他们正砍倒树木，推整土地。

They have been cutting down the trees and bulldozing the land.

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尽管乱砍滥伐是违法的人们还是砍倒树木。

People are cutting down trees even though it is illegal.

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为了保护树木，我们不应该再为了制作一次性筷子而砍倒树木。

In order to protect trees, we should not cut down trees for throwaway chopsticks.

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He carves down the forest, he begins to cultivate the land and he declares what you got to have for success in the South is "A house, some land and some niggers."

他命令奴隶们砍倒树木,他开始翻耕这片土地,同时他声称,在南方,成功就必须要有,"一栋房子,一片土地和一些黑奴"

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