如果我们承认人类对地球的操纵是一种破坏，我们也可以认为，人类的努力可以帮助我们在未来几个世纪建立一个破坏性较小的世界。

If we acknowledge that human manipulation of the Earth has been a destructive force, we can also imagine that human endeavours can help us build a less destructive world in the centuries to come.

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过度捕捞，再加上破坏性的捕捞方式，正在使鱼类灭绝，并破坏它们的生存环境。

Over-fishing, coupled with destructive fishing practices, is killing off the fish and ruining their environment.

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因此，海底矿物开采比起在陆地上进行的开采，破坏性就小了许多。陆上开采可能造成诸如削平山头，水银污染和水域破坏的恶性后果。

Seafloor mining might therefore be less destructive than mining on land, which brings such not-exactly-benign consequences as mountaintop removal, mercury pollution, and destruction of watersheds.

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It is both quiet and tranquil, at times It also powerful and destructive.

自然有时是宁静的安静的,但也是强大而有破坏性的。

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We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

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