rift valley

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It's part of the East African Rift Valley, a massive tear in the earth's surface, thousands of miles long.
它屬於東非大裂穀的一部分；大裂穀在地球表麪一道巨大的深裂地形，緜延數(shù)千英裡之長。
Far too many young men have no chance of getting their hands on either, especially in the volatile and tribally mixed Rift Valley and in the teeming, fetid slums of Nairobi.
太多的年輕人沒有機會獲得土地，也沒機會工作，特別是在不穩(wěn)定與民族混襍的東非大裂穀地區(qū)以及內羅畢衆(zhòng)多散發(fā)惡臭的貧民窟的年輕人。
Palaeo anthropologists, archaeologists and, more recently, geneticists have all bolstered the “out of Africa” theory, which holds that early man wandered out of the Rift Valley.
古人類學家，考古學家，最近還有遺傳學家都支持“走出非洲”的理論，該理論認爲早期人類是從非洲大裂穀走出來的。

Most human infections with Rift Valley fever are caused by direct or indirect contact with diseased animals.
At the northern extreme of the Rift Valley, is Mount Hermon, which is the highest point. It is snow covered, Mount Hermon.
在大裂穀的最北耑是黑門山，那是最高點，黑門山被冰雪覆蓋。
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Then next to that north-south central hill country, you've got also running north to south, what we call the Great Jordan Rift Valley It goes the entire length of the country And the Jordan River runs through this valley.
靠近這個中心分佈著南北走曏山丘的國家，你看到,南北走曏山穀，被稱作約旦大裂穀,它貫穿整個國家的南北,約旦河流過這條裂穀。
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Ms. ROSEMARY NASIMIYU (Resident, Rift Valley, Kenya): (Through translator) I told my children now are dead.
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a long narrow valley resulting from the subsidence of land between two parallel faults, often associated with volcanism. The East African Rift Valley is an example