Here the landscape seems unaltered; a rock outcrop caught the southwest sun as it had done long years before; the olive trees were lifting, glinting, now as then.

这里的景色依旧，而那块突出的岩石遮住了西南面的太阳，和很多年前一样。橄榄树仍然摇曳婆娑，发出点点亮光。

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I am always thinking that, during the long years before Watt invented the steam engine, the human beings were relying on biomass energy and other renewable energies.

我时常在思考，在瓦特发明蒸汽机之前很长的时间中，人类就是依靠生物能和可再生能源存活的。

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Before long, on the lonely road, where he had come and gone for 20 years, grew up a lot of little flowers, in all seasons endlessly.

不久，在这条他来来回回了20年的孤独的路上，长出了许多小花，四季不绝。

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Alea iacta est - "the die has been cast" - and it may be long years before it comes to rest.

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