I camped out the other night, and thought to just sleep under the stars, until I found a scorpion while clearing the ground.

另一个晚上我露宿郊外，正准备在群星下睡着的时候，突然发现一只蝎子正在附近游荡。

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In an attempt to provide a firm foundation for knowledge, he began his Meditations by clearing the philosophical ground through doubting all that could be doubted.

在试图为知识建立坚实基础的尝试中，他开始通过怀疑一切能被怀疑的对象来理清哲学立场，以这样的方式开始了《第一哲学沉思录》的创作。

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Each of these artists is engaged in an on-going, very personal search for what they feel to be correct, in line with which they are constantly clearing new ground.

艺术家们都参与到一场正在进行中的、非常个人化的、他们认为正确的探寻，这正与他们不断清扫的新领地相符合。

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Unconfirmed rumors on the ground say Hamas is clearing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

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Yet his ground-clearing is always refreshing.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary-art criticism

Military prosecutors say West followed up on that threat by taking the suspect outside, put him on the ground near a weapons clearing barrel and fired his 9 mm pistol into the barrel.

CNN: U.S. officer fined for harsh interrogation tactics

The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.

BBC: The three colours of Ibiza