CNN News: 世界第二大沙漠

Ten-second trivia:

十秒鐘快速問答：

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert on Earth. What is the second- largest?

撒哈拉是地球上最大的非極地沙漠。那位居第二的是哪個沙漠?

Arabian Desert, Gobi Desert, Kalahari Desert, or Great Victoria Desert?

阿拉伯沙漠、戈壁灘、卡拉哈里沙漠還是維多利亞大沙漠?

Covering about 900.000 square miles, the Arabian Desert is the world's second-largest.

阿拉伯沙漠占地約9萬平方英里，是世界第二大沙漠。

AZUZ: Stretching across Saudi Arabia, reaching Iraq and Jordan in its north and Oman and Yemen in its south, the Arabian Desert dominates the Arabian Peninsula.

阿祖茲:阿拉伯沙漠橫跨沙特阿拉伯，北至伊拉克和約旦，南至阿曼和也門，占據(jù)阿拉伯半島。

Today, we're taking you to a part of this region called the Rub' al-Khali Desert, literally a desert within a desert. The British explorer Wilfred Thesiger crossed it in the mid-20th century and he said it was named Rub' al-Khali or "Empty Quarter" because it's so enormous and so desolate.

今天，我們將帶你去這個地區(qū)一個叫魯卜哈利沙漠的地方，字面意思是沙漠中的沙漠。英國探險家威爾弗雷德·塞西格在20世紀中葉橫穿這個沙漠，所以它被命名為“Rub' al-Khali”或“Empty Quarter”，因為它太大，太荒涼。

But a closer look at this desert reveals much more than sand and emptiness. There's a place of the United Arab Emirates where it's a destination.

但仔細觀察這片沙漠，除了沙子和空曠，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)更多的東西。阿拉伯聯(lián)合酋長國的一個目的地。

REPORTER: This is the Rub al-Khali Desert known as the "Empty Quarter". It's the largest, continuous sand mass in the world. It stretches across Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.

記者:這里是被稱為“空區(qū)”的魯卜哈利沙漠，是世界上最大的、連續(xù)的沙地。它橫跨沙特阿拉伯、阿曼、也門和阿拉伯聯(lián)合酋長國。

While some view it as a harsh and barren terrain, this man couldn't live without it and calls it home.

雖然有些人認為這是一個嚴酷、貧瘠的地方，但這個人卻離不開這里，并將這里稱之為家。

AMRO AHMAD ABU AFFAR, ACTIVITY MANAGER: If you like to be away from the city and from the noise, you can have the peace over here. Because when you go out in the desert, you cannot hear anything, no cars, no airplanes, no noise, no nothing. You just you can hear yourself while you are breathing.

阿姆羅·艾哈邁德·阿布·阿法爾:如果想遠離城市和噪音，你可以在這里享受寧靜。因為當你走到沙漠里，什么都聽不到，沒有汽車，沒有飛機，沒有噪音。你只是在呼吸的時候能聽到自己的聲音。