But farmers had learned the hard way they couldn't rely on just one crop, so they planted more corn, peaches,and figs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Who's to say they couldn't eat of that and just live forever?

有谁说过不要吃生命树，吃了便能长生不老？

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In other words, they couldn't just have named towns that used to be Mycenaean, but were still around, so that's why they knew them. No, some towns had disappeared, but the names of those towns show up in the catalog of ships.

换句话说,诗人们仅仅利用,现存的迈锡尼文明城镇的名字,是不可能列出名单的,有些城镇消失了,但它们的名字却出现在《船舶名录》中

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"They had difficult memories, they couldn't be refreshed....They just couldn't remember anything, " Bennett said.

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It's possible that whip or no whip, they just couldn't bring themselves to vote with their estranged partners.

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It was, for many, the horrible train wreck they just couldn't turn away from, even though they know they should.

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