That would be a depressing end to the story of habitable zones, if not for a series of amazing findings that life on Earth is not what everyone thought it was.

寻找地外生命的故事似乎又要惨淡收场，但一系列关于地球上生命的惊人发现告诉我们它们和人们一直以来的认为有所不同。

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So in the second creation story beginning in Genesis 2:4, We read that the first human is formed when God fashions it from the dust of the earth or clay.

在《创世纪》第2章第4节开始的第二个创世故事，我们看到第一个人类形成,他上帝用尘土或黏土将人捏造成形。

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We can do that -- for that is the story of human progress; that’s the hope of all the world; and at this moment of challenge, that must be our work here on Earth.

我们可以做到——因为这是人类进步的历程；这是全世界的希望；在当前面临挑战的时刻，这必须是我们在全球从事的工作。

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It is based on the story of a fairy from heaven who comes to Earth and marries a cowhand on a farm.

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It's from that story we have the idea that mankind is responsible or has dominion over the animals and the earth.

从这个故事中，我们感到,人类是重要的，人类统领着,其他动物和整个地球。

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There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.

科幻作家Orson，Scott，Card写了一个短故事，该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中，我们，在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。

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One was Yellow Earth, a story about a wandering communist soldier who travels to a farming village in northwestern China to learn folk songs as part of a propaganda effort to mobilize peasants against the Japanese.

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And every single day I walk into the Oval Office, and for all the days of my life, I will always remember that in no other nation on Earth could my story be possible, could your stories be possible.

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It is often said that you do not need to travel to the ends of the earth to find a good story.

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