Once humans tilled the land.

人类曾经耕种土地。

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Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.

还有少量土地被耕种养殖，像火箭一样的山坡灌木丛生，沿着大路旁长着窄细的草。

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More specifically, the physiocrats held that the productive classes were the farmers, who rented the land from the landlords and actually tilled it.

更具体说来，重农主义者认为有生产力的阶级是农民，农民从地主那里租借并耕种土地。

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"The smugglers were trying to pick these up before daylight, but there was probably an agent in the area, " Adame said, explaining why the smugglers on the U.S. side never collected the canisters that pockmarked the tilled land.

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People usually till the land their parents tilled.

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Biofuels Watch, a British lobby group, worries that a craze for the stuff could see virgin land tilled specifically to grow crops such as switchgrass, whose only purpose was to be pyrolised and buried.

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