It ends at the Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth, four hundred meters below the level of the Mediterranean Sea.

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And that is the highest point in Israel, it rises about 10,000 feet above sea level. The central mountain area, those are between 4000 and 10,000 feet above sea level.

那是以色列的最高点，它大约在海平面以上10000英尺，中央的山区，大约在海平面以上4000到10000英尺之间。

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That was, I should point out, maybe about ten miles from the sea.

我要指出的是,那里距海大约有十英里远

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We forget about the enormous trading vitality of Asia, even sea vitality and land vitality at the same time, but they are without any question by this point-- with the decline of the Spanish empire, which begins before this course-- the Dutch and the English.

我们先不考虑亚洲大量的贸易活动,包括同时的陆上和海上贸易,在十七世纪之前,随着西班牙帝国的衰退,欧洲最大的贸易实体,毫无疑问是荷兰和英国

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