For years he had fought a running battle with the authorities over the land.

多年来，他为了那片土地，同当局进行了不懈的斗争。

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A proportion of the land is used for agriculture.

一部分土地作农用。

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A lot of our land is used to grow crops for export.

我们很多的土地用来种植出口作物。

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The research is part of a project to search on land and in the water for remains of the Lost Colony.

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Now, in contrast to the land, God's sanctuary can be purified for moral impurity by means of a special sacrifice.

与土地对比，上帝的圣所倒是可以通过一些特殊的献祭,净化道德上的不洁。

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So it becomes a real watershed for us in dating texts: texts that are happy with the existence of shrines throughout the land of Israel are probably pre-Josiah, pre-622, pre-exilic.

它成了我们考证章节的真正分水岭：,一些章节中有很多圣坛的存在,遍布以色列大地,也许是在约西亚之前，622年之前或者流放之前。

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As he tried to rebuild the country, the new President Asif Zardari was reluctant to listen to American advice, insisting, for example, on a land-for-peace truce with Taliban militants in the Swat valley (see Pakistan's Mistaken Strategy) that lasted a matter of weeks.

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Just as the early Zionists had optimistically (and inaccurately) described Palestine as a land without a people for a people without a land, so many Israelis had been content to believe that the Palestinians fled of their own accord, in panic or at the behest of the Arab states.

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But many, probably most, would reluctantly agree to leave if a land-for-peace deal with Syria were available.

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