However, it should be kept in mind that many societies that knew of agriculture more or less consciously avoided it.

然而应该记住的是，许多对农业有所了解的社会都或多或少有意识地避免了它。

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The more I use the eraser, the less it gets.

我用的橡皮擦越多，它就变得越来越少。

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It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.

一个几乎普遍的真理是，工作上提升得越高，我们最初的那些工作技能实际上就用得越少。

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The other advantages of hair sheep include that it's more resistant to parasites, so they're less prone to infection."

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And I won't go through it, but what you can see is it's more or less, it is in fact, exponential.

我不想全讲一遍,但是你们可以看到。

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and it's more or less that. I don't want to spoil it in case anyone goes to see it.

差不多就是那样的。万一有人要去观看这部剧呢，我可不想毁了它。

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He aims to control it more tightly, make it more transparent and give it less money, so that he can spend more on social programmes.

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At present, Israel and America refuse to deal directly with Hamas even though it has recently won the mayoralties of a number of Gazan and West Bank towns and probably commands a third or more of the Palestinian national vote because, though it has more or less abided by a ceasefire brokered earlier this year, it has not disavowed violence and still refuses to recognise Israel.

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This fluid mercantile society was not necessarily less religious than medieval Europe, but it was less hierarchical and more concerned with secular objectives.

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