I camped out the other night, and thought to just sleep under the stars, until I found a scorpion while clearing the ground.

另一个晚上我露宿郊外，正准备在群星下睡着的时候，突然发现一只蝎子正在附近游荡。

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In an attempt to provide a firm foundation for knowledge, he began his Meditations by clearing the philosophical ground through doubting all that could be doubted.

在试图为知识建立坚实基础的尝试中，他开始通过怀疑一切能被怀疑的对象来理清哲学立场，以这样的方式开始了《第一哲学沉思录》的创作。

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I think that's fair enough, really - they've worked themselves into the ground to avoid relegation and weren't far away from promotion, let alone clearing the drop zone!

我认为这很公平，真的-他们已经把自己的工作接地，以避免降级，并没有从促进远，更遑论清理降级区！

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Yet his ground-clearing is always refreshing.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary-art criticism

The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.

BBC: The three colours of Ibiza

"We hope the clearing of a lot of bracken and re-seeding of heather will bring back ground-nesting birds as well as more cuckoos, " she added.

BBC: Birdwatcher gave 1922 cuckoo clue