These low mountains are cut by some valleys that sort of run east-west ; you will see one there, the Valley of Jezreel, in particular; that was a particularly fertile valley.

那些矮小的山丘被东西走向的山谷截断,你在这里会看到一个耶斯列山谷;,这是一个富饶肥沃的山谷。

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So you have three main trade routes that cross the country, and they were used by trading caravans that would carry gold and grain and spices and textiles and other goods between Egypt and the rest of the Fertile Crescent and up into Asia Minor.

你有三条主要道路穿过这个国家，他们被通商的车队所使用,驮着金子，谷物，香料，纺织品和其他货物,在埃及与其他肥沃的伊斯兰教国家间,向上到达小亚细亚。

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In Mesopotamia they usually didn't need to because the richness of the soil and so on.

在美索不达米亚,由于土壤肥沃及其他因素,通常是不需要施肥的

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The land was so rich and it was really cheap at first.

这片土壤十分肥沃,并且最初还十分便宜

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So,and also because of the close association of the monarchy, and particularly the Legitimists, they're called Legitimists, the Bourbons with the church-- you've got fertile ground in areas that were still practicing religion, and we'll talk more about that another time.

由于波旁家族和君主主义者的密切关系,尤其是正统主义者,他们被成为正统主义者,他们在教会中,在教会地区有很多肥沃的田地,以后我们会详细谈到

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So the valleys that cut through the mountains are extremely fertile.

那些截断山丘的谷地都是非常肥沃的。

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If you had five slaves and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820, you might very likely have fifty slaves and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.

820年,如果你在阿拉巴马州,拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地,十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶,以及更多的土地

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You have the small settled farmer in the more fertile areas.

在土地肥沃地区有一些定居的农民。

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The way these things work, when you are engaged in agriculture, it's natural to go first to that soil, to that patch of land which is known to be likely to produce the best land, the most fertile, the best product, the most fertile land there is.

这一方式是这样运作的,当你从事农业,你自然而然的会首先关注土壤因素,去找出已知土地中最为肥沃的那一块,土地越肥沃,产量越高,就越追求更为肥沃的土地

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