来自纤维素质的先进生物燃料-植物废物和木头-更好，因为他们不直接同食物竞争，但他们仍然需要适度肥沃的土地来生长。

Advanced biofuels from cellulosic material - plant waste and wood - are better, because they don't compete directly with food, but they still need reasonably fertile land in which to grow.

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然而在这片崭新而肥沃的稀树大草原之上，瞪羚的数量十分充足，往往常年累月停留在同一地方不迁移，因此人类也随之定居下来。

But in the new, lusher savannah, gazelle were plentiful and they tended to stay in one place throughout the year, so the humans settled down with them.

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新的烹饪方法层出不穷，咖啡变得更好喝了。 我们正在经过的肥沃平原上，产出了许多夏敦埃酒。

New kinds of cooking have thrived, the coffee has become drinkable and chardonnay flourishes on the fertile plain across which we were trundling.

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In Mesopotamia they usually didn't need to because the richness of the soil and so on.

在美索不达米亚,由于土壤肥沃及其他因素,通常是不需要施肥的

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