过度放牧（这同样也被“传统的”耕作所广泛采用）导致了土壤浸蚀，并把肥沃的草原变成了沙漠。

Overgrazing (again, widely practised by "traditional" cultures) causes soil erosion and turns fertile pasture into desert.

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海登监狱摒弃了传统的监狱建材钢筋水泥，而是采用了砖石和木材，让整个建筑看起来和丛林非常和谐。

To avoid an institutional feel, exteriors are not concrete but made of bricks, galvanized steel and larch; the buildings seem to have grown organically from the woodlands.

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如果采用传统技术如轮作和堆肥为土壤补充氮和其他物质，就需要耕地也增长三倍了。

Using traditional techniques such as crop rotation, compost and manure to supply the soil with nitrogen and other minerals would have required a tripling of the area under cultivation.

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