黄沙、天空,科威特市周围一望无垠的沙漠中能见的就是这两样。残夏一个早上5:35,温度已上升到华氏118度,而且像太阳露出地平线那样迅速上升。然而,景色中最重要的特色也许是看不见的东西。在盟军部队从伊拉克手中解放科威特后3年,海湾战争的战火依然在燃烧。在冲突前几个月里,伊拉克和盟军部队埋下了大约700万颗地雷,后来又放弃了它们。此后,来自6个国家的的4000名军火专家,在科威特提供的10亿美元支持下,一直在缓慢地向前推 The yellow sand, the sky, and the vast expanse of deserts around Kuwait City can be seen in two different ways. At 5:35 a.m. in the summer, the temperature has risen to 118 degrees Fahrenheit and rises as rapidly as the horizon of the sun. However, the most important feature of the scenery may be invisible. Three years after the coalition forces liberated Kuwait from Iraq, the war in the Gulf war is still burning. In the months leading up to the conflict, Iraqi and coalition forces laid some 7 million land mines and later abandoned them. Since then, 4,000 arms experts from 6 countries, with the support of $ 1 billion from Kuwait, have been slowly pushing forward