Never
desert a friend in the
desert.
永远不要把朋友抛弃在沙漠。
Farmers
desert their fields.
农民舍弃了他们的田地。
She was
deserted by her husband .
她被丈夫遗弃了。
The
desert is a vast, arid expanse with little vegetation or water.
沙漠是一个广袤而干燥的地方，植被和水源稀少。
She hiked through the scorching
desert, carrying only a water bottle and a map.
她徒步穿越炽热的沙漠，只带了一个水瓶和一张地图。
Many animals have adapted to life in the
desert, such as camels and snakes.
许多动物已经适应了沙漠生活，如骆驼和蛇。
The ancient city was buried beneath layers of sand in the shifting
desert sands.
这座古城被沙漠中不断移动的沙子层层掩埋。
During the day, it's unbearably hot in the
desert, but at night, the temperature drops drastically.
白天沙漠酷热难耐，但夜晚温度骤降。
The nomads have lived in the
desert for generations, relying on their camels for survival.
游牧民族世世代代生活在沙漠，依赖骆驼维持生计。
The explorer discovered an oasis in the middle of the endless
desert, providing a much-needed respite from the harsh conditions.
探险家在无尽的沙漠中找到了绿洲，为艰难的环境提供了暂时的休息。
Scientists study the unique plant life in the
desert, which has evolved to survive extreme conditions.
科学家研究沙漠中的独特植物，它们已经进化出在极端条件下生存的能力。
Tourists often visit the
desert to marvel at its breathtaking sunsets and starry skies.
游客常常会去沙漠欣赏令人惊叹的日落和星空。
In the
desert, every drop of water is precious, and people must conserve it carefully.
在沙漠中，每一滴水都极其珍贵，人们必须精心节约。
Having an annual electricity generation capacity of more than 10 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), the project is also one of the country's first batch of large-scale wind and solar power bases planned for desert regions, it said.
该项目的年发电量超过100亿千瓦时，也是该国首批规划用于沙漠地区的大型风能和太阳能基地之一。
It is currently cooperating with Inner Mongolia Energy Group in constructing a mega solar and wind power base in China's seventh-largest desert, the Kubuqi, which is located in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
目前，该公司正与内蒙古能源集团合作，在位于中国北部内蒙古自治区的中国第七大沙漠库布其建设一个大型太阳能和风能基地。
BloombergNEF said China accounted for roughly half of all large and small-scale solar investment worldwide during the first six months, mainly driven by lower module prices, a robust rooftop PV market and the commissioning of the country's energy megabases, which aim to develop large-scale wind and solar installations mainly in desert areas.
BloombergNEF表示，前六个月，中国约占全球大型和小型太阳能投资的一半，这主要是由于组件价格下降、屋顶光伏市场强劲以及该国能源大型基地的投产，这些基地旨在主要在沙漠地区开发大型风电和太阳能装置。
While Saudi Arabia is rich in oil and gas resources, it is also stepping up efforts in green energy transition in recent years and the region's vast desert areas could facilitate its photovoltaic power generation industry, he said.
他说，尽管沙特阿拉伯拥有丰富的石油和天然气资源，但近年来也在加大绿色能源转型的力度，该地区广阔的沙漠地区可能会促进其光伏发电业。
As the world's largest oil shale mining and power joint venture, the Jordan project — which covers an area of about 3,700 hectares — was built in a vast desert area.
作为世界上最大的油页岩开采和电力合资企业，约旦项目占地约3700公顷，建在广阔的沙漠地区。
China's Sanbei regions will be a pioneer in the country's new energy drive, as China plans to speed up the construction of solar and wind power generation facilities in the Gobi Desert and other arid regions amid efforts to boost renewable energy, according to a statement jointly released by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration in 2022.
根据国家发展改革委和国家能源局2022年联合发布的一份声明，随着中国计划在戈壁滩和其他干旱地区加快太阳能和风能发电设施的建设，中国的三北地区将成为中国新能源发展的先驱。
What stories continue to be written in the distant desert of North Africa?
