1·These unusual beauty contests, known as Gerewol, celebrate the fertility the rains bring to the parched edge of the Sahara.
这个非比寻常的盛会，叫做“格莱·沃尔节”，是为了庆祝雨水冲走撒哈拉的炎热后带来的短暂肥沃而举办的。
2·Cheerful Skewering. By contrast, their early music had exuberance and an occasional oasis of unexpected harmony, but otherwise blended monotonously into the parched badlands of rock.
与现在相比，他们早期的音乐欢快明朗，偶尔的慰籍性元素有出人意料的和谐效果，给人在沙漠中偶遇绿洲的舒适感，但是在另外一些地方又像在绿洲中掺入单调、炎热的岩石荒地。
3·ON A Saturday night in Canudos, a town of 15, 000 people in the interior of Bahia state surrounded on all sides by parched, silvery forest, there is a lot of consumption going on.
卡努杜斯是一个有着15000人口的小镇, 位于巴伊亚洲内地, 四周被炎热的银林包围. 一个星期六的晚上镇上充满了消费的人群.
4·If residents from parched states follow, so much the better.
若是炎热地区的居民也纷纷效仿，情况就会更好。
5·Footage from CCTV on Wednesday showed withered crops in parched farmland in Shandong.
从周三闭路电视录像显示，在炎热的枯死山东农田作物。