来自纤维素质的先进生物燃料-植物废物和木头-更好，因为他们不直接同食物竞争，但他们仍然需要适度肥沃的土地来生长。

Advanced biofuels from cellulosic material - plant waste and wood - are better, because they don't compete directly with food, but they still need reasonably fertile land in which to grow.

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而对另一些人来说，他们感受到了切身利益的损失，他们不情愿的放弃了那些一年可以获得三次大丰收的肥沃土地。

But in others, the owners felt genuinely aggrieved, sorry to lose fertile cropland that yielded as many as three harvests a year.

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新的烹饪方法层出不穷，咖啡变得更好喝了。 我们正在经过的肥沃平原上，产出了许多夏敦埃酒。

New kinds of cooking have thrived, the coffee has become drinkable and chardonnay flourishes on the fertile plain across which we were trundling.

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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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