在遥远的北非沙漠中，还有哪些故事在继续书写？
Let's enter the New Administrative Capital Central Business District project, jointly built by China and Egypt, and follow the "New Dream in the Desert" and follow this "new dream" in the eyes of children.
让我们走进中埃共建的新行政首都中央商务区项目，追随“沙漠中的新梦想”，追随孩子们眼中的这个“新梦想”。
The company vowed to continue accelerating the construction of massive wind and solar power facilities in the country's Gobi Desert and other arid regions while stepping up offshore wind and solar projects.
该公司誓言将继续加快在该国戈壁沙漠和其他干旱地区建设大型风能和太阳能发电设施，同时加强海上风能和太阳能项目。
PetroChina also said it has been actively promoting the development of new energy and new materials while accelerating the construction of new energy bases in the country's desert and wasteland areas.
中石油还表示，该公司一直在积极推动新能源和新材料的发展，同时加快在该国沙漠和荒地建设新能源基地。
Shi Zhigang is a local farmer who settled many years ago near the Ulan Buh Desert, where desertification issues were severe.
石志刚是当地的一位农民，多年前他在乌兰布沙漠附近定居，那里的沙漠化问题非常严重。
"Aside from the impact from the Ulan Buh Desert, what made protection work even harder is that the area is confronting multiple impacts brought by the environmental issues of neighboring areas, such as water and soil erosion at Wula Mountain and landslide issues in nearby mining areas," said Jia Haiyuan, project manager with Third Construction Co Ltd of China Construction First Group (CSCEC1B3), a unit of China State Construction Engineering Group Co Ltd. With the area facing tough and numerous environmental issues, Ulansuhai Nur has an area "awaiting cleanup" of its 14,700 square kilometers, making it the "hardest nut to crack" among its peers, which was exactly what the company was facing back in June 2019, when it came here to work with the local government to make fundamental changes to the area.
中建一集团第三建筑有限公司（CSCEC1B3）项目经理贾海元表示：“除了乌兰布沙漠的影响外，使保护工作更加困难的是，该地区还面临着周边地区环境问题带来的多重影响，如乌拉山的水土流失和附近矿区的滑坡问题。”，作为中国建筑工程集团有限公司旗下的子公司，由于该地区面临着严峻和众多的环境问题，乌兰海努尔有14700平方公里的“待清理”区域，成为同行中“最难解决的问题”，这正是该公司在2019年6月面临的问题，当它来到这里与当地政府合作，对该地区进行根本性的改变时。
The team led by Jia has laid about 32 million sod squares in the desert, planted 13.32 million haloxylon saplings, laid 157 kilometers of sand-traversing roads, repaired an area of 66.505 square kilometers of mines and planted 1,963 hectares of trees.
贾带领的团队在沙漠中铺设了约3200万块草皮，种植了1332万棵梭梭树苗，铺设了157公里的穿沙公路，修复了66.505平方公里的矿山，种植了1963公顷的树木。
Under the scorching sun in a desert area over 60 kilometers north of the center of Abu Dhabi, a team comprised of engineers from 13 countries is sweating at the construction site of a medical facility in the Khalifa Industrial Zone (KIZAD) in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
在阿布扎比市中心以北60多公里的沙漠地区，烈日炎炎，来自13个国家的工程师组成的团队在阿拉伯联合酋长国首都哈利法工业区（KIZAD）的医疗设施施工现场汗流浃背。
Unlike views of the desolate desert surroundings, indoors there are many experts busy arranging the interior layout of the vaccine production equipment and power lines－all for the purpose of better arming the region in its future fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
与荒凉的沙漠环境不同，室内有许多专家正忙于安排疫苗生产设备和电力线的内部布局，所有这些都是为了更好地武装该地区未来抗击新冠肺炎疫情。
This is also in response to the government's recent plan to further optimize its energy mix by building massive wind and solar power facilities in the country's Gobi and other desert areas, it said.
