由于没有氧气可使陆地分解，因此含硫矿物便封存在岩石中，饥饿的细菌也就没东西可吃了。

Without oxygen to help wear down the continents, sulfur minerals stay locked in the rocks and unavailable to hungry bacteria.

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饥饿的动物可能尝试进食遗弃在地表的残骸，这些残骸已经遍布细菌，吸收了这样的食物这只动物就变成了受害者和致病菌载体。

Hungry animals may be tempted to take a bacteria-laden bite out of any carcass littering the landscape, becoming both victim of and vector for whatever they have contracted.

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