But transport remains expensive and settlements themselves are often sunk in mud.

但运输成本仍然很昂贵，而且整个定居点往往被淹没在泥泞当中。

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Manchhar Lake (also spelled Manchar) is typically bordered on the north by croplands and settlements.

曼查尔湖(也称曼切尔湖)北部平时是与农田和居民区交界。

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Two flash floods in the 1930s, in particular, burst through the manmade structures and washed away lives and settlements.

1930年两场突如其来的洪水，冲倒了人造建筑也冲走了人命和定居点。

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The aim of the Israeli operation in December and January was also to weaken Hamas, the Islamist group that seized power in Gaza after Israel withdrew its forces and settlements from the enclave.

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We begin to know more about three or four hundred years down the road, when there appear buildings and settlements in the world later inhabited by the Greeks, as we know, to which we give the name Mycenaean.

约三四百年之后当这块希腊人聚居的土地,出现了建筑和住宅群,我们才开始对它有了更多的了解,并将其命名为今天人人皆知的"迈锡尼文明"

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But in any event, this suggests that these settlements were established peacefully, not by a group coming in and conquering.

但无论如何也显示了,这些居住所是被和平地建成的，而不是由一个部族进入然后攻占。

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