He points to the brightest stars and describes how to use them to navigate to the Bilma oasis in the eastern desert.

他指着那些最明亮的星星，讲述怎么利用它们找到位于沙漠东部的比尔马绿洲。

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For the past 27 years, the venerable white-bearded monk has lived at St. Anthony's Monastery, an outpost in Egypt's Eastern Desert.

在过去的27年中，这位受人尊敬的白胡子僧人一直居住在位于埃及东边沙漠中的圣安东尼修道院。

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A man takes a picture of a controversial piece of art showing a mocked-up photo of Tony Blair at an explosion in a Middle Eastern desert.

一名男子正对着一幅颇具争议的画作拍照。这幅画是一张加工过照片，图中英国首相布莱尔站在中东沙漠中，背后发生了大爆炸。

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Visit the ancient Coptic monasteries in the Eastern Desert.

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Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.

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