亨特和利波认为，建造摩艾岛的活动有助于维持岛上居民之间的和平。

Hunt and Lipo contend that moai-building was an activity that helped keep the peace between islanders.

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他们并不总是优先考虑保护莫纳克亚脆弱的生态系统，或保护生态系统在岛上居民心中的的神圣地位。

They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea's fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the islands' inhabitants.

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他们认为岛上的人口增长迅速，然后保持或多或少的稳定速度来增长，直到欧洲人的到来引进了岛上居民对其没有免疫力的致命疾病。

They think its population grew rapidly and then remained more or less stable until the arrival of the Europeans, who introduced deadly diseases to which islanders had no immunity.

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They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.

岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛

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