这一段又是平原地带，乡村里人烟稀少。

Again the land is flat; the countryside sparsely populated.

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所以住在平原地带的人就用野餐和吃糕的办法替代。

Therefore, for those people who live in flat regions far from any mountain, the problem is solved by going for a picnic and eating cakes.

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中部的平原地带以众多的湖泊，沼泽和低岭为特点。

The central area is characterized by many lakes, bogs and low ridges.

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So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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