Mr Brito’s sad saga started seven years ago, when his 250-acre fruit and vegetable farm in the south-eastern state of Bolívar was taken over by neighbours.

布里托说，话说在七年前，那一年在玻利瓦尔州的西南部，他的250亩水果以及蔬菜农场被邻居接管了。

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so that they were just reduced to sort of a primitive vegetable state.

于是病人们滑落到某种原始的、丧失思考力的状态。

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Objective: To study the effect and potential mechanism of Naloxone in the treatment for the persistent vegetable state (PVS) followed by head trauma.

目的探讨盐酸纳洛酮在颅脑外伤后持续性植物状态（PVS）中的治疗效果及可能机制。

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The state's fruit and vegetable growers are co-operating with officials despite the losses they are likely to incur.

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Gourmet-cooking empty nesters found themselves gushing over kitchen islands topped with gleaming granite and decorated with state-of-the art cook tops and vegetable sinks.

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It flows naturally from the state's fiscal responsibility for your health that it will try to regulate your behavior, even mandating vegetable consumption.

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