Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

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Famous famous English philosopher died a number of years ago in the late 1990s.

著名，十分著名的英国哲学家,于几年前，即，90，年代后期过世。

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But who began to divide them up into early and late elements, which I thought drove the field of classics insane for about 100 years, while folks argued about the unity of Homer, the unity or not the unity of one of the poems and so on.

他的成就在于第一个将其分成早期和晚期,此举颠覆了古典主义长达一个世纪,那时的人们对于荷马史诗中诗歌,是否具有同一性有过激烈的争论

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