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If an ocean floor tectonic plate meets the edge of a continent and they push against each other, the heavier one sinks down and goes under the other one.

如果一个海底构造板块与大陆边缘接触并相互挤压，较重的板块下沉到另一个的下面。

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In time,they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

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That is to say, discover an entirely new continent, a new world, so to speak, the new world of Machiavelli.

也就是说发现了全新的大陆，全新的世界，属于马奇亚维利的全新世界。

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Milton had written in Areopagitica that he had actually met Galileo on his journey, when Milton was a young man and Galileo was a very old man, through the continent.

弥尔顿在中已经写到,他实际上在旅途中曾经遇到过伽利略，那还是当他是一个年轻人，而伽利略已然老去的，一次环陆旅行中。

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Just imagine what Americans experienced when they fanned out from 13 colonies to settle a continent.

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It calls to mind mosquitoes on a continent tragically ravaged by those malaria-bearing insects.

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Denounced by a drunk teenager, the Golovins are resettled a continent away in Augean conditions.

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