Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.

古代史学家写过有关一个沉没海底大陆的事迹。

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We have sent a large number of medical teams to Africa. They have helped treat African patients and some of them have lost their lives and been laid to rest on this ancient continent.

我们派了大批医疗人员，无私地帮助非洲人民治疗疾病，有的献出了宝贵生命，长眠于这块古老的大陆上。

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These new lands will redraw the map of the Pacific, and what will emerge is an ocean that once again contains the ancient, long-lost continent and a more even distribution of land and sea.

这些新产生的地区将会改写太平洋的地图，一块久违了的古老大陆将会在太平洋中间出现！这将使海陆的分布更加均衡。

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It is now recognised that most of the ice being lost from Antarctica is going as a result of warm water eating the fringes of the continent.

BBC: Antarctic ice volume measured

"In a continent in which most of the memory of peoples is transferred orally through storytelling and can be lost, the people in Timbuktu had a written tradition that is quite rare in Africa, " he said.

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