If you're laying tiles, the floor will need to be levelled first.

你如果要铺瓷砖，得先整平地面。

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The site must be levelled before it is built upon.

建房前要先把地基垫平。

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This also meant many smaller ditches to be dug and more fields to be levelled.

这也意味着要挖许多小水渠和平整更多土地。

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The same charge can be levelled against those who fail to acknowledge that there are widely accepted business practices that are unethical, harmful and wrong.

ECONOMIST: In the pink

Experts say the some of the sloping site adjoining Mold Cemetery will be built up and levelled to accommodate 360 new burial plots.

BBC: Mold Cemetery extension to start as just six plots remain

And any move away from this levelled playing field can be perceived as a defection.

NEWYORKER: Little Strangers