CNN News: 世界第二大沙漠

Ten-second trivia:

十秒钟快速问答：

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极地沙漠。那位居第二的是哪个沙漠?

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

阿拉伯沙漠、戈壁滩、卡拉哈里沙漠还是维多利亚大沙漠?

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

阿拉伯沙漠占地约9万平方英里，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.

阿祖兹:阿拉伯沙漠横跨沙特阿拉伯，北至伊拉克和约旦，南至阿曼和也门，占据阿拉伯半岛。

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，我们将带你去这个地区一个叫鲁卜哈利沙漠的地方，字面意思是沙漠中的沙漠。英国探险家威尔弗雷德·塞西格在20世纪中叶横穿这个沙漠，所以它被命名为“Rub' al-Khali”或“Empty Quarter”，因为它太大，太荒凉。

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.

但仔细观察这片沙漠，除了沙子和空旷，你会发现更多的东西。阿拉伯联合酋长国的一个目的地。

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.

记者:这里是被称为“空区”的鲁卜哈利沙漠，是世界上最大的、连续的沙地。它横跨沙特阿拉伯、阿曼、也门和阿拉伯联合酋长国。

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

虽然有些人认为这是一个严酷、贫瘠的地方，但这个人却离不开这里，并将这里称之为家。

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.

阿姆罗·艾哈迈德·阿布·阿法尔:如果想远离城市和噪音，你可以在这里享受宁静。因为当你走到沙漠里，什么都听不到，没有汽车，没有飞机，没有噪音。你只是在呼吸的时候能听到自己的声音。