Abel is a keeper of sheep. He represents the nomadic pastoralist, unlike Cain who is the tiller of soil, so he represents more settled urban life.

亚伯是一个牧羊人，代表着不断迁徙的牧场主，而该隐是一个农夫，他代表在城市定居的人。

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So, you must imagine these are successive kings who are being buried in this, what must have been, sacred soil.

因此,你必须设想他们是被埋葬在,这块圣土中的历任国王

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In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.

在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言

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As Hanson points out, look at the difference between this and previous ways of working the soil.

正如汉森所指出的那样,比较此方式和旧有耕作方式的不同你就会发现

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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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Every piece of that soil is necessary.

每一片特定土地的土壤都是必要的

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Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

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We see him, a nobleman that he is, former king that he is, working the soil and how he does this is very illuminating, because he is clearly, according to Hanson, involved in the period after the transition away from an earlier style.

我们所看到的他,出身贵族,履职前任国王,耕种土地,他所作的一切都具有启蒙意义,因为,根据汉森所述,他无疑身处在一个向古风时期,转型的早期年代

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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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