They plan to mark it with a roar of bulldozers as building resumes in settlements in the West Bank.

他们计划用推土机的隆隆噪音来纪念这一伟大胜利，标志着约旦河西岸重启定居点修建工程。

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At its peak around AD 600, this city was one of the largest human settlements in the world.

在公元600年左右的鼎盛时期，这座城市是世界上规模最大的人类定居点之一。

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In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, many Western Pueblo settlements in what is now the southwestern United States may have possessed distinctly hierarchical organizational structures.

在14世纪和15世纪，许多位于现在美国西南部的西部普韦布洛定居点可能拥有明显的等级组织结构。

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In the late eighteen hundreds, white Americans expanded their settlements in the western part of the country.

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But in any event, this suggests that these settlements were established peacefully, not by a group coming in and conquering.

但无论如何也显示了,这些居住所是被和平地建成的，而不是由一个部族进入然后攻占。

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These new thirteenth century settlements, however, are in their material culture, that is to say their pots and their jars and their houses, entirely Canaanite.

然而这是十三世纪的新定居点，这是在他们的物质文化中，也就是说,他们的锅，陶罐和房屋都是迦南式的。

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"Merck is not going to pay a dime in settlements for years, " says Krensavage.

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Recent peace talks with the Palestinians were derailed over the issue of continued building in settlements.

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For them, even a few million in settlements or licensing fees could mean life-or-death.

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