JUST east of downtown Irvine, in southern California, a bucolic landscape is under construction.

在加利福尼亚州南部，欧文市(Irvine)市区的东部，正在建造一副田园般的风景。

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At the time, park sponsors wanted to protect the wild and scenic landscape from unregulated logging, mining, and railroad construction.

彼时，公园的主办方意图借此保护处于无规则采伐、矿业开掘和铁路营建威胁下的这一荒野胜景。

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Ironically, one of the worst times for erosion is during home and landscape construction.

具有讽刺意味的侵蚀最严重的时期之一，是在家庭和景观建设。

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The sixth self-made female Chinese billionaire is He Qiaonv, who founded landscape architecture and interior construction firm Beijing Orient Landscape.

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Also disappeared from the landscape are the big tax-equity investors such as Lehman Brothers and hedge funds that underwrote windmill construction to capture their favorable tax credits to offset other gains.

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