1·It will be ready by 20Many countries, especially the ones in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, are planning to build high speed rail lines or to improve their railways with the help of China.
许多国家，特别是中亚、东南亚、中东和东欧的国家，正计划在中国的帮助下修建高速铁路或改善他们的铁路。
2·Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea.
因此，这本书名为《追逐大海：迷失在中亚帝国的幽灵中》，讲述了一段从塔什干到卡拉卡尔的公路之旅。在卡拉卡尔，数百万人的生命因海洋的慢慢干涸而湮灭。
3·Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.
和苹果一样，胡萝卜也是中亚的本土植物。
4·It is said that Roman soldiers who lost a war travelled through central Asia.
据说，在战争中战败的罗马士兵会穿越中亚。
5·That's why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.
这就是为何来自中亚的马会同样如此喜欢苹果和胡萝卜。
6·Tulips actually hail from an area that Chinese call the Celestial Mountains in Central Asia.
郁金香实际上来自位于中亚、中国人称为“天山”的地区。
7·The Botai culture thrived over 5,000 years ago in central Asia, in what is now northern Kazakhstan.
5000多年前，博泰文化在如今的哈萨克斯坦北部的中亚地区蓬勃发展。
8·He had sent two Nestorian monks to Central Asia, and they were able to smuggle silkworm eggs to him hidden in rods of bamboo.
他派遣了两名内斯托里亚僧侣到中亚，他们能够将藏在竹竿中的蚕卵走私给他。
9·Before the discovery of this site, it was commonly believed that central Asia had always been occupied by mostly nomadic people.
在发现这个遗址之前，人们普遍认为中亚一直以来主要是被游牧民族占据。
10·They found this site at the edge of a desert in Turkmenistan, in central Asia, where a series of mounds rise up from the plains.
他们在中亚的土库曼斯坦的沙漠边缘发现了这个遗址，那里有一系列的山丘从平原上隆起。