Gold, by contrast, is simply an element dug from the ground.

相反，黄金只是从地上挖掘出来的一种元素。

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Disabling the plutonium reactor is an achievement, and we do gain badly needed intelligence by simply being there on the ground to inspect.

销毁钚反应堆是一项成就，而通过有人在实地进行检查，我们确实得到了迫切需要的情报。

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Visualize their negative words and actions bouncing off this wall like arrows on a stone fortress. They simply fall to the ground.

把他们负面的言辞和行为想象成射在铜墙铁壁上的箭。

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If the ground does freeze in your part of the world, simply cover your carrot garden with a thick layer of leaves or straw.

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It simply means human or more precisely earthling because it comes from the word adamah, which means ground or earth.

它只意味着人，或者更准确地说是地球生物,因为它来自单词adamah，意为土地或地面。

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Zimmer said the outside money caused a swell of support for him by incensed voters, allowing him to create his own coalition of activists and simply hit the ground, he said.

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If we ignore or discount their interests simply on the ground that they are not members of our species, the logic of our position is similar to that of the most blatant racists of sexists - those who think that to be white, or male, is to be inherently superior in moral status, irrespective of other characteristics or qualities.

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Some analysts wonder whether much of Africa would not be better off if its oil and diamonds were simply left in the ground.

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