导读： 在世界上最炎热的地方——非洲的撒哈拉沙漠下雪了的事情。

 

It's quite a time for the strange weather, and it does not get much stranger than snow falling in one of the hottest places in the world.

On Sunday morning, Ain Sefra, a desert town in Algeria known as the "Gateway to the Sahara", experienced a large amount of snow for?reportedly the third time in 40 years. Some reports say parts of the area got as deep as 15 inches of snow, but Ain Sefra officially reported less than one inch in some places. Some people are very excited about it. It was strange enough to provide some very special pictures from an area that usually sees some of the hottest temperatures on earth during the summer.

Now, it's not uncommon for the temperature across even the hottest of deserts to drop tens of degrees Farenheit at night, meaning any unusual snow could stay there around for a while. But photographers at the scene said the snow actually stayed intact for a good portion of the day.

"We were really surprised when we woke up to see snow again," photographer Karim Bouchetata told Shutterstock. "It stayed all day on Sunday and began melting at around 5 p.m." While snow is not often falling down in the desert area, a similar snow phenomenon?happened just last year. Before that, it had been 37 years since Ain Sefra's last snowfall.

难句解析

• intact /ɪnˈtækt/ adj.完好无损的; 原封不动的; 完整无缺的，未经触动的，未受损伤的
  例句：Most of the cargo was left intact after the explosion. 大部分货物在爆炸发生后都完好无损。
• portion /ˈpɔ:ʃn/ n.一部分; 一份遗产（或赠与的财产）; 嫁妆; 分得的财产
  例句：Damage was confined to a small portion of the castle. 城堡仅有一小部分受损。
• It was strange enough to provide some very special pictures from an area that usually sees some of the hottest temperatures on earth during the summer.
  在一个世界上最热的地方的夏天拍到下雪的图片真是让人感觉到奇怪极了。 该句中的that引导定语从句，用来修饰限定前面的名词area；另外前面的it用作形式主语，其真正的主语是后面的to provide some very special pictures。

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