Hawking's main concern was that a fleet of alien spacecraft could turn up wanting to strip mine the Earth for its bountiful resources.

霍金的主要忧虑是一队外星人飞船舰队可能会突然出现，想要将地球上储量丰富的矿藏洗劫一空。

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Instead, at 10:06 a.m., the plane smashed into a reclaimed section of an old coal strip mine.

而这架飞机最终于10：06坠毁在一个重新启用的旧煤矿上。

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Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth: for a particular commodity.

世界上所有国家都是如此。 而且相同的还有 就是在艺术学科范围内也有等级制。

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In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.

NEWYORKER: Trigger-Happy