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　　scythe

　　大镰刀

　　These are dimensions of communication that I've been identifying in "Mowing" with the whisper of the scythe, that is, a tone of meaning or a way of meaning.

　　mesopotamia

　　米索不达米亚

　　Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.

　　copper

　　铜

　　"But the pigments they once contained do, courtesy of their copper heart - even after the melanosome containing them has been destroyed, " he told BBC Nature.

　　mount

　　爬上

　　Dismount

　　“People want to prove the Bible is true. If they can find the ark on Mount Ararat, it proves there was a Noah and a universal flood and it’s all true, ” he says.

　　sledge

　　雪橇, 大锤

　　Another Highland game event is 'throwing the hammer' wherein the sportsman swings a 'hammer' (originally a sledge hammer) over his head and then releases it, aiming to get the longest distance.

　　engrave

　　雕刻, 铭记

　　But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.

　　pottery

　　陶器

　　An artefact is something from a time that stays in that time like a piece of pottery and it becomes like a relic of that time.

　　theology

　　神学

　　But still they are different sects, and that's related to the question of the synthesis among those four ingredients of medieval love, which still exist as ingredients in Catholictheology.

　　predominate

　　掌握, 支配

　　The views of the left wing have tended to predominate within the party.

　　cuneus

　　楔叶

　　wedge

　　楔子

　　Prized vintages from the 19th century have sold for thousands of dollars a wedge.

　　stylus

　　尖笔, 唱针

　　His gift lay in taking what was in front of him—the tablet with stylus—and ruthlessly refining it.

　　tablet

　　pill

　　药片

　　While this is no confirmation of the unicorn-like tablet, it is some of the strongest evidence we’ve seen yet.

　　damp

　　moist,clammy

　　潮湿的

　　You must excuse us, doctor, we have her in the kitchen where it is warm. It is very damphere sometimes.

　　incise

　　切割, 雕刻

　　In theory, the small hole-cutting machine can cut arbitrary hole on arbitrary curved surface, and the tube-end incisory robot can incise round tubes' ends of any form.

　　logogram

　　简写

　　In some lists the middle columns is an Akkadian logogram, the last column gives apparently the Akkadian meaning written phonetically and corresponding to the logogram.

　　semiprecious

　　准宝石的, 半珍贵的

　　It has left many Maasai destitute, with young men now converging in the towns to hustle tanzanite, a semiprecious local stone, or to seek poor-paying jobs as night guards.

　　secular

　　世俗的, 不朽的

　　Some will be relatively secular, but others will not separate religion and the state as the United States and France do.

　　clamor

　　noise

　　喧闹

　　China, along with other emerging countries, will shift the global political balance. But the process must feature contention and clamor.

　　originate

　　发生, 起源

　　Research suggests that spiritual experiences originate deep within primitive areas of the human brain -- areas shared by other animals with brain structures like our own.

　　biblical

　　圣经的

　　And yet, the biblical understanding of wilderness, wilderness was set apart from the land, that was the distinction.

　　settlement

　　subsidence

　　解决

　　The settlement of the issue must not be conditional upon the acceptance of fait accompli.

　　sustain

　　maintain

　　承受, 支持

　　Wants, or desires, are things we would like to have but they do not sustain us.

　　sovereign

　　元首, 独立国

　　Independence and sovereign equality among states is a fundamental principle of international law.

　　patron

　　customer

　　赞助人, 保护人

　　Nietzsche chose as his patron Dionysus – the god of dark unconscious forces, of excess and frenzy, of shades and shadows.

　　complex

　　复合物

　　In practice, though, this is nearly impossible to get right when the data is at all complex, and I do not recommend it.

　　surplus

　　excess

　　过剩, 剩余, 盈余

　　Yes, we could demand that China shrink its trade surplus — but if confronting China is what Mr. Obama is proposing, he should say that plainly.

　　elite

　　精华, 精锐, 精英

　　The court is one of the few institutions in which people have to do some elite thinking.

　　silt

　　淤泥

　　Silt turbidite (landslide) layers on the deep sea floor far off the coast from underwater landslides, likely caused by strong seismic shaking.

　　irrigation

　　灌溉

　　In the United States, by contrast, 41% goes for agriculture, almost all of it for irrigation.

　　millennium

　　一千年

　　What will this mean if all our great efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals are cancelled out by the health consequences of climate change?

　　emerge

　　come out

　　浮现, 形成

　　For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surfaceemerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months.

　　euphrates

　　幼发拉底河

　　Droughts are not rare in Iraq, though officials say they have been more frequent in recent years. But drought is only part of what is choking the Euphrates and its larger, healthier twin, the Tigris.

　　canal

　　运河

　　The adult male sea lion, which was found about a half-mile from the nearest canal, rested on the back of a highway patrol cruiser while officers waited for a marine rescue team to pick up the animal.

　　preserve

　　protect

　　保卫

　　But they say they can go only so far, so fast without compromising tastes consumers have come to relish or salt’s ability to preserve food.

　　brick

　　砖

　　If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient.

　　mud

　　泥

　　Next we venture back outside to the ruins of a mud-brick house, pulverized by bombs. I find fragments of an artillery shell, a prayer cap.

　　associate

　　联系

　　These business roles must still offer some added value to a business before it decides toassociate with a given role and adopt the technology.

　　disturb

　　bother

　　干扰

　　Early in the Libyan crisis he carelessly said he would “not dare disturb” his friend, Colonel Qaddafi, about the violence in his country.

　　isolate

　　remote

　　隔绝

　　If we separate a girl and isolate her from her community, what will her life be like?

　　administrator

　　管理人

　　As an administrator, you need to know how to monitor and tune your paging parameters.

　　merchant

　　商人

　　We have this offer business the one I talked with the computer class, then we have merchant business, we sell our software and our store to other merchants who want to sell in our store.

　　symbol

　　象征

　　If it helps you to visualize your ego self by identifying it as a symbol or as an object please do so.

　　clay

　　层

　　Records of the belief systems of ancient astronauts coming to Earth can be found on Rock Art -- Ancient Sumerian clay tablets and cylinder seals, and in the Bible.

　　cuneiform

　　楔形文字

　　Cuneiform tablets that were inscribed with the great literature of Mesopotamian civilizations were uncovered and when they were deciphered they shed astonishing light on biblical religion.

　　script

　　handwriting

　　脚本, 手记

　　It reminds others -- and even you, if you forget -- how to use the script.

　　bronze

　　青铜

　　Medals are awarded in each event, with gold for first place, silver for second and bronzefor third, a tradition which started in 1951.

　　widespread

　　传播

　　If a government allows the advertising and widespread sales of tobacco, alcohol and processed food, surely it should also offer help in controlling or curbing excess use from addiction?

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