Two hundred miles east of ashkhabad , where the soil shelved into ridges of scrub - speckled sand , a harsh wind sprang up 在阿什哈巴德以东200英里处，土地变成了长有稀松灌木的梯形沙地，狂风即时而起。
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Eastward from ashkhabad my train lumbered across a region of oases where rivers dropped out of iran to die in the turcoman desert 我乘坐的列车由阿什哈巴德驶出，一路向东，在土库曼沙漠中的绿洲地区中缓慢行驶，源自伊朗的数条河流便在这里汇集。
