He had prospected for minerals everywhere from the Gobi Desert to the Transvaal.
他在世界各地探过矿，从戈壁沙漠到德兰士瓦。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
The spacecraft was sent up at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert at 7: 30 a.m. Beijing time Monday with a Long March-2F Y11 carrier rocket.
