纪录片《我们的地球》 第313期 极端沙漠(4)

（单词翻译）

It does, sometimes, rain in the desert.

沙漠地区偶尔也会降雨。

Here, in the American West, storms can strike with devastating¹ force.

在美国西部地区，暴风雨会带来灾难性的影响。

After ten months of drought,

十个月的干旱以后

millions of tonnes of water are dumped on the land in under an hour.

百万吨降水在一小时内倾泻而下。

Over millions of years, sand and gravel² carried by the rampaging floods

数百万年来，挟带着砂石的湍急洪水，

have carved channels through the solid rock.

在坚硬的岩石上切割出凹槽。

Slot canyons³, 150 feet deep.

形成狭缝谷，深达46米。

In some places, these canyons have widened

一些地方的峡谷不断侵蚀扩张，

until the land between them is sculpted⁴ into tablelands and isolated⁵ pinnacles⁶,

最终形成桌状高地和高耸的石塔，

some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet.

这是地球上最激动人心的自然奇观。