The winding, mountainous road once served as a Native American trade route.

这段路盘山蜿蜒、风沙大，以前是美国印第安人的贸易通道。

Even any footprints you leave get erased as winds massage the sand.

即使你留下脚印也会被风沙覆盖。

His skin was brown from the wind and the sun.

他的皮肤由于风沙和日晒的侵袭变成了棕色。

Few rocks can resist the continuous blast of the sand-carrying wind.

岩石难抵挡风沙持续不断的摧残。

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的？

The square, when they reached it, was full of wind and flying dust.

到了广场附近，风沙飞扬。

And from that perspective I think you get the clearest view that there's obviously another level of order arising from the chaos and turbulence of sand blowing in the wind.

我想你能从这个角度看得清楚，明显，另一个层次的秩序产生于风沙吹过的混乱和湍流。

Those nations found solutions like turning sand dunes to clay over many years, monitoring the shifting dunes and planting walls of vegetation to block wind and sand.

这些国家找到了解决方案，例如多来将沙丘变成粘土、监测沙丘的移动和种植植被墙以阻挡风沙。

I'd like to say so, but there are cases of shrub expansion in other environments, such as semi-arid grassland and tall grass prairies.

我想这样说，但是在其他环境（例如半干旱风沙造地和高草草原）中也存在灌木丛扩张的情况。

He was thin and worn, but bright and wide-awake. His skin was brown from the wind and the sun.

他显得又瘦又累，可是又清醒。他的皮肤由于风沙和日晒的侵袭变成了棕色。

To this day, no one knows what causes the sands in some parts of the desert to sing.

到现在没有人知道，此地的风沙为何会歌唱。

It is believed to have been gradually covered over by sandstorms from AD 200 to AD 500.

多人相信，它是在公元200至500之间被风沙渐渐覆盖了。

They're formed by the interaction of sand with wind.

它们是由风沙相互作用形成的。

He must endure the fury of the desert alone, but there's an even bigger challenge ahead.

他必须独自忍受猛烈的荒漠风沙，前方更大的挑战在等着他。

But also because something as simple as wind and sand can inspire us to think about something a bit bigger.

也是因为像风沙这样简单的事情可以激励我们去思考一些更宏大的事情。

They organize themselves, out of just wind and sand.

它们自己组织起来，只靠风沙。

Ahead of them is a two-week trek across rolling, dusty, windswept plains.

在他们面前，是一条长达两周的跋涉之路，穿越起伏不平、尘土飞扬、风沙漫卷的平原。

The presence of aqueous minerals has suggested that Mars was once awash with liquid water, which means that the present-day windy red dust ball might have been habitable in the past.

水合矿物的存在表明， 火星曾被液态水覆盖，这意味着如今这个风沙漫天的红色星球在过去可能曾是宜居之地。

There are some examples of troglodyte settlements like the Matamata underground houses and Tunisia, Africa, which uses the Earth's mass to protect themselves from the heat and the windstorms.

存在一些穴居聚落的实例，如马塔马塔地下房屋和非洲突尼斯的住所，它们利用地球的质量来抵御酷热和风沙。

The people began dying by the dozens as they huddled down in the pitiful little pits they had dug to try to keep the winds away.

人们开始成群地死去，他们蜷缩在自己挖的可怜小坑里，试图躲避风沙。