这一举措也是对政府最近计划在戈壁沙漠和其他沙漠地区建设大规模风能和太阳能设施，以进一步优化能源结构的回应，报导称。
China has been working on a massive renewable energy project, with the first phase comprising 100 GW of wind and solar in the desert having recently launched operations.
中国一直在进行一个大规模的可再生能源项目，其中第一阶段在沙漠中建设的100吉瓦风能和太阳能项目已经启动运营。
In addition to building a number of landmark building projects such as Kuntai Jiarui center, Meirui Taifu building and skyscraper for China Aviation Industry Corp's capital business in Beijing's Chaoyang district, the company has planted haloxylon trees and completed other sand-fixation engineering projects on 3,200 hectares of desert land in Ulansuhai Nur in Bayannur, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
除了承建了北京朝阳区的琨泰嘉瑞中心、美瑞大厦、中航工业首都业务大厦等标志性建筑项目，该公司还在内蒙古自治区巴彦淖尔市乌兰布和沙地的3200公顷沙漠地上种植了盐蒿等固沙植物，并完成了其他防风固沙工程。
"Located in the northern margin of the Taklimakan Desert, the Shunbei oil and gas field is one of the deepest oil and gas reservoirs in the world.
位于塔克拉玛干沙漠北缘的顺北油气田，是世界罕见的深地油气藏。这句话的翻译如下：
Moreover, there were huge temperature differences between indoors and outdoors in the desert in the Middle East, raising strict requirements for the heat-shielding performance of the glass curtain walls.
此外，中东沙漠地区室内与室外温差巨大，对玻璃幕墙的隔热性能提出了严苛要求。
The first of three billionaires planning commercial space voyages took flight on Sunday as Richard Branson rose more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, safely returning in the vehicle’s first flight to space with a full crew.
周日，三位计划进行商业太空旅行的亿万富翁中的第一位乘坐理查德·布兰森的维珍银河火箭飞机飞越新墨西哥沙漠上方50多英里，这是该飞行器搭载满员机组首次成功进行太空飞行并安全返回。
Branson, 70, and five crewmates from his space-tourism company reached an altitude of 53.5 miles (86 kilometers) over the New Mexico desert — enough to experience three to four minutes of weightlessness — and then glided home to a runway landing.
现年70岁的布兰森与其太空旅游公司的五名机组人员一起飞至新墨西哥沙漠上空53.5英里（86公里）的高空——足以让他们体验三到四分钟的失重状态——随后滑回并降落在跑道上。
The expressway opened to traffic last weekend, passing across the Atlas Mountains and through the Sahara Desert.
这条高速公路上周末通车，穿越了阿特拉斯山脉并横贯撒哈拉沙漠。
KUWAIT CITY - In the southern desert of Kuwait, the Kuwait New Refinery Project, launched with the help of China Petrochemical Corporation or Sinopec, is under construction with an aim to increase oil processing capacity of the Arab country.
In the summer of Kuwait, the temperature of the desert routinely exceeds 50 degrees Celsius.
"We have seen the need and opportunities for specifically designed tunnel-boring machines, such as equipment that can be applied in urban, mountainous and desert areas, for transportation and hydropower projects," said Li Jianbin, general manager of CRHIC.
"It is familiar with different terrain ranging from tropical to desert regions.
The Luksic Group was founded by Andronico Luksic Abaroa, the family patriarch, in the early 1950s in Antofagasta, a city in Chile's northern desert region.
"Challenges from global warming, climate change, extreme weather phenomena, water deficiency and desertification require extensive and profound approaches and sustainable solutions for efficient farming on the edge of the desert.
Elion has won global reputation for its three-decade long efforts at tackling environmental degradation and boosting livelihoods in Inner Mongolia's Kubuqi Desert, around 18,600 square kilometers of sand dunes that plunge south in an arc from China's Yellow River.
