The first celebrants of Groundhog Day were Pennsylvania Dutch who used the holiday as an excuse to get together and party.
第一批参加土拨鼠日庆典的人就是宾夕法尼亚荷兰人，他们利用这个节日聚会举行派对。
This region was settled by the Dutch in the nineteenth century.
荷兰人于十九世纪来到这一地区定居。
In Brussels these days, it is the Dutch, not the troublesome British, who often block deals.
在布鲁塞尔的这些天，经常阻止交易的是荷兰人，而不是麻烦的英国人。
The Dutch battle against the sea is legendary.
荷兰人与大海的战斗是传奇的。
They wouldn't buy the overpriced textiles that the Dutch brought in from India.
他们不会买荷兰人从印度进口的价格过高的纺织品。
As the costs of shipbuilding rose, Venice clung to its outdated standard while the Dutch were innovating in the lighter and more easily handled ships.
随着造船成本的上升，威尼斯坚持其过时的标准，而荷兰人则对更轻、更容易操作的船只进行创新。
The Dutch reclaimed more than 36000 acres from 1590 to 1615 alone.
荷兰人仅在1590年到1615年间就开垦了超过36000英亩的土地。
According to estimates, about 120,000 tons of imported grain fed about 600,000 people: that is about a third of the Dutch population.
据估计，大约12万吨的进口粮食养活了大约60万人，约占荷兰人口的三分之一。
Pragmatism, the Dutch have long believed, is better than punitive prohibition — and they've got lots of data on their side.
荷兰人长期信奉的实用主义比起惩罚性禁令要好得多——而且这方面他们已经收集了大量数据。
The idea of spending Dutch money to rescue the Greek economy was unpopular.
花荷兰人的钱去拯救希腊经济的点子不受欢迎。
While draining their God-given lakes and seas to make land, the Dutch also happened to create the world's largest artificial island.
荷兰人把上帝赐予的海洋和湖泊抽干了建造土地，他们的填海工程造就了世界上最大的人工岛。
Nor would they buy the overpriced textiles that the Dutch brought in from India.
他们也不会买荷兰人从印度带来的价格过高的纺织品。
There were other reasons for the Dutch no.
荷兰人“说不”还有其他的理由。
In Brussels these days it is the Dutch, not the troublesome British, who often block deals.
在今天的布鲁塞尔阻碍协议的往往不再是麻烦的英国人，而是荷兰人。
There's a saying about the Netherlands and its massive, centuries-long earthworks: "God created the world, but the Dutch created Holland.
有一种说法来形容荷兰这个耗时几世纪的地理工程：上帝创造了世界，荷兰人创造了荷兰。
The governor is Belgian, most of the guards are Dutch.
典狱长是比利时人，大部分守卫是荷兰人。
In truth, the Dutch have parted company with their southern neighbours over the EU.
事实上，在欧盟这一问题上，荷兰人已经与他们的南方的邻居们分道扬镳。
The Dutch have a tendency to do things differently.
荷兰人有一种做事特立独行的倾向。
The Dutch also managed to get a plant back to Amsterdam and to their colonies in Indonesia, so Europe soon had new cheaper sources for their beans.
荷兰人也设法把一株植物带回阿姆斯特丹和在印尼的殖民地，因此欧洲很快就有了更便宜的新咖啡豆来源。
Before BT, the dutchman-who is at ease in French as well as english-ran part of KPN, the Dutch phone company, and worked for Lucent in America.
在英国电信之前，这个用英语和法语交流无障碍的荷兰人经营荷兰电话公司KPN的部分业务，也曾为美国的朗讯公司工作过。
First the Dutch, then the Indians walked off with Britain's steel industry.
首先是荷兰人，然后是印度人偷走英国的钢铁工业。
The Dutch study used a battery of standardized questions plus a phone interview to minimize the chance of misdiagnosis.
荷兰人的研究采用一连串的标准化问题加上电话采访，来使误诊的可能最小化。
The Dutch have been all over the world and left their fingerprints basically everywhere.
荷兰人遍布世界，同时基本上在世界各地都留下了他们的指纹。
De Quiros and Torres were Spaniards, but the Dutch also displayed much anxiety to reach the great South Continent.
德·奎洛斯和托雷斯都是西班牙人，荷兰人也显示了对到达南方大陆的浓厚兴趣。
The Dutch are also disliked for being the biggest misers in Europe, and because of this they incur the wrath of the tourist industry wherever they travel.
大家不喜欢荷兰人，还因为荷兰人是欧洲最著名的守财奴。 因为这一点，无论他们去哪旅行，都不受待见。
But he adds that the Dutch have inspired many of his strategies, and they have shown that it's possible to live on land below sea level.
他还补充说，荷兰人的城市建设对他启迪良多，并且荷兰人也证明了人类在陆地上和海面下生活都是可以实现的。
He is respected in the industry, used to work at lucent-and is Dutch.
他在电信行业中备受尊敬，曾经也在朗讯工作过。并且，他是荷兰人。
The Dutch have a long history with chocolate.
荷兰人对于吃巧克力有一个悠久的历史。
This is not to say that the Dutch don't fight the English, too, because they do.
这并不是说荷兰人不与英国人为敌，因为他们确实开战过。
The other scary thing for the Dutch is, of course, the big guy down south.
另一个令荷兰人害怕的情形就是，南部势力的狼子野心。
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