The rats arrived along with the settlers, and in just a few years, Hunt and Lipo calculate, they would have overrun the island.
随着定居者的到来,老鼠也来到了这座岛。亨特和利普计算,仅用几年的时间,老鼠就会在这座岛上泛滥。
They would have prevented the reseeding of the slow-growing palm trees and thereby doomed Rapa Nui's forest, even without the settlers' campaign of deforestation.
即使没有定居者的滥伐森林运动,他们也会阻止生长缓慢的棕榈树重新播种,从而毁灭拉帕努伊的森林。
Unfortunately, it took the explorers and the settlers who followed only a few decades to decimate a large part of these resources.
不幸的是,仅仅几十年以后,探险家和随后而来的定居者就摧毁了大部分的资源。
Natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
当地人赋予它稳定性和延续性;但是定居者赋予了它激情。
Moreover, Hunt and Lipo are convinced that the settlers were not wholly responsible for the loss of the island's trees.
此外,亨特和利波确信,定居者对岛上树木的损失并不承担全部责任。
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
通勤者让这座城市像潮水一样躁动不安;当地人赋予它稳固和连续性;但定居者给了它激情。
Although the settlers generally treated each other well.
尽管殖民者通常相互之间关系很好。
Many of the settlers fell prey to these infections and died shortly after.
许多定居者成了牺牲品,这些人感染疾病后不久死亡。
By April 1676, however, the settlers had defeated the Narrangansett and killed Canonchet.
但到1676年4月,殖民者们已经击败了纳拉甘塞特人,并杀死了Canonchet。
The settlers punched and kicked the Palestinian photographers and grabbed one of their cameras.
四名定居者对巴勒斯坦摄影记者拳打脚踢,并抢走了其中一人的照相机。
Barack Obama welcomed the move, but the settlers said that private-sector building work will continue.
巴拉克·奥巴马对这一决定表示欢迎,但是定居者称私营建筑工程将会继续。
The longer the settlers have to dig in, the harder it will be to displace them under a final agreement.
而以色列定居者在此扎根时间越长,达成最终协议后迁移他们的难度就越大。
Eventually, the settlers abandoned the principle of Shared labor and contracted out to private work crews.
最终,拓荒者放弃了共同劳动的原则,改由私人组织承包。
The settlers say disrupting the olive harvest is a legitimate response to repeated Palestinian vandalism and attacks.
以色列定居者说,干扰巴勒斯坦人收获橄榄是对巴勒斯坦人一再发动破坏和袭击的最合理的还击。
The settlers come down the hill from the outpost, mostlyon foot, but occasionally on horseback or in tractors or 4x4s.
定居者住在山上的居民点里,他们基本上步行下山,偶尔骑马、乘拖拉机或者是四驱车。
She did go on to save his life once, when Powhatan Indians wanted his head, which was how she earned the respect of the settlers.
她的确救过他,在波瓦坦印第安人想取其首级时,这也为她赢得了殖民者的尊敬。
If the settlers need more space, they could move to Israel proper; America could perhaps offer cash incentives to help them do so.
但如果定居者需要更大的空间,他们可以转移到以色列本土,美国可以向他们提供经济刺激来帮助他们。
The settlers would be sent supplies from Earth, but would go on the understanding that it would be too costly to make the return trip.
移居者将得到发自地球的给养,但是他们先要理解,返程之旅过于昂贵。
The settlers say Israel is making a mistake. That it's handing victory to the Palestinian militants who have been attacking Gush Katif for years.
定居者称以色列正在犯下一个错误,它这是在将胜利的果实交给数年来一直对古什卡蒂夫发动攻击的巴勒斯坦武装分子。
The housing ministry has recruited hundreds of security people who, says a guard, are empowered to arrest and shoot on sight to protect the settlers.
住房部已招募了数以百计的安保人员,根据一个保安,这些人为保护定居者,有权逮捕权和射杀权。
To hear some critics tell it, things have been going south in this country since the cruel winter in Jamestown, Va., in 1609, when most of the settlers died.
听听批评者是怎么说的吧,自从1609年弗吉尼亚州詹姆·斯顿那个残酷的冬天,大部分定居者死后,美国就在走下坡路。
Working fast, unnoticed by Palestinian landowners in the nearby Arab village of al-Mughayir, the settlers cut down nearly 200 olive trees, of which 70 belonged to Mr Abu Awad.
在躲过一个叫al-Mughayir的阿拉伯村庄附近的果园种植者的注意之后,这些破坏者迅速砍到200多棵橄榄树,其中有70棵是Abu Awad先生的。
Mr Netanyahu's inflexibility over the settlers may have got him out of a political jam; it also militates against the peace that would guarantee the Jewish state's long-term survival.
内塔尼亚胡在定居点问题上的顽固不化也许会导致他退出政坛;同时对保障犹太国长久生存的和平进程产生不利影响。
The Wampanoag and other tribes made a stand against the Europeans' continuing territorial expansion, and in December 1675 the settlers launched an attack on the previously neutral Narragansetts.
万帕诺亚格和其他部落对欧洲持续的领土扩张进行了抵抗,在1675年,殖民者们对之前保持中立的纳拉甘塞特人发起了进攻。
The Wampanoag and other tribes made a stand against the Europeans' continuing territorial expansion, and in December 1675 the settlers launched an attack on the previously neutral Narragansetts.
万帕诺亚格和其他部落对欧洲持续的领土扩张进行了抵抗,在1675年,殖民者们对之前保持中立的纳拉甘塞特人发起了进攻。
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