1·Timbuktu is a great place to send a postcard from but its fame lies more in its inaccessibility than in anything there is to do there.
廷巴克图是一个很适合发明信片的地方，不过它的声名更多得自于它的不可亲近，而非什么都可以做。
2·Twenty years ago, it was very hard to visualize what was happening in Timbuktu.
20年前，我们很难想象廷巴克图发生了什么事。
3·In Timbuktu, shops and businesses with Arab or Tuareg owners were looted.
在廷巴克图，阿拉伯和图阿雷格人的商店和企业都遭到抢劫。
4·At its height that empire stretched from Timbuktu to Bamako, and even as far as to the Atlantic.
在帝国鼎盛时期，版图从廷巴克图到巴马科，甚至远达大西洋。
5·Kathmandu and Timbuktu, both cities most people have heard of but know nothing about.
很多人都听说过加德满都和廷巴克图，但却对这两个城市一无所知。