The Namib Desert的意思|示意

At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand dune on the eastern edge of the Namib Desert.

就在冬至前三周，晨曦时分，纳米比亚大沙漠的东边的沙丘上，最后一缕灰色的晨雾衬着粉色的天空蜿蜒屈曲。

IN THE dry desert on the west coast of Namibia, where the annual average rainfall is a meagre 40mm, the Namib beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) has evolved a unique mechanism to drink.

在年平均降水量仅有40毫米的纳米比亚西海岸的干燥沙漠里，纳米布甲虫已进化出独特的集水机能。

Just the Namib Desert, said to be the oldest on Earth, having maintained at least semi-arid conditions for anywhere between 55 and 80 million years.

只有纳米布沙漠，据说是地球上最古老的沙漠，这儿处处保持至少半干旱的条件已有5500万到8000万年。

These dunes are similar in form, size and cause (the blowing of the wind) to those found in the Namib desert on Earth.

这些沙丘在形状、大小和成因(风吹所致)上，和地球上的Namib沙漠上的沙丘相似。

There are south-western Namib Desert and the desert kgalagadi.

西南部还有纳米布沙漠和卡拉哈迪沙漠。

The Namib desert in Africa and the Atacama desert in Chile are examples of coastal deserts.

非洲的纳米比亚沙漠和智利的阿塔·卡马沙漠都是沿海沙漠。