早期建筑物为木质结构，已经消失殆尽。

Early buildings were made of wood and have perished.

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在早期的研究中，幸福被定义为感觉良好。

Happiness was defined, as in the earlier study, by feeling good.

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在20世纪40年代早期，农民们沐浴在以化学品为基础的集约农业的光辉下，贪心地把杀虫剂当作增加作物产量的一种可靠方法。

In the early 1940s, basking in the glory of chemical-based intensive agriculture, the farmers avidly took to pesticides as a sure measure to boost crop yield.

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In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

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The time was in the early 70s, so factory farming was not well-known, was not as dominated as it is today, but it still existed.

那时是70年代早期，工厂化养殖并不为很多人所知,也不如今天这样占主导地位，但当时已经出现了这种方式。

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It's juicy evidence that provides for Milton's intense fondness for - we might even think of it as a passion for - this earlier English poet.

它用大量的证据表明了弥尔顿,-我们可以视其为一种激情,对于早期英文诗歌的热爱。

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