Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

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I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

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He released the arrow, it tore her belly, It cut through her insides, splitting the heart.

他放箭刺穿了她的肚皮，箭刺破她的内脏，心脏也破裂了。

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It's going along.At a certain point-- Let's draw our amoeba splitting,right?

到了某个阶段-,我们来画它进行分裂？

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So the Diadokhoi, the Greek plural of Diadochi, as we often refer to it, ended up splitting his army into four parts and four dynasties descending from the four successors.

所以这四个Diadokhoi，也就是Diadochi的复数形式，我们通常用这个词，最终将他的军队分割为四个部分,由此产生了四个王朝。

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