All the land between the water on the left side and a long, long way has been reclaimed from the sea.

天水之间广袤的大地在你左边,公路在填海而形成的土地上无限延伸

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What they're doing is they're reclaiming the land from the sea.

他们所做的是围海造地

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How much land do they reclaim from the sea?

他们通过围海造地扩大了多少面积呢

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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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