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The Desert Sands!
荒漠之沙！
Dubai is the largest and most important city in the United Arab Emirates.
迪拜是阿拉伯联合酋长国最大、最重要的城市。
Dubai is by the ocean, but all the land around it is desert. Many people want to work and live there.
迪拜靠海，但它周围的土地都是沙漠。许多人想在那里工作和生活。
The most popular place to live is by the beach. It is much cooler there.
最受欢迎的居住地是在海边。那里凉快多了。
But there isn't much space to live by the beach anymore.
但是海边已经没有多少空间可以居住了。
In 2001, people started to build the Jumeirah Islands on the water.
2001年，人们开始在还上建造朱美拉棕榈岛。
They used rocks and sand to make them. They look like palm trees!
建造材料是石头和沙子。它们看起来像棕榈树！
Outside Dubai, there are huge hills of sand called "dunes."
在迪拜城外，有很多巨大的、被称为“dunes”的沙丘。
There are thousands of kilometers of them. There is an exciting sport you can do on them: sandboarding!
延绵达数千公里。你可以在上面做一项刺激的运动：滑沙！
This is the same as snowboarding, but it's on sand instead of snow!
滑沙和单板滑雪一样，只不过是在沙地上而不是雪地上！
It's a lot of fun, but you need to be careful, too -- it's dangerous to be in the hot sun for a long time.
这项运动很有趣，但你也需要小心--长时间在烈日下是危险的。
Drive up to the top of the dunes, then sandboard down.
开车到沙丘的顶端，然后滑下去。
The worst part is that you have to walk back up afterwards!
但最糟糕的是，你还得步行回去！