The Chinese environmental protection company was brought in to work on public parks, desert areas and villa developments because of its expertise.
[Photo/Xinhua]Sand from Naiman Banner has turned the desert region into an exporting hub with high-tech industrial productsIf you stroll outside Beijing's National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube, on a rainy day, you will notice something very different.
Up to 62 percent of the region is desert and it used to be one of the poorest areas in China.
"The practice of jointly building the BRI shows that by connecting the Eurasian continent with land and sea routes, the landlocked area is no longer an economic desert, but at the forefront of driving development," said Wang Fan, president of China Foreign Affairs University.
Preferential policies pave way for commercial successA solitary border outpost on the edge of the vast desert has been transformed into a pivotal hub for the Silk Road Economic Belt.
Thanks to their engagement with China, nations spread across a landmass stretching from the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East to Mauritania on the western fringes of the vast Sahara Desert in North Africa are reaping (or set to reap) a slew of benefits.
A shining example of China-Arab States cooperation is the China-aided Mauritania Livestock Technology Demonstration Center, a vibrant oasis amid the sprawling desert.
"However, with 80 percent of its land dominated by desert known for its long dry spells, traditional grazing practices have wreaked havoc on the country's fragile ecosystems, creating a vicious cycle.
When the tree is big enough, Ant Forest will plant a real sapling in desert areas.
From the latest tourist hotspot Zibo, a low-profile industrial city in east China's Shandong Province now famous for its iconic barbecues, to a camel-riding traffic jam at a desert spot in the northwestern Chinese city of Dunhuang, resorts across the country were swamped with millions of Chinese tourists during the five-day holiday.
It is also further optimizing its energy mix by building massive wind and solar power facilities in the country's Gobi Desert and other arid regions to facilitate the country's ambition of non-fossil fuels accounting for 20 percent of total energy consumption by 2025 and 25 percent by 2030.
Currently, China is building 450 gigawatts of large-scale wind power and photovoltaic bases in the desert regions, such as the Gobi desert among others.
In 2017, more than 43 percent of Gansu's surface area, or 195,000 square kilometers, was desert land, and more than 27 percent was sandy.
YINCHUAN－On a sand dune not far from a desert national park in Lingwu city of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, people are busy planting hay.
These workers are dubbed "modern-day Yugong" for their daily efforts in controlling sand and transforming the desert into an oasis, achieving a seemingly impossible task through dogged persistence.
Wang Youde, 69, has spearheaded the efforts to transform a major section of the Maowusu Desert in Baijitan national ecological reserve of Lingwu into an oasis.
"For many years, the Maowusu Desert has endangered the farmland.
In the past, stepping out of one's home meant entering the desert.
When Wang started working in the government's forestry and grassland department in 1976, he realized that in order to effectively control the desert, the income of workers at forest farms must be increased so that they could continue desert control efforts with dedication.
He encouraged the workers to develop profitable agriculture endeavors by transforming the desert into farmland and planting vegetables and fruit, which could be sold in the market.
Wang helped create "checkered grasslands" across the desert after establishing a stable and experienced team of workers with whom he had worked closely for four decades.
When the desert was transformed into farmland, the workers at the forest farms benefited as well, with many now earning 120,000 yuan ($17,904) annually, according to the staff.
"When we arrived here, we were so poor that we did not have enough money to get married," said Li, adding that now they run an orchard and a dairy farm on what was once a desert.
China will also accelerate the construction of infrastructure projects in areas like water conservancy, transportation, underground utility tunnels, and large wind power and photovoltaic bases in the Gobi Desert and other arid regions, said Ou Hong, NDRC deputy secretary-general, at a news conference on Tuesday in Beijing.
The country will release high-quality coal production capacity in an orderly manner, speed up the construction of key large-scale wind and photovoltaic power bases in desert areas, including the Gobi Desert, and make breakthroughs in key and core technologies, he said.
