This is a place of intense heat, abrasive windblown sand. Totally hostile to life.

塔克拉玛沙漠是一片酷热地带，充满了风蚀细沙，完全不适合生存。

Was it washed in, was it slowly covered by windblown sand?

是被冲到那里还是被风沙渐渐埋没？

A windblown fire in Northern California consumed a gold rush town overnight.

北加州一场被风吹起在一夜之间烧毁了一个淘金热小镇。

Two big windblown wildfires had left nearly 100,000 people under evacuation orders this week. Some of the orders have now been lifted.

本周，两起风引发已经导致近10万人被疏散。一些令现在已经取消。

They were drifted over with windblown sand and the handrail was as cold and wet as a toad's belly.

他们被风沙吹过， 扶手像蟾蜍肚子一样又冷又湿。

If something fragile dries and is windblown it might very soon be lost to science, or an arrow might be exposed and then covered again by the next snow and remain well-preserved.

如果某些脆弱东西被风吹走， 它可能很快就会失去科学，或者一支箭可能会暴露在外， 然后又被下一场雪覆盖保存完好。

He remembered once seeing a gauze kerchief blowing in the wind and now he sensed the future as though it twisted across some surface as undulant and impermanent as that of the windblown kerchief.

他记得曾经看到一条纱布头巾在风中飘扬，现在他感觉到未来就像在某个表面上扭曲一样，就像风吹过头巾一样起伏不定。

That was where the kite runners came in, those kids who chased the windblown kite drifting through the neighborhoods until it came spiraling down in a field, dropping in someone's yard, on a tree, or a rooftop.

这时，该追风筝人出动，那些孩子追逐那个在随风飘扬风筝，在临近街区奔走，直到它盘旋着跌落在田里，或者掉进某家院子里，或挂在树上，或停在屋顶上。

I looked at what made the sound, what was in front of me and what had helped me get where I was. He was a windblown blossom of some two hundred pounds with freckled teeth and the mellow voice of a circus barker.

我看着是什么发出了声音，是什么在我面前，是什么帮助我到达了现在位置。他是一朵风吹过花朵，体重约 200 磅，长着雀斑牙齿，嗓音圆润，像马戏团叫卖员。