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China's growth has depleted global supplies of energy and raw materials, as well as its own resources of clean air, fertile land and drinkable water.

中国的增长减少了全球能源和原材料供应的同时，也减少了自身的资源，包括干净的空气、肥沃的土地以及可以饮用的水。

These waters flow through Tongass National Forest—a rich, shadowy, complex place fecund with life.

这些水流向Tongass国家的森林那是一个富饶的，阴凉的，混合的肥沃的生活的地方。

Although some might associate Holstein, Germany, with the breed of cattle that shares its name, it is better known for its fertile feeds and beautiful landscapes.

尽管一些可能做为荷兰黑白花奶牛的合作伙伴，德国，用繁殖牛共享它的名字，它的著名的更好的肥沃的饲料和美丽的风景。

And to commerce on an extensive and easily accessible coast, without the interference of a Lycurgus or

为什么他不明白，人们只要听从他们自己的本能，根本不需要可能更容易犯错的莱克格斯的干涉、梭伦的、卢梭的，就会去耕种肥沃的土壤，就会在广阔且容易进出的海滨展开商贸。

Why does he not see that men, by obeying their own instincts, would turn to farming on fertile soil, and to commerce on an extensive and easily accessible coast, without the interference of a Lycurgus or a Solon or a Rousseau who might easily be mistaken.

为什么他不明白，人们只要听从他们自己的本能，根本不需要可能更容易犯错的莱克格斯的干涉、梭伦的、卢梭的，就会去耕种肥沃的土壤，就会在广阔且容易进出的海滨展开商贸。

Some areas have rich, peaty soil for crops, or salty marshland for sheep, but there are extensive uncultivated sections, where reed beds shelter wildlife.

一些地区有适合庄稼生长的肥沃的黑泥，或者适合放牧的含盐的湿地，不过还有大片没有开发的地区，那里的芦苇荡为野生动物提供栖身家园。

Over the last 12,000 years, agriculture arose at not more than nine places on Earth, including China and the Fertile Crescent. Twelve thousand years ago, everybody alive was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or fed by farmers.

在过去的12000年，农业在地球上到达的地方不超过9个，包括中国和肥沃的新月地带。12000年前，每一个生存的人都是狩猎和采集者；现在几乎我们全部都是农民或由农民养活。

Even the basic worldwide division among writing systems —— the sign-syllabic systems that probably originated in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East and spread over the Western world and the word-ideographic systems that originated in eastern Asia and spread through China, Japan, and other Asian countries —— seems to reflect cultural differences, or at least we can speculate that it does.

即使全世界文字体系的划分，如大概源出于中东肥沃的新月地带和传播到西方世界的符号—音节体系，以及源出于亚洲东部井在中国、日本和其它一些亚洲国家传播的单字一表意字，似乎也反映了文化上的差异，至少我们能猜测是如此。

Deriving its name perhaps from the Sumerian word eden, meaning "plain"(or perhaps from a word denoting "pleasure"), Eden was supposedly located in the Near East, close to Israel, its precise locale narrowed by the position of four rivers that formed out of the river that flowed out of Eden and nourished the garden: the Pishon, the Gihon, the Trigris, and the Euphrates, rivers that would seem to place the garden in the fertile crescent.

它的名称源自闪族人词乐园，意思是&平原&（或也许来自话表示&快乐&），据推测乐园位于近东，在以色列附近，它的精确位置被河流的四条河流的位置所成形，此河流流经乐园和滋养花园：the Pishon， the Gihon， the Trigris，和幼发拉底河河流好象就是肥沃的新月形花园。

In the 8th to 7th B.C., Pieria became the second largest province of the Kingdom of Macedonia and helped the ancient kingdom to achieve one of its glorious chapters.

他们在奥林匹斯山脚下茂密的灌木丛中、在佩涅奥斯河和哈利阿科门河之间肥沃的冲积平原上安顿下来，无尽的大海赋予他们梦想，深邃的群山赐给他们希望。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。