China will accelerate the construction of infrastructure projects, including water conservation, transportation, underground utility tunnels and large wind power and photovoltaic bases in the Gobi Desert and other arid regions, the country's top economic regulator shared on Tuesday.
He highlighted the nation's green transition as a new source of growth and commercial opportunities, saying that the nation is planning to develop its largest wind and solar power base in the Gobi Desert in West China.
North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region started a large-scale photovoltaic power construction project in the Kubuqi Desert, the country's seventh-largest desert, last October, which is estimated to realize a total installed capacity of approximately 2 GW.
An analyst said the construction of a gigantic renewable energy complex in China's desert regions will further facilitate the country's ambition of reaching more than 1,200 gigawatts of installed solar and wind capacity by 2030.
China started working on a massive renewable energy project in desert areas last year, including the first phase comprising 100 GW of wind and solar energy that had started operations last October.
As more wind power infrastructure projects are scheduled to be rolled out in the desert areas of the country and coastal provinces will accelerate the development of more offshore wind power projects, there is a lot of room for growth by wind power parts makers, the analysts said.
With a permanent population of more than 40,000, Zuerat sits in the southern part of the Sahara Desert where there is a severe shortage of water.
The "Great Green Wall" initiative, launched in 2007 and led by the African Union, plans to build a shelterbelt spanning more than 8,000 kilometers across Africa, from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east, in order to prevent the Sahara Desert from expanding southward.
Zhou Na, an assistant researcher at the XIEG, and her colleagues have traveled back and forth between the Taklamakan Desert and the Sahara Desert to share their experiences.
Several tourist sites, such as the Desert Star Hotel and Highway 66－both in Zhongwei Desert－have become popular among visitors.
The expressway linking the Chinese capital Beijing and Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, has a total length of 2,800 km, with over 500 km passing through desert and no man's land.
"From sometimes frozen Harbin in the far north to the near-tropical humidity of the Pearl River Delta megalopolis, to the 1,776-km Lanzhou-Urumqi line traversing the Gobi Desert, China engineers have quickly developed extensive expertise in driving railways over, under and through whatever terrain lies in their path," it said.
In addition to building wind and photovoltaic energy facilities in China's Gobi Desert, in response to government ambitions to speed up the construction of renewable power generation facilities in the Gobi and other arid regions to further take advantage of its abundant wind and solar resources, the company has also come up with various distributed solar and wind facilities at its oilfields, scattered across the nation, to make full use of the abundant energy resources and surplus land.
China has been actively stepping up efforts to build its renewable energy power base in the country's Gobi Desert and other arid regions this year, taking advantage of the abundant wind and solar resources while ensuring a sufficient green power supply in the country's load center in eastern areas.
China has been stepping up efforts in construction of its renewable energy power base in the country's Gobi Desert and other arid regions.
As part of China's efforts to speed up the construction of solar and wind power generation facilities in the Gobi Desert and other arid regions, construction has begun on all of the first large-scale wind and solar power bases, a project launched at the end of 2021 that comprises a total of around 100 gigawatts of wind and solar power capacity in desert areas, the administration said.
Construction has also begun on the second group of bases, comprising more than 30 million kW of wind and solar power capacity in desert areas, while the project list for the third group has been officially issued for implementation, it added.
Construction of the second phase of China's largest renewable energy power base in the country's Gobi Desert and other arid regions will further facilitate the country's shift from its dependence on coal to renewables for power generation — a boon to achieving the country's sustainable energy ambitions, said industry experts.
Located in the Tengger Desert, the project, with a total installed capacity of 2 gigawatts, is expected to provide approximately 3.96 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, helping save more than 1.2 million metric tons of standard coal and reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by more than 3.29 million tons, it said.
The second phase of China's largest renewable energy power base in the country's Gobi Desert and other arid regions kicked off construction on Tuesday in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, said its operator China Energy Investment Corp, or China Energy.
