To be in a state of purity simply means that one is qualified to contact the sacred: to enter the sacred precincts, to handle sacred objects, and so on.

处于纯洁的状态仅仅意味着有资格,去接触神圣，比如说进入圣地的周边地区，打理神圣的物件，等等。

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You see most of the cases are in Central Africa and in the region around India, particularly Northern India.

你可以看到,大多数病案都发生在中非,以及印度的周边地区,尤其是印度南部

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The area around the Sea is basically semi-desert.

死海周边地区实际上是半沙漠化的。

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This means that all the area surrounding that Fairview Gardens was mainly farmland back in the 1950s, all growing food, probably a fair amount of it being eaten locally by people.

美景花园的整个周边地区,在上世纪50年代基本上都是耕地,都长着农作物,其中很大一部分被当地人消费掉

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The isolation of the Greek towns in the Dark Age gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south, and when I say the south I really mean Egypt and all around the eastern Aegean Sea.

在黑暗时代孤立希腊城镇,开始逐渐增加与东方和南方的接触,当我的南方,实际上指的是埃及,以及所有东爱琴海的周边地区

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Corinth always needs that kind of stuff, so we sell you our wheat, you sell us your pottery, you sell us good wine that we can't grow yet and maybe never will be able to grow in our neighborhood, so on and so forth.

科林斯很需要这些作物,所以我们销售给你们小麦,你们销售陶器,美酒给我们,这些我们暂且无法生产,而且我们周边地区也许永远无法生产这些,诸如此类的作物

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