Such is the ferocity of the elements that police sometimes have to stop the traffic that passes through this arid, six-mile-wide plain on what was once part of the Silk Road.

• 风能是如此的凶猛，以至于警察有时不得不阻止那些在六英里宽的干旱贫瘠的草原上的运输车队，这里曾经是丝绸之路的一部分。