Located at Tengger Desert in Northwest China, the second phase of the project, with a total installed capacity of 2 gigawatts, is expected to provide approximately 3.96 billion kilowatt hours of clean electricity annually, saving more than 1.2 million metric tons of standard coal and reducing annual carbon dioxide emissions by more than 3.29 million metric tons, it said.
The project, also the country's first renewable energy power base in its Gobi Desert and other arid regions, primarily focuses on large-scale wind and solar power development, with a total installed capacity of 17 million kilowatts.
"China's renewable energy sector has witnessed tremendous growth in recent years, with wind and solar power projects springing up across the nation, especially in the Gobi Desert and other desert regions in northwestern areas of China, where the government has been stepping up the construction of renewable energy projects to further facilitate the country's green transition," said Zhou Yuanbing, director-general of the Economic and Technology Research Institute of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO).
It is recommended to prioritize the development of wind and solar energy bases in the Gobi and other desert regions and promote collaborative development in regions in Southwest China to achieve large-scale development of clean energy resources, optimize their distribution on a wide scale and promote efficient utilization, he said.
URUMQI/ASHGABAT — Modiarov Behzod woke up at 6 am, refreshed and geared up for yet another day of work deep in the desert.
Braving heatwaves, Behzod, an operator in a natural gas field, and his colleagues headed to their workstation in the vast Karakum Desert, situated in the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan, renowned for holding the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves.
Freshly extracted gas from over 100 wells scattered across the desert is channeled through gathering stations before being transported to the processing plant for a series of essential procedures, including desulfurization, decarbonization, dehydration and de-hydrocarbonation.
The Tarim Oilfield is located in the hinterland of Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
In May, the largest centralized photovoltaic power station in the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert, the 100,000-kilowatt photovoltaic power project in Qiemo county, was officially connected to the grid.
Countries like Saudi Arabia are rich in oil and gas resources, while Arab countries overall have vast desert areas that can facilitate local photovoltaic power generation.
These range from the Baihetan hydropower station to the world's largest desert-based wind and solar energy project in the Kubuqi Desert and the Shengli Oilfield million-metric-ton-level Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage project, he said.
Liu also suggested promoting high-quality development of pumped storage hydropower while simultaneously coordinating the planning of solar projects located in the Gobi Desert and other arid areas and the large-scale development of offshore wind power projects.
URUMQI/ASHGABAT -- Modiarov Behzod woke up at around 6 am and refreshed himself, gearing up for yet another day of work deep in the desert.
Braving the heatwaves, Behzod, an operator in a natural gas field, and his colleagues headed to their workstation in the vast Karakum Desert, situated in the central Asian country of Turkmenistan, renowned for boasting the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves.
Freshly extracted gas from over 100 wells scattered across the desert is channeled through gathering stations before being transported to the processing plant for a series of essential procedures including desulfurization, decarbonization, dehydration, and dehydrocarbonation.
The teenager was able to make this dream journey thanks to the 2,712-kilometer rail loop encircling the Taklimakan Desert, China's largest.
Launched in June 2022, it is the world's first desert loop railway line.
Now things are improving, especially with the launch of the desert railway.
Most of such solar projects locate in the Gobi Desert and other arid areas.
Mega solar, wind projects to supply power needs, reduce CO2 emissionsThe Kubuqi desert, located in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has always been known for its severe heat and insufficient water sources.
Kubuqi — China's seventh largest desert that was earlier called "the sea of death" — and the Gobi region beyond, consisting of vast expanses of rocky mountains and sand dunes, however, hold out a promise.
A mega solar and wind power base, jointly undertaken by China Three Gorges Corp and Inner Mongolia Energy Group, is currently under construction in the Kubuqi desert and is set to become the world's largest power generation base of its kind.
The scenario is not unique to Kubuqi desert.
The Tengger desert, the fourth-largest in China situated to the west of the Kubuqi desert, stretches toward the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
The desert belt winds through several provincial-level regions including Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Qinghai, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces.