In ancient Roman times, the Italian peninsula had great forest of fir preferred for warships, but scarcity was apparent as early as the early fourteenth century.

在古罗马时期，意大利半岛上有大面积的冷杉林，是建造军舰的首选材料，但是，冷杉的稀缺性早在14世纪早期就出现了。

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I am in the middle of the great forest in South America.

我现在是在南美洲这个大森林的中部。

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Hard by a great forest dwelt a wood-cutter with his wife, who had an only child, a little girl three years old.

大森林边住着一位樵夫和他的妻子。他们只有一个孩子，是个三岁的女孩。

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He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest.

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Typical forest fauna includes leopard (Panthera pardus) the lion (P. leo), the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), elephant (Loxodonta africana), the dwarf buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus) and the great forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni).

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NPR's staff and friends pretend that NPR isn't such a big deal, that it's just one creature in the great forest of talk radio, which happens to be funded--but only fractionally--by the federal government.

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As I rolled off the boat into heaving waters caused by constant huge Atlantic swells, I entered a great swaying underwater forest of kelp.

BBC: Torrey Canyon seabed returns to normal after oil spill