通过研究这些化石，史密斯能够把英国土地所有的地层按相对的时间顺序排列起来。

By following the fossils, Smith was able to put all the strata of England's earth into relative temporal sequence.

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广州地铁建造用地的土地所有者所拥有的权利与纽约相比太少了。

Owners of land needed for subway construction in Guangzhou have few rights compared with those in New York.

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没有限制的完全保有的土地所有权。

Freehold ownership of land with no restriction to it.

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And if this myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.

如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的，那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权，建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。

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They would not be willing to take the risk without clear title to the land.

他们在明确土地所有权之前,是不愿意冒险的

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So how are we to account for the diversification of languages, the spread of different ethnic linguistic groups throughout the lands of the earth if we all come from one common creative moment, one common ancestor?

所以，如果我们都起源于同一个时刻，来源于,同一个祖先，那又要怎样解释语言的多样性，怎样解释,使用不同语言的族群遍布地球上的所有土地,这一现象呢？

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