheaper thanks to trade, suddenly more people can have better houses.

例如， 木材可以用来建造房屋— —但阿拉伯半岛的木材并不那么丰富， 然而， 当贸易使木材变得更便宜时， 突然间更多的人可以拥有更好的房子。