In the early 1940s, basking in the glory of chemical-based intensive agriculture, the farmers avidly took to pesticides as a sure measure to boost crop yield.

在20世纪40年代早期，农民们沐浴在以化学品为基础的集约农业的光辉下，贪心地把杀虫剂当作增加作物产量的一种可靠方法。

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Our work suggests there were many areas with regional societies, that were fairly densely settled, sedentary, and practiced semi-intensive agriculture.

我们的研究表明，有许多区域生活着区域性的社会，它们的居住密度相当大，定居，而且从事半精耕细作的农业。

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The view from the train station and the train for Guangzhou which left in the early afternoon was of a landscape dominated by traditional labor-intensive agriculture.

从火车站和下午出发开往广州的列车上一眼望去，满眼都是传统的劳动密集型农业的景观。

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His advocacy of intensive, high-yield agriculture came under criticism from environmentalists in recent years, but Borlaug and those who followed his lead argued that older methods of sustainable farming could not produce enough food to prevent hunger in poorer regions of the world.

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