The year 1877 will long be remembered as exceptionally rainless and distressing.

1877年将长期被人们铭记为异常无雨令人痛苦的一年。

Thus, although the main bloom and honey season is only about three months long, the floral circle, however thin around some of the hot, rainless months, is never completely broken.

因此，尽管盛开的主要季节只有三个月左右，但在炎热无雨的月份周围，花圈虽然稀疏，从未完全破裂。

For two golden rainless August weeks he had camped in the house, getting eggs and milk from the solitary farm in the valley, where no one knew him, and doing his cooking over a spirit-lamp.

在八月的两个金色无雨的星期， 他在屋子露营，从无人认识他的偏僻农场获取鸡蛋牛奶，并在一盏酒精灯上做饭。

From the Nile Delta, it is nearly a thousand kilometers across the barren and rainless Sahara to the West before you reach another area that actually receives enough rainfall to support another Urban population — modern-day Benghazi, Libya.

从尼罗河三角洲出发，向西穿越贫瘠无雨的撒哈拉沙漠近千公，才能到达另一个降雨量足以养活另一个城市人口的地区——今天的利比亚